(17 Jun 2025)
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New York – 17 June 2025
1. Various of Brad Lander walking out of federal building after being released from ICE detention, New York Governor Kathy Hochul walks with him, UPSOUND: “We’re proud of you, Brad. We’re proud of you. Thanks for being out there, Brad! Thank you, Brad! Thank you!“
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Brad Lander, (D) New York City Comptroller and Mayoral Candidate:
(Reporter: “But what DHS put out was that you put your hands on a federal officer and you were being charged with obstructing justice.”)
“Seriously?”
3. Sign that reads “I HEART IMMIGRANT NY”
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Brad Lander, (D) New York City Comptroller and Mayoral Candidate:
“I mean you guys all saw it on video so you know exactly what happened and I think probably on advice of counsel I will not characterize the events but I certainly did not assault an officer.”
5. Sign that reads “STOP THE WAR ON IMMIGRANTS”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Brad Lander, (D) New York City Comptroller and Mayoral Candidate:
“This is a critical time to have a mayor who will stand up to ICE and stand up to Donald Trump and insist on due process and the laws of this city. This is a sanctuary city. I was proud to co-sponsor those laws and I’m gonna go I’m going to show up and defend them and partly why I’m running for mayor is that New Yorkers deserve better than a mayor like Eric Adams who sold New Yorkers out in a deal for his own pardon with Donald Trump and New Yorkers deserved better in a mayor than Andrew Cuomo, who on that debate stage last week, when I asked him, why did you deny those immigrant subway cleaners who risked their lives during COVID, the prevailing wage and the healthcare they deserve, all he could think about was… ‘Um hey were they…’ and i couldn’t believe he called them illegal and you could tell in his head all he was worried about was would it reflect badly on him.”
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Brad Lander, (D) New York City Comptroller and Mayoral Candidate:
“I am going to keep coming back here week after week. Until immigrant rights are protected and I do want us to do that in a way that reflects the best traditions of non-violent accompaniment and bearing witness, because it is important to show up and accompany people and bear witness and do what we can to prevent deportations, and we are not going to give Donald Trump and his goons any excuse for ratcheting up violence and conflict in our city.”
8. Wide of crowd chanting, UPSOUND: “Free them all! Free them all!”
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Brad Lander, (D) New York City Comptroller and Mayoral Candidate:
“When immigrant rights are under attack, what do we do?”
(Crowd: “Stand up! Fight back!”)
“When immigrant rights are under attack, what do we do?”
(Crowd: “Stand up! Fight back!”)
10. Wide of Brad Lander in the middle of the crowd walking out of the rally
STORYLINE:
New York City Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested by federal agents at an immigration court Tuesday after he linked arms with a person authorities were attempting to detain.
A reporter with The Associated Press and other journalists witnessed Lander’s arrest at a federal building in Manhattan, the latest confrontation between U.S. agents and a Democratic politician objecting to the Trump administration’s effort to jail and deport mass numbers of immigrants. The immigrant Lander escorted out of the courtroom was also arrested.
“You’re obstructing," an agent told Lander.
“I’m not obstructing, I’m standing right here in the hallway,” Lander said as he was being handcuffed.
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