NEW YORK (PIX11) — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is promising to release police body camera footage and speed up his plan to change how the city responds to people in mental health crisis. It comes after concerns over the NYPD’s shooting of a man wielding a knife last week.

The NYPD on Tuesday released video of the recent police shooting of a man wielding a knife. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said it makes the case to change the way the city responds to mental health calls.

Details apparently aren’t Hiz department. Mayor Zohran Mamdani pushed his vague “Department of Community Safety” again on Tuesday after the NYPD’s recent shooting of a mentally ill Queens man – but couldn’t say how the newfangled agency would’ve responded.

Former Mayor Eric Adams and his longtime allies in the NYPD said cameras could start rolling on a behind-the-scenes police reality show before any official contract was in place — and despite opposition by Commissioner Jessica Tisch, according to court records and interviews with current and former police officials.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani calls to disband the NYPD protest unit, while demanding higher taxes on wealthy residents to address the city's ongoing fiscal crisis.

For more than three weeks, the New York City Police Department’s public information channels have remained virtually silent — an