A man shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Thursday in the Bronx cannot be deported unless officials obtain a court order, a judge ruled Friday.

Protests erupted after the man, later identified as a 28-year-old Dominican national, was shot during a traffic stop in New York City.

‘Our officers, using their training and believing that their life and the life of the partners and the general public were in danger, used their training and fired weapons.’

Oscar Belgal was shot after refusing to comply with lawful orders from ICE officers who were trying to arrest him, according to the Department of Homeland Security. He was hospitalized for treatment and later released.

U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken said in a two-page order that Belgal could not be deported without a court order while he challenged his detention.

He also said Belgal could not be transferred outside of the Southern or Eastern Districts of New York or the District of New Jersey without a court order.

Officers had tried to box in Belgal with their vehicles during the operation, but the man accelerated the car before one officer shot at him.

“Our officers, using their training and believing that their life and the life of the partners and the general public were in danger, used their training and fired weapons,” senior ICE official Marcos Charles said.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) has been condemning ICE in numerous statements since the shooting.

“I am angry tonight,” he wrote on social media. “Because today ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.”

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DHS said the migrant had been previously arrested for assault, robbery, drug possession, and weapons possession. He also had been convicted of grand larceny.

Anti-ICE critics were outraged to learn that there was a 5-year-old boy in the vehicle during the shooting. He was unharmed.

“Regardless of whether or not someone has a criminal history, it is not lawful and it is not OK to shoot a father in an afternoon with his son in the back seat,” said immigration attorney Harold Solis of Make the Road New York to reporters on Friday. “That is not how we resolve legal disputes in this country. We resolve them in buildings like these, in courtrooms.”

Oetken was appointed to the court by former President Barack Obama.

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A blogger known as “Rooster” was found guilty of harassment after he admitted to sending a sexually explicit image of the Shrek cartoon character to an Ohio politician.

Eight jurors in Lake County, Ohio, took only 30 minutes to find Donald “D.J.” Byrnes guilty of telecommunications harassment for texting the image to state Sen. Jerry Cirino, a Republican.

‘This wasn’t a free speech issue; this was a harassment statute that I believed he was in violation of.’

The blogger faced up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for the offense, but a judge decided to sentence Byrnes to pay only $200 on top of court costs.

The offensive messages included a meme of the Shrek cartoon character holding his genitals and two messages taunting the powerful lawmaker after he dropped out of the race for Ohio Senate president.

“This wasn’t a free speech issue; this was a harassment statute that I believed he was in violation of,” Cirino said after the verdict.

Prosecutors had asked for a no-contact order against Byrnes as well, but the judge refused to grant the request.

Byrnes’ defense in court rested on his free speech rights and the accusation that Cirino was using his political influence to retaliate against his enemy.

Cirino denied the allegations despite his donation of at least $2,500 to the judge who signed the arrest warrant for the blogger. A different judge presided over the actual case.

“I would never do that. I respect my position in the Senate way too much to ever let that happen,” he said to WEWS-TV.

Cirino had also contacted one of the witnesses in the trial in what appeared to be an annoyed message, but he denied to WEWS that he was doing anything except expressing his surprise.

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Byrnes let out a laugh of surprise when he heard the jury’s decision, WEWS reported.

The Rooster plans to file an appeal, according to WEWS.

“The First Amendment protects the right to criticize government officials, even in crude or vulgar terms,” said Aaron Terr, the director of public policy for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, on social media. “If a single electronic communication that annoys or alarms the recipient can amount to criminal harassment, that’s bad news for a lot of social media users!”

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