Overview
- Body-worn camera footage shows Jabez Chakraborty pick up a kitchen knife, advance toward officers despite repeated commands to drop it, and an officer firing four shots after Chakraborty pushed through a door.
- The NYPD also released 911 audio in which a family member requested an ambulance and involuntary transport, told the dispatcher he was not violent and had no weapons, and was informed that both police and EMS would respond.
- The Queens district attorney’s office is investigating and is reported to be weighing possible charges, while the NYPD’s Force Investigation Division continues its internal review.
- Chakraborty remains hospitalized in intensive care after multiple surgeries; his family seeks an end to prosecution and alleges phone seizures and immigration questioning, which the NYPD says were at the DA’s request and denies, respectively.
- Mamdani is using the case to push a clinician-led crisis response through a proposed Department of Community Safety, as police union leaders defend the officers’ actions as necessary in a fast-moving situation.