In the quiet hours of a New York City night, two brave detectives—public servants who put their lives on the line to keep our streets safe—were left bleeding and in pain. Not because of some delay in traffic, not because of a lack of space in the emergency room, but because doctors and nurses at NYU Langone’s Cobble Hill hospital refused to treat them. Why? Because they thought the detectives were immigration agents.
Two NYPD officers, wounded while making an arrest, walked into an American hospital seeking medical help. But instead of getting the care they needed, they were met with suspicion, hostility, and rejection. Nurses and doctors accused them of working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. And based on that false assumption, they refused to help.
This is not just a mistake. This is a disgrace. It is a betrayal of the values that once defined our nation—a betrayal of duty, of honor, and of the law itself.
Hospitals in America are supposed to be places where politics stops at the door. Every doctor and nurse swears an oath—the Hippocratic Oath—to do no harm and to treat every patient with compassion and care. There is also a federal law, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA, which requires hospitals to give emergency medical care to anyone who needs it, no matter who they are.
But at NYU Langone, ideology took over where duty should have stood. The medical staff chose politics over professionalism. They chose prejudice over healing. And in doing so, they put lives at risk.
This wasn’t just a failure of judgment—it was a crime. And those who allowed it to happen must be held accountable.
ICE WATCH: NYU Langone's Cobble Hill ER refused to treat three NYPD detectives after they were attacked by a suspect because staff falsely accused them of being with ICE. Eventually after disarming the plainclothes detectives they were treated. The staff violated the Hippocratic… pic.twitter.com/asFylfxWtN
— @amuse (@amuse) January 22, 2026
What does it say about our country that police officers—whose only “crime” was wearing plain clothes and carrying a badge—were treated like enemies? What does it say when the very people we rely on to protect our communities can’t count on being protected themselves when they’re in need?
It says that something is deeply broken.
This is the result of years of leftist propaganda against law enforcement and immigration officials. The radical left has spent years demonizing ICE agents, calling them “fascists” and “stormtroopers,” even though they are simply enforcing the law. Now that hatred has spread like a poison, turning medical professionals into political activists—activists who are willing to abandon their oath and let fellow Americans suffer.
The men and women of law enforcement deserve better. They deserve respect, not rejection. They deserve care, not contempt. And when they are injured in the line of duty, they deserve to be treated like heroes—not like criminals.
Let us be clear: this is not just a New York problem. This is a warning to the entire nation. If we allow this kind of behavior to go unchecked, if we excuse it in the name of politics, then we are not far from becoming a country where your life depends on your beliefs, not your humanity.
President Trump has made it clear: we are restoring law and order in this country. That must include holding accountable those who defy their professional duties and endanger others in the name of ideology. The Department of Justice and state medical boards must investigate this incident fully. Every individual involved should face disciplinary action, up to and including the loss of their medical license.
America must be a nation of laws, not ideologies. A nation where police officers are honored, not hated. A nation where hospitals heal, not harm.
We owe it to every man and woman in uniform. We owe it to ourselves. And we owe it to the future of this great country.
