In 2024 Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels were involved in controversy after they physically accosted a man who they wrongly accused of being a “migrant” and a shoplifter. The altercation unfolded on live television as Sliwa and the Guardian Angels were being interviewed by Fox News commentator Sean Hannity. The man who they accosted was in fact a New York City resident and not a migrant. The police found no evidence that he had been shoplifting.