City Council Grills Kelly on Police Surveillance of Muslims

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By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
Published: October 6, 2011

City Council members took aim on Thursday at the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslims, pointedly questioning Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly about the breadth of the force’s undercover efforts in the decade since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

At an unusually intense hearing, several council members tried to pierce the secrecy that has largely surrounded the operations of the Intelligence Division, one of the department’s entities involved in counterterrorism investigations.

“It looks like we are targeting Muslim neighborhoods and communities,” Councilman Brad Lander said. “That’s not good for us. We have people out there who are partners who feel the trust is betrayed.”

The hearing, which lasted over an hour, unfolded before an audience packed with Muslim organizers, civil liberties lawyers and others, including the mother of a Queens man serving a 30-year prison sentence for plotting an attack at the Herald Square subway station in 2004.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/nyregion/councilmen-grill-nypd-leader-on-surveillance-of-muslims.html?_r=1

Read the last three paragraphs. This is is the arrogance of the Police Commissioner supervising the police at OWS.