Mamdani Gets Torched For Painting ‘Would Be Cop Assassin’ as a Victim [WATCH]

Batya Ungar-Sargon sharply criticized progressive public safety policies following a New York City incident in which an NYPD officer shot a man who charged at police with a large knife during a reported psychotic episode, arguing that the city’s leadership continues to prioritize ideological signaling over public safety.

Ungar-Sargon addressed the incident after New York City Mayor Mamdani visited the injured man in the hospital. According to Ungar-Sargon, the man’s family had contacted authorities seeking help.

“This week, New York City Mayor Mamdani visited a man in the hospital who was shot by an NYPD police officer after charging the officer with a knife. Jabez Chakraborty’s family called 911 to report him having a psychotic episode. And here’s the body cam footage of what happened next. We want to warn you that the footage you’re about to see is difficult to watch,” Ungar-Sargon said.

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Body camera footage from the incident showed officers attempting to manage the situation before gunfire was used. Ungar-Sargon praised the NYPD’s handling of the encounter, emphasizing restraint and de-escalation.

“The cops did everything right? They tried to de escalate. They closed the door to the vestibule. They even did something progressives are always demanding. They didn’t shoot to kill. Mr. Chakraborty is in the hospital, recovering,” she said.

Ungar-Sargon criticized Mayor Mamdani for what she described as misplaced sympathy, arguing that the mayor portrayed the armed suspect as the primary victim rather than focusing on the danger faced by police.

“But it was the would be cop assassin who Mayor Mamdani visited who he portrayed as the real victim,” she said.

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She also pointed to Mamdani’s campaign proposals, particularly the idea of dispatching social workers instead of police to similar emergency calls, arguing such policies would place unarmed responders in lethal danger.

“Here, one of Mamdani’s proposals during the campaign was to dispatch social workers to scenes like this one. Had his stupid proposal been in effect, that social worker would have been stabbed to death. Just look at the size of the knife Mr. Chakraborty was wielding,” Ungar-Sargon said.

Ungar-Sargon characterized these approaches as harmful rather than compassionate.

“This is progressive cruelty disguised as compassion, and it is appalling, but it’s far from a one off,” she said.

She went on to link the incident to broader city policies she blamed for increased suffering, citing recent deaths among the homeless population during cold weather.

“Mamdani confirmed this week that 13 New Yorkers perished from the cold. They died thanks to his own policies,” Ungar-Sargon said.

According to Ungar-Sargon, those deaths followed an order halting homeless encampment sweeps.

“Weeks ago, Mamdani instructed the NYPD to stop performing sweeps of homeless encampments,” she said.

Ungar-Sargon argued that such policies, while framed as compassionate, ultimately harm both the public and vulnerable populations.

“Just one more example of how the policies that make progressives feel morally superior actually create unbelievable amounts of suffering,” she said.

She concluded by arguing that the consequences of these policies disproportionately fall on working-class communities rather than the political leaders and activists who promote them.

“Siding with criminals instead of law enforcement, like siding with the homeless over the working class people forced to live amongst them makes progressives feel compassionate. It makes them feel morally chic while actually being unbelievably cruel and dangerous, somehow, it’s never the well to do progressives who have to live with the consequences of their pieties,” Ungar-Sargon said.

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