{"id":643,"date":"2026-07-17T10:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:45:10","slug":"the-police-shootings-haunting-new-yorks-south-asian-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"The Police Shootings Haunting New York\u2019s South Asian Community"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

On March 27, the second anniversary of Win Rozario\u2019s death at the hands of the New York Police Department, his family gathered at Diversity Plaza in Jackson Heights for a public rally. It was one of the first warm days of spring, and Notun Eva Costa, Win\u2019s mother, stood behind a banner reading \u201cFire Officers Cianfrocco and Alongi.\u201d She was flanked by South Asian elders chanting \u201cJustice for Win Rozario!\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more The Politics of Cruelty Starts With the Vulnerable<\/a><\/p>\n

There were a handful of speeches, including one from Public Advocate Jumanee Williams. After each speech concluded, the event\u2019s organizers, who were part of the social justice group known as Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), dutifully reminded the rally\u2019s attendees to take photos, post them on social media, and tag Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. Eva, a middle-aged woman with slicked hair and a round face, stood before the cameras with her eyes fixed on the ground.<\/p>\n

Behind her stood a taller woman with a comforting hand on Eva\u2019s shoulder. She had a sharp chin, reddish hair, and redder eyes from crying. Juli Chakraborty looked around the crowd frantically, as if trying to determine whether this, too, would become her future as a mother of a son, Jabez Chakraborty, who had nearly been killed by the NYPD.<\/p>\n

Roughly two years apart, two Bangladeshi American men were shot by NYPD officers following mental distress\u2013related 911 calls. In the case of 19-year-old Win Rozario, the bullet wounds proved fatal. Twenty-two-year-old Chakraborty survived five gunshots. There is a likeness to the tragedies and their aftermath, including the fact that the victims were both from a small Christian Bangladeshi contingent in Queens. \u201cAlthough police brutality has been, tragically, experienced heavily by Black and other brown communities, it has not as frequently resulted in officer-caused killings in South Asian communities, particularly for Bangladeshi Christians,\u201d Rebecca Chowdhury, an organizer of DRUM, told me.<\/p>\n

Following the shooting of Jabez Chakraborty, Mamdani signed an executive order to form the Office of Community Safety\u2014a partial realization of his campaign promise to mitigate mental-health and other emergencies through non-police means. But the willingness of police, city officials, and mental-health professionals to cross-collaborate has long been a fraught and stalled process, resulting in police-induced deaths of New Yorkers like Win Rozario. As a result, this constituency of South Asians, who had hugely mobilized behind Mamdani\u2019s candidacy, is once again organizing to demand even more reform from their city and its mayor.<\/p>\n

On March 27, 2024, Win Rozario, a broad-shouldered, square-faced 19-year-old, woke up feeling exceptionally depressed. According to Eva, he confided in her about his suicidal ideation that morning. She knew to take him seriously; her son had attempted suicide before. Win\u2019s father, Francis Rozario, was already at work at JFK Airport. Concerned that she might need help if his condition worsened, his mother asked Win\u2019s 17-year-old younger brother to stay home from school. Eva then spent two hours comforting Win until he said, \u201cI am not going to have these thoughts anymore.\u201d He got up to shower. Eva briefly stepped out of their home in Ozone Park, Queens, to a nearby church to pray for her son and light a candle. Then she bought him a slice of cake to lift his mood. When she returned, Win told her he had called 911\u2014neither she nor his brother had heard him do so. When NYPD officers knocked on their pale-yellow door, Win said he was feeling much better. Eva asked her younger son to answer and tell the officers they were no longer needed. She later told me, \u201cWe didn\u2019t know you don\u2019t have to let them inside.\u201d<\/p>\n

It turned out that the two officers, Matthew Cianfrocco and Salvatore Alongi, had been in the apartment before, having been called after one of Win\u2019s previous suicide attempts. On that occasion, they spent 30 minutes speaking with him and managed to talk him down. Recalling that meeting to the Office of Special Investigations (OSI), Officer Cianfrocco described Win as a \u201cnon-threatening kid\u201d who talked about his despair over being prevented from his dream of joining the US military by his family\u2019s lack of a green card. Eva has since maintained that her son was not mentally unwell but circumstantially depressed because of the absence of the green card.<\/p>\n

Upon entering the apartment for the second and last time, Cianfrocco instantly remembered Win. But that didn\u2019t stop what happened next.<\/p>\n

