When the family of Jabez Chakraborty called 911 in Queens on January 26, they asked for an ambulance. Jabez, a young man who has lived with schizophrenia for many years, was in crisis. What arrived instead were police officers. Within minutes, Jabez had been shot four times in front of his family. After four surgeries to try to save his life, several days on a ventilator, and now a long road to physical recovery as he remains hospitalized, Jabez has been charged—despite the pleas and objections of Mayor Zohran Mamdani—with attempted assault for his reaction to the NYPD’s incursion into his home.

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