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Masked federal officers wrangled New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander and placed him in handcuffs inside an immigration courthouse in Manhattan on Tuesday.
The city’s elected financial watchdog who is among Democratic candidates for mayor entered the public building to observe immigration hearings when he was accosted by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers as well as FBI and Treasury Department agents wearing face coverings.
His arrest comes days after federal agents roughed up California Senator Alex Padilla and handcuffed him on the ground as he was asking questions to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a press conference about protests in his state.
As agents moved in to pull Lander away from the hallway, he shouted out “show me your warrant, show me your badge.”
“I will let go if you show me a judicial warrant,” he can be heard saying in footage of his arrest. “I would like to see the warrant, and then I will let go.”
This is a developing story
