Overview
- City Hall says the footage from the Jan. 26 Briarwood incident will be released Tuesday after the mayor reviewed it and met with Jabez Chakraborty’s family.
- Officials note the accelerated timeline is unusual, as city policy generally allows up to 30 days for release of body-worn camera video.
- NYPD says Chakraborty advanced with a large kitchen knife despite repeated orders to drop it, officers fired, then rendered first aid including a tourniquet.
- The family says they called for an ambulance and alleges improper questioning about immigration and phone seizures; the NYPD denies immigration inquiries and says phones were turned over with signed consent.
- The Queens DA is investigating, with preliminary reports indicating prosecutors have considered an attempted-murder charge, while Chakraborty remains hospitalized in critical condition and the mayor presses his community-safety reform plan as B-HEARD is not active in the local precinct.