Footage from Cianfrocco\u2019s body camera captured the scene. Win\u2019s brother opens the door and says, \u201cHe is having an episode.\u201d Alongi asks, \u201cIs he bipolar? Schizo?\u201d Win\u2019s brother says he does not know. As officers enter and head upstairs, Win retreats to the kitchen, opens a drawer, and retrieves a pair of scissors. He takes a large step toward Alongi and is immediately tased. His mother grabs him. They grapple and fall to the ground. When they rise, she is holding the scissors. In the background, Win\u2019s brother pleads, \u201cPlease do not shoot my mother.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eva, keeping the scissors out of Win\u2019s reach, places herself between him and the officers, imploring in Bangla, \u201cHe is a good boy. Please.\u201d The officers repeatedly order her to step away. Win begins to settle. Eva sets the scissors on a nearby chair, steps back as told, and futilely orders the officers, \u201cYou arrest, don\u2019t shoot.\u201d For a moment, Win stands unarmed, staring blankly as if awaiting arrest. In the next second, both officers tase him again. He convulses, lunges for the scissors, then toward the officers. <\/p>\n

Eva rushes to him, trying to pull the scissors away again; Win\u2019s brother clings to his mother, crying, \u201cPlease don\u2019t shoot my mom!\u201d In the struggle, the scissors fall, and Win picks them up a third time, but does not approach the officers. Win\u2019s brother and Eva are on the ground, in the line of fire. Both officers shoot at Win. Eva screams from the kitchen floor in an octave only a mother can reach, \u201cDon\u2019t shoot! Don\u2019t shoot!\u201d Win keels over. The entire incident unfolds in just over two minutes.<\/p>\n

After the shooting, two other officers drove Eva and her younger son to a precinct station. Eva recalls the officers in the car jovially chatting with one another as the two people in the back sat stiffly, wondering if their family member was dead or alive. Once at the station, Eva told me, she and her son were separately questioned about Win\u2019s medical history and behavior. After what felt like a winding interrogation, an officer informed the family that Win was dead. They were allowed to reenter their home after 48 hours. When they did, Eva found a puddle of Win\u2019s blood hardened on the kitchen floor.<\/p>\n

In the two years since Win\u2019s killing, his family has been drawn into a bewildering legal thicket. The New York Attorney General\u2019s Office of Special Investigation (OSI) declined to indict the officers, saying their use of deadly force was justified in the circumstances. Separately, the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), New York City\u2019s independent police monitor, charged Officers Alongi and Cianfrocco with abuse of authority and excessive force. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch has served those charges, but an internal disciplinary trial has yet to begin. Whether the officers are fired or face lesser penalties, including loss of vacation days, will ultimately be decided by Tisch.<\/p>\n

The Rozario family has also filed a civil lawsuit against the city of New York. Luna Droubi, the Rozario family\u2019s counsel, told me, \u201cWe are in active litigation in federal court, challenging the conduct of the officers individually and what happened to Win specifically, but also the larger policy and practice of the city.\u201d While there are a host of avenues\u2014civil and criminal\u2014to hold officers accountable, Droubi explained, the internal systems that determine police dismissals are opaque to civilians, in which officers are effectively held responsible by fellow, higher-ranking officers. Yul-san Liem of the Justice Committee\u2014a prominent grassroots organization dedicated to ending police violence\u2014told me that the NYPD disciplinary system is \u201ccompletely biased towards police officers,\u201d forcing families into public campaigns for nominal closure. Given the byzantine bureaucracy of justice, \u201corganizing is aimed at making it politically untenable for the NYPD and the mayor not to take action.\u201d<\/p>\n

Less than six months after the Rozario family filed their lawsuit with the city, five miles away from the Rozario home, Jabez Chakraborty was hospitalized for consuming bleach. His family called 988, the mental-health line, seeking a non-police response. Chakraborty had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. His mother, Juli, calls him her \u201cspecial boy\u201d and describes him as compassionate, intelligent, and developmentally younger than his age. In publicly distributed photos, Jabez has a boyish smile and neatly parted hair.<\/p>\n

The mobile crisis team arrived 48 hours after the 988 call. Juli and Hector Chakraborty, the parents of Jabez, told me they asked him rudimentary questions while standing outside the front door, such as \u201cDo you hear voices?\u201d When Jabez said no, they quickly left. Afterward, the family sought a more intensive treatment program at Zucker Hillside\/Northwell Hospital, and Jabez was placed on its waiting list. In the meantime, his psychiatrist at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center advised the family to call 911 and request an involuntary transport to LIJ in case of future emergencies.<\/p>\n

One month later, on the morning of January 26, Jabez was throwing glass at a wall in his home in Jamaica Hills, Queens. Heeding the psychiatrist\u2019s guidance, his older sister called 911, requesting an involuntary transport to LIJ. When the police arrived, Jabez had calmed, according to his mother, and was eating his breakfast. Hector\u2014a respected pastor\u2014was in another room working on a sermon. As caught in Officer Tyree White\u2019s body camera footage, he knocked on the door, while joking with his partner, \u201cEver since I\u2019ve been watching videos, I don\u2019t stand in front of the door no more, bro.\u201d His partner replied affirmatively, \u201cYeah, you never know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Great War: The Insane and Familiar \u2018War Madness\u2019 of 1914<\/a><\/p>\n

