Should be charged with obstruction.
A New York City councilman promised to remain “defiant” after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with a public demonstration that blocked an ambulance carrying a Trinidad and Tobago native detained by ICE.
Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez (D), who represents Washington Heights, Fort George and Inwood, was arrested earlier this year for blocking a vehicle transporting Ravi Ragbir from a downtown federal building.
On Wednesday, Rodriguez – one of 18 arrested in the January incident near Centre and Worth Streets in Manhattan – entered his plea before criminal court Judge Herbert Moses, the New York Daily News reported.
Rodriguez was one of several people who accompanied Ragbir to that routine check-in with ICE officials. Ragbir was subsequently arrested by the authorities and faced deportation back to Trinidad and Tobago.
Ragbir was escorted from the building in an ambulance, which was then blocked by Rodriguez and others.
Rodriguez told the court he will continue to fight “against unjustified [Immigration & Customs Enforcement] policy made by President Trump.”