“Commissioner, facts are facts… A disproportionate number of people being stopped are people of color.”
NYC police commissioner Ray Kelly holds up bloody fragments of a bullet taken earlier this evening from the base of an NYPD officer’s skull. The officer survived the gunshot. The perp is in custody. The bullet may go down as a very strange prop in NYC history.
a press conference calling for #nypd commissioner ray kelly to resign- via @azipaybarah
Professor Dinkins sprung up from his chair and instructed the young man to “take it easy.” Several students asked if he was even registered for the course. “No, I go to NYU,” he said. A groan went up and students began asking him to leave.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told lawmakers in two private meetings that he wanted young black and Latino men to feel they could be stopped and searched by police officers at any point, according to State Senator Eric Adams, who attended the meetings.