Juli opened the door and let them in. Upon spotting the police, Jabez instantly grabbed a kitchen knife and thrust it toward them. Juli tried to intervene, but Jabez easily shrugged his mother aside. The officers backed up and closed a door in the entryway between them and Jabez. White commanded Jabez through the closed door to drop the knife, but Jabez pried the door open and brandished the knife. White shot him in the chest, abdomen, pelvis, and buttocks. This encounter lasted 37 seconds.<\/p>\n

According to the Chakraborty family, police asked them to calm him after he had been shot. While he was writhing in pain with his insides splayed open, officers demanded that Hector \u201ctell him to cooperate.\u201d An investigator, who quickly arrived on the scene, asked whether the family had video recordings of the incident, then tried to play \u201cgood cop\u201d by telling Hector, \u201cYeah, those police are bad.\u201d The investigator took their phones and phone passwords, promising it would \u201cmake the process faster.\u201d Hector remembers, \u201cThere was blood all over the place, and they were still asking us questions.\u201d <\/p>\n

The family also claims that the NYPD asked about their immigration status. NYPD\u2019s Assistant Commissioner Brad Weekes vigorously denied this, telling me, \u201cWe want everyone to feel comfortable engaging with the NYPD. We don\u2019t ask those questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neighbors of the Chakraborty family later told them that it took about 40 minutes before Jabez was taken to a hospital. Even after the shooting, the family requested he be sent to LIJ, where he had pre-established psychiatric care, but he was transported to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. Much to their chagrin, the family told me that it was Officer White, not Jabez, who was taken to LIJ with ringing in his ear from discharging a weapon. The NYPD did not confirm whether he was transported to a hospital or which one.<\/p>\n

The Chakraborty family was held and questioned at a precinct for four hours, without knowledge of whether Jabez was still alive\u2014much like the Rozarios. When they asked to see their son, they were told that the officer who permitted visitation was no longer at the precinct. They were allowed to visit him the next afternoon, more than 24 hours after. When Juli asked Jabez why he grabbed the knife, he told her, \u201cI was trying to protect you, Mommy.\u201d<\/p>\n

When addressing the delay in transporting Jabez after he was shot, Weekes told me, \u201cIt\u2019s not NYPD. That\u2019s EMS arriving late,\u201d adding that the officer who fired immediately rendered aid. What can be attributed to the NYPD is its clinical impenitence and malfeasance in the aftermath. In these cases, the officers who discharged their weapons become medics; their colleagues swarm in as transporters, investigators, and intermediaries. Families are quickly siloed, treated with suspicion, and left to seek information from the same authority responsible for the shooting. Few other situations come to mind where an entity that has just used lethal force is also in the position of managing both the victim\u2019s lifesaving care and the investigation of its own actions.<\/p>\n

While Officer White\u2019s culpability will long be investigated, Jabez has already been arraigned on charges of attempted assault and weapon possession for advancing on a NYPD officer. He faces 15 years in prison if convicted. Jabez appeared in court via video, with his feet and hands shackled to his hospital bed. He sobbed sporadically. Assistant District Attorney Hugh McCann argued that the bedridden, mentally unfit individual was a flight risk. \u201cAs our client appeared with bullet wounds across his body,\u201d the Chakraborty counsel told me, \u201ca prosecutor responded to our argument: \u2018What I heard is a lot of playing victim here, but don\u2019t forget, Police Officer White is the real victim.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chakrabortys secured his bond with a $10,000 deposit. Put another way, they paid the city $10,000 for the shooting of their son. More than half a year later, Jabez still uses a colostomy bag and has undergone several major surgeries. According to the Queens Daily Eagle<\/em>, \u201cDoctors will likely leave one bullet inside his body because it sits too close to his heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shortly after she began her tenure as deputy mayor for the Office of Community Safety, I spoke to Renita Francois about Win Rozario, Jabez Chakraborty, and the prevention of such incidents in the future. She described the current system of emergency response as a \u201cpatchwork of services.\u201d The office\u2019s aim, she said, is to \u201cexpand what the definition of safety looks like\u201d by increasing public awareness of available options. including a program piloted in 2021 known as B-Heard, which sends mental health workers to crises in lieu of officers.<\/p>\n

