Mamdani calls on DA to not prosecute mentally ill man shot by police during knife attack

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said connected Tuesday that helium does not judge the Queens territory lawyer should prosecute a mentally sick antheral who was changeable by constabulary arsenic helium ran toward officers with a knife, arguing that the idiosyncratic needs intelligence wellness attraction instead.

Jabez Chakraborty, 22, was holding a ample room weapon and charged astatine the officers who responded to the exigency telephone from the household connected Jan. 26, NYPD officials said. The officers repeatedly told him to driblet it arsenic they attempted to de-escalate the concern earlier 1 serviceman fired respective times, striking Chakraborty, who was past taken to a infirmary successful captious condition.

The household had called 911 to study that Chakraborty was throwing solid astatine his location connected Parsons Blvd. successful Briarwood, NYPD officials said, according to the New York Daily News.

After the officers responded to the home, Chakraborty charged them with the knife, according to the NYPD. The officers repeatedly instructed him to driblet the limb and attempted to isolate him successful the home’s surviving country by closing a solid doorway betwixt them and Chakraborty. But constabulary said helium managed to unfastened the doorway and overwhelm the officers with the weapon extended.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani said helium does not judge the Queens territory lawyer should prosecute a mentally sick antheral who was changeable by constabulary arsenic helium ran toward officers with a knife. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The officers did not gully their guns until Chakraborty pulled the knife, NYPD officials said.

The officers provided archetypal assistance and attempted to halt the bleeding pursuing the shooting, according to the agency. He was past rushed to the hospital, wherever helium is successful captious but unchangeable condition.

The household had asked for exigency aesculapian workers to respond to the incidental alternatively than police, the household said successful a statement. The household said Chakraborty was changeable astatine slightest 4 times.

"We called for help," the household said. "We called 911 for an ambulance to supply aesculapian attraction for our son, who was successful affectional distress. We did not telephone the police. Instead of aesculapian responders, the NYPD arrived and changeable our lad aggregate times close successful beforehand of us."

Jabez Chakraborty, 22, was holding a ample room weapon and charged astatine the officers who responded to the exigency telephone from the family. (NYPD)

The Queens territory attorney's bureau is investigating the incident, with preliminary reports suggesting prosecutors were looking astatine perchance seeking an indictment for attempted murder.

But Mamdani, who has viewed the assemblage camera footage, said the antheral needs intelligence wellness attraction alternatively of facing transgression charges.

"In viewing this footage, it is wide to maine that what Jabez needs is intelligence wellness treatment, not transgression prosecution from a territory attorney, and we are talking astir a household that is enduring the benignant of symptom that nary household should and an idiosyncratic that has lived with schizophrenia for galore years," the politician said astatine a quality league connected Tuesday.

"A idiosyncratic experiencing a intelligence wellness occurrence does not ever person to beryllium served archetypal oregon exclusively by a constabulary officer. It is important for america to person each of the options available," helium added.

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The officers repeatedly told the antheral to driblet the limb arsenic they attempted to de-escalate the concern earlier 1 serviceman fired respective times. (Susan Watts/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

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The politician besides said helium had met with Chakraborty's family, who had criticized him for his archetypal effect to the shooting. Mamdani said hours aft the shooting that constabulary had "encountered an idiosyncratic wielding a knife," and that helium was "grateful to the archetypal responders who enactment themselves connected the enactment each time to support our communities safe."

"After each this, we saw Mayor Mamdani’s connection applauding the NYPD officers that changeable our son, threatened and lied to us, and kept america from seeing our lad for implicit 24 hours," the family's connection read. "Why is the politician applauding officers who recklessly astir killed our lad successful beforehand of us?"