Brian Larry on WNYC, Mayor Adams held his weekly Tuesday news conference yesterday.

He led with the city beaches opening this past weekend and the use of drones in support of the lifeguards,

also job growth in the city, and the closure of 200 illegal smoke shops.

And he took questions from reporters, which is what you're supposed to do at a news conference,

including from our own Liz Kim, the WNYC and Gothamist reporter, who covers the mayor.

She joins us now, like she does most Wednesdays, after these Tuesday press Q&As with excerpts and analysis, and to take your calls.

Hi, Liz. Happy Wednesday, Brian.

And it's Wednesday already. That's what happens when you have a Monday holiday. Like, poof, it's Wednesday.

I think we should start with a tough one. You and I have talked about it before. The mayor's

been reluctant to talk about it. He finally did in some detail. The police response to people

having a crisis with mental illness, in particular the case recently of Wyn Rosario. So I'll play your

question and his response in a moment. But first, there was yet another police shooting of a

disturbed man in Brooklyn this past weekend. Can you tell us briefly what happened there?

Sure. So on early Sunday morning, a man who was wielding two knives, according to police,

knocked on the window of a police car.

And what ensued was, according to police, the police tased him. That did not completely disarm him. And then what happened

was that he was fatally shot by the police officers. We're yet to see the body cam footage. So again,

this is all according to police. But the description

of the man at the press conference was that he seemed to be experiencing some kind of mental

health crisis. So yet again, you know, this is about two months since the Wynn Rosario killing, we have yet another incident in which

police tried to respond to someone who appeared to be in some kind of mental distress,

you know, and they used force. And what ultimately happened is that the person died.

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