Last year, The New York Times <\/em>reported that between 2022 and 2024 B-Heard did not respond to 35 percent of eligible calls, leaving police as the first responders. The AG\u2019s report of the Win Rozario case acknowledges that \u201cB-Heard did not cover the 102nd Precinct and would not have been able to respond even if called.\u201d Responding to skepticism from Police Commissioner Tisch, who said only 2 percent of emergency calls would be diverted from police by the new office, Francois answered, \u201cWe will expand on the 2 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recently, three months after the announcement of the OCS, Tisch bluntly testified during a City Council hearing that no talks had commenced between the police force and the Office of Community Safety on a shift in responsibilities or policy. A spokesperson for the OCS told me that the deputy mayor and police commissioner have since met and had a \u201cproductive discussion\u201d about \u201cways to advance their shared goal of making the five boroughs safer for all New Yorkers.\u201d <\/p>\n

Following the death of Win Rozario, the Bangladeshi American Police Association (BAPA) refused to make a public statement, DRUM noted to me. They have not responded to me either. When I asked Brad Weekes if BAPA ever works with DRUM, he rebutted, \u201cHas DRUM ever reached out to them?\u201d<\/p>\n

Amid the puerile finger-pointing and temporized decision-making, New Yorkers in need are forgotten twice over\u2014once while individuals are in the throes of psychological catastrophe, and then a second time, when their families are left waiting for various verdicts by legal and bureaucratic entities. In the current model, responsibility is deliberately refracted, so accountability can be as well. The cardinal challenge the Office of Community Safety then faces is to dissolve the calcified distrust among city elements, which hinders the development of more lucid emergency response models.<\/p>\n

Juli Chakraborty attended the rally for Win Rozario\u2019s death anniversary on the same day a Queens judge refused a motion to dismiss charges against her son. In the coming years, the Chakrabortys must ensure the physical mending of their son, stabilize his mental health, and continue to fight a thorny legal battle over his freedom. <\/p>\n

In the meantime, the Rozario family will proceed with what has become an unending drudgery of recourse. Among the many disappointments such families endure is how they must live with the years-long fallout of incidents that unfolded in less than minutes. In the aftermath, an immense organizing operation to demand reform to prevent future tragedies must be led and sustained by the victims themselves and their families.<\/p>\n

One day after he was shot, Jabez Chakraborty was taken off the waiting list and admitted to the Hillside treatment program. Win Rozario\u2019s family received their green card about a year after he was killed.<\/p>\n

Read more America\u2019s Imperial Wars, Then and Now<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nation Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Police Shootings Haunting New York\u2019s South Asian Community - Atlas Living Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Police Shootings Haunting New York\u2019s South Asian Community - Atlas Living Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nation Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Atlas Living Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-07-17T10:45:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"15 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/?p=643#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/?p=643\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f6233854b1f92a6d21147fe5d5e58abc\"},\"headline\":\"The Police Shootings Haunting New York\u2019s South Asian Community\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-17T10:45:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/?p=643\"},\"wordCount\":2952,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/?p=643#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/a51f01f3dcd36b583e71c2766b311b1a.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Activism\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/?p=643#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/?p=643\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/?p=643\",\"name\":\"The Police Shootings Haunting New York\u2019s South Asian Community - Atlas Living Media\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/?p=643#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/?p=643#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/a51f01f3dcd36b583e71c2766b311b1a.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-17T10:45:10+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f6233854b1f92a6d21147fe5d5e58abc\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/?p=643#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/?p=643\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/?p=643#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/a51f01f3dcd36b583e71c2766b311b1a.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/a51f01f3dcd36b583e71c2766b311b1a.jpg\",\"width\":1440,\"height\":907},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/?p=643#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Police Shootings Haunting New York\u2019s South Asian Community\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Atlas Living Media\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f6233854b1f92a6d21147fe5d5e58abc\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/atlaslivingmedia.com\\\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Police Shootings Haunting New York\u2019s South Asian Community - Atlas Living Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Police Shootings Haunting New York\u2019s South Asian Community - Atlas Living Media","og_description":"The Nation Magazine","og_url":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643","og_site_name":"Atlas Living Media","article_published_time":"2026-07-17T10:45:10+00:00","author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"15 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f6233854b1f92a6d21147fe5d5e58abc"},"headline":"The Police Shootings Haunting New York\u2019s South Asian Community","datePublished":"2026-07-17T10:45:10+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643"},"wordCount":2952,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a51f01f3dcd36b583e71c2766b311b1a.jpg","articleSection":["Activism"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643","url":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643","name":"The Police Shootings Haunting New York\u2019s South Asian Community - Atlas Living Media","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a51f01f3dcd36b583e71c2766b311b1a.jpg","datePublished":"2026-07-17T10:45:10+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f6233854b1f92a6d21147fe5d5e58abc"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a51f01f3dcd36b583e71c2766b311b1a.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a51f01f3dcd36b583e71c2766b311b1a.jpg","width":1440,"height":907},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=643#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Police Shootings Haunting New York\u2019s South Asian Community"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/","name":"Atlas Living Media","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f6233854b1f92a6d21147fe5d5e58abc","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com"],"url":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}