US EditionNYPD Shooting of Mentally Ill Man Fuels Mamdani Push for Mental Health Response
Mayor Mamdani calls for dropping attempted murder charges and advocates for specialized mental health crisis responders amid the shooting of a 22-year-old man in Queens.
- On Tuesday, the NYPD released bodycam footage showing Chakraborty grabbing a knife and advancing past a closed door inside his Queens home, and on Wednesday, the 911 call was released.
- On Jan. 26, a Chakraborty family member called 911 requesting involuntary transportation in an ambulance; the NYPD says such calls automatically trigger police response.
- Bodycam footage shows officers repeatedly ordering Chakraborty to drop the knife as he advanced past a closed door, while David Sarni, retired NYPD detective and John Jay College professor, said officers had 'almost no time to do'.
- The Chakraborty family called for non-police responders, saying officers 'caused the situation to escalate quickly and unnecessarily,' and Mamdani responded, `I think that the questions at the heart of our pursuit of the Department of Community Safety are looking to answer exactly what mental health crisis response should look like.`
- Amid renewed scrutiny, this week's releases have generated immediate fallout and intensified debate about mental-health crisis response and the Department of Community Safety proposal.
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City Effort to Dispatch Mental Health Workers Ends in Police Response 86% of the Time
Reacting to the police shooting of Jabez Chakraborty, Mayor Mamdani plans to speed up the expansion of community responders, but a CITY analysis of existing efforts found that 911 dispatchers call in cops in the vast majority of cases.
NYC Police Shooting Mental Health Crisis Sparks Outrage
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is calling for expanded mental health services instead of criminal charges following a police-involved shooting in Queens involving a man experiencing a psychiatric crisis. The incident occurred on January 26, when officers from the New York City Police Department responded to an emergency call from a family reporting a mental health episode inside their home. Body camera footage released this week shows office…
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The Blaze‘Political theater’: Mamdani defends knife-wielding suspect who charged at police
In Queens, New York, Jabez Chakraborty was shot by law enforcement following a call from his family involving a mental and emotional distress crisis.Bodycam footage from officers shows an immediate act of aggression after they enter the home on January 26 as Chakraborty charges officers with a large kitchen knife.'I’m grateful to the first responders who put themselves on the line each day to keep our communities safe.'New York Police Department…
Pulse-Pounding Body Cam Footage Shows the Moment NYPD Officer Shoots Knife-Wielding Man in Self-Defense - NYC Mayor Mamdani Meets with Perp and Demands He Face NO CHARGES
Terrifying bodycam footage emerged this week showing the moment an NYPD officer shot a person in self-defense, prompting an outlandish reaction from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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