Cuomo Facing Heat Over Appointment Of Ray Kelly

Cuomo Facing Heat Over Appointment Of Ray Kelly
NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly leaves a news conference at the scene of a Metro-North passenger train derailment in the Bronx borough of New York, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. The train derailed on a curved section of track in the Bronx on Sunday morning, coming to rest just inches from the water and causing multiple fatalities and dozens of injuries, authorities said. Metropolitan Transportation Authority police say the train derailed near the Spuyten Duyvil station. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly leaves a news conference at the scene of a Metro-North passenger train derailment in the Bronx borough of New York, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. The train derailed on a curved section of track in the Bronx on Sunday morning, coming to rest just inches from the water and causing multiple fatalities and dozens of injuries, authorities said. Metropolitan Transportation Authority police say the train derailed near the Spuyten Duyvil station. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

ALBANY The Legislature’s Black and Hispanic Caucus has drafted a scathing letter demanding that Gov. Cuomo rescind his appointment of former NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly as a special adviser.

The letter cites Kelly’s aggressive use of stop-and-frisk policing and the NYPD’s Muslim surveillance program as reasons to disqualify him for the position.

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