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Mamdani just revealed his utter ignorance of how to handle the violent mentally ill

Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently visited the family of Jabez Chakraborty, the man shot by a police officer in Queens as he attacked him and his partner with a 13-inch carving knife.

After his thorough legal, medical and psychological analysis of the case, the mayor opined that Chakraborty should not be arrested or prosecuted, that he needed mental-health treatment rather than jail and that his handcuffs should be removed. 

Thankfully, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz and a Queens County grand jury disagreed, and had Chakraborty arraigned on an indictment charging him with first-degree attempted assault and possession of a weapon.

The mayor then repeated that Chakraborty should not be charged.

Mamdani’s statements and actions here display a disturbing lack of knowledge about reality and how the criminal-justice system works.

The mayor doesn’t get to decide who gets prosecuted; the district attorney does.

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The mayor doesn’t get to decide what caused Chakraborty to act as he did; that’s for the police and DA to investigate.

The mayor doesn’t get to deem Chakraborty no longer a threat to others or himself based upon his conversation with Chakraborty,........

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