On Tuesday evening, the New York Police Department released the body camera footage of Officer Tyree White showing the moments leading up to the Queens cop shooting 22-year-old Jabez Chakraborty on January 26, less than a minute after entering his home, after Chakraborty's family called 911 and requested an ambulance because their relative was experiencing a mental health crisis.
Now, Chakraborty's family is calling on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to stop the NYPD from responding to mental health crisis calls, which the mayor says has underscored the need for the City agency he pitched during his campaign that would allow him to do so: the Department of Community Safety.
In the actual footage from White's body camera, White and his partner walk through the snow to the Chakraborty family's front door at 10:30 a.m.. "Ever since I've been watching videos, I don't stand by the door," White can be heard saying, after he knocks. Then, a woman, one of Chakraborty's relatives, answers the door and lets the officers in, after confirming that she called 911. Chakraborty is in the kitchen; when he sees the officers enter through the home's mud room, he charges toward them with a knife in his hand while the same woman who answered the door tries to hold him back.