well Jersey City officials are defending the Fatal police shooting of a man whose family says he was experiencing a mental health crisis according to the Police director officers were called to an incident involving 52-year-old Andrew Jerome Washington around 3 P.M on Sunday at the request of members from the Jersey City Medical Center crisis center because they felt unsafe law enforcement then engaged with Washington for nearly an hour when they felt he may harm himself or someone else in the apartment police officials say they opened the door and were charged by Washington with a knife in hand police used a taser and a firearm shooting the 52-year-old who was then brought to a local hospital and later died Washington's family is demanding more answers about the use of force the Attorney General's office is investigating the shooting and Jersey city mayor Steve fullup today urged the office to immediately release police body camera footage to the public if you look at the set of protocols and you say the police department could have acted differently under those citizens we would be having a press conference the same where you're asking us why did we not enter the building after somebody so erratic was saying something that they could have harmed somebody else as well as themselves and their circumstances could have been different this is a tragedy no question because somebody lost their life and I think that director Shea said it accurately I mean our hearts go out to the family and certainly we are very very grieved to see anybody lose their life here but I think when you look at the incident and the circumstances you'd be hard-pressed to say that the medical center and the Jersey Police Department could have acted differently in this situation [Music]