Bodycam shows NYPD officer shooting man with knife as Mamdani calls for no criminal charges

The New York City Police Department released assemblage camera footage showing the infinitesimal an serviceman changeable a mentally sick antheral who was allegedly charging him with a weapon amid calls from NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani for intelligence wellness attraction alternatively of transgression charges.

Jabez Chakraborty, 22, was holding a ample room weapon and charged astatine officers who responded to an exigency telephone from his household successful Queens connected Jan. 26, according to the NYPD.

The footage, released by the NYPD connected Tuesday, shows an serviceman entering the surviving country of the home, wherever Chakraborty was allegedly brandishing a knife. Officers are heard attempting to de-escalate the situation, repeatedly ordering him to "put the weapon down," but Chakraborty continued to determination toward the officer, according to the NYPD.

A pistillate is seen successful the footage attempting to artifact Chakraborty with her arm, but helium continued to measurement guardant portion carrying the knife. The footage shows the NYPD serviceman reposition himself successful the home's vestibule and closing the doorway betwixt himself and the surviving room.

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Newly released NYPD bodycam footage shows an serviceman shooting a antheral allegedly carrying a weapon during an exigency effect wrong a Queens home. (NYPD)

According to the NYPD, Chakraborty past pushed done the doorway and stepped toward the serviceman with the knife.

The serviceman discharged his weapon, hitting Chakraborty 4 times. He was taken to the hospital, wherever helium remains successful intensive attraction successful unchangeable but captious condition.

The clip released by the NYPD begins with audio of a 911 telephone from "a civilian witness" reporting that Chakraborty was experiencing a intelligence wellness occurrence and had thrown a solid against the wall. The caller requested EMS, not police, asking for an ambulance truthful that Chakraborty could beryllium taken involuntarily to the hospital.

The incidental is being investigated by the Queens District Attorney’s office, with preliminary reports suggesting prosecutors are looking astatine perchance seeking an indictment for attempted murder.

Mamdani, however, said astatine a quality league connected Tuesday that Chakraborty should person intelligence wellness attraction and not look 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.

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

Mamdani said helium met with Chakraborty's family, who had criticized him for his archetypal effect to the shooting. The politician 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."

Chakraborty's household released a connection Wednesday accusing instrumentality enforcement of causing the concern to "escalate rapidly and unnecessarily."

"Rather than de-escalate the situation, the serviceman alternatively further escalated by drafting his weapon and yelling orders astatine Jabez," the household wrote. "Within a infinitesimal of NYPD’s arrival, Jabez was changeable aggregate times and astir killed, portion helium was calmly eating nutrient conscionable minutes earlier."

The household called connected the Queens DA’s bureau to "drop the prosecution against our son," and for the NYPD to merchandise further assemblage camera footage from the incident.

The household argued that constabulary officers should not beryllium responding to aesculapian enactment calls.

The NYPD released bodycam video showing the moments starring up to a constabulary shooting during a intelligence wellness situation response. (NYPD)

"Given our experience, and that of galore different families, we telephone connected the Mayor for systems wherever we tin telephone for responders who are not police," the household wrote. "We telephone for changes wherever the needs of families successful the aftermath of specified incidents are centered alternatively than further traumatized implicit and over."

Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry said successful a connection to Fox News Digital that the assemblage camera footage "makes it wide that these constabulary officers walked into an unpredictable, fast-moving and unsafe situation."

"There was nary clip oregon abstraction for them to de-escalate the concern earlier they were forced to act," helium added. "They did their occupation professionally and with restraint nether unspeakable circumstances."

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Fox News Digital has reached retired to the NYPD for comment.

Fox News Digital Landon Mion contributed to this report.