Obama would consider Ray Kelly to replace Janet Napolitano

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Politico

President Barack Obama thinks Ray Kelly has done an "extraordinary job" as New York's police commissioner, and would consider him as a candidate to replace departing Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, he said Tuesday.

Obama told Univision's New York affiliate that he plans to put together a group of "strong candidates" for the job and that Kelly would be one if he's interested in leaving his current position. "Mr. Kelly might be very happy where he is, but if he's not I'd want to know about it, because obviously he'd be very well qualified for the job," the president said.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he called Denis McDonough soon after Napolitano announced her departure on Friday. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) also voiced his support for Kelly.

The comments came in one of four interviews Obama conducted Tuesday with local Spanish-language reporters.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/07/obama-would-consider-ray-kelly-to-replace-janet-napolitano-168507.html?hp=r20

[fredamae]

1. Yep, because He Believes in

Civil Rights and will Never do Anything to Violate them to "fight terrorism and keep us safe" (as long as you're WHITE).
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/28/2231761/mayor-bloomberg-nypd-stop-whites-too-much-and-minorities-too-little/

[BehindTheCurtain76]

13. wow

Wow...Obama appoints another neonazi, drug war cheerleader. Im done with Obama.

[niyad]

2. this is from the Onion, yes??? PLEASE tell me this is from the Onion. How about Norm Stamper?

[truebrit71]

12. I was just about to post the very same thing....

....holy fuck what must he be thinking???

[winterpark]

3. The sad irony here is that if Barack Obama were not President of the USA he would

be profiled and arrested by Ray Kelley's NYPD like all the other black & brown men in NY.

[DainBramaged]

4. National stop and frisk wet dream

"Hey buddy, what you doing?"


This guy will work out well.




Ray Kelly blasts Obama administration over stop-frisk stance


Police Commissioner Ray Kelly tonight blasted the Obama administration for recommending a monitor to oversee the NYPD’s stop and frisk program.

“It is disappointing, quite frankly,” Kelly said following a graduation ceremony.

Kelly said he’s known Attorney General Eric Holder for some time and was stunned by his last minute intrusion into a controversial federal court case that could force the NYPD to make sweeping changes to stop and frisk.

“We were not given an opportunity to address the issues that they supposedly had seen,’’ Kelly said at St. Gregory The Great on the Upper West Side, a school he attended as a child.

He called the “11th hour, 59th minute” court filing by the Justice Department “unfair, unnecessary,”


http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/raykelly_blasts_obama_administration_76qz5GrzapRFNZdffmwRDL

[bullwinkle428]

5. Is Bernie Kerik not available?

[CreekDog]

6. well I'm white, so I guess I won't be a victim of nationwise Stop and Frisk

but that doesn't make it right.



Obama, STOP.

[alp227]

7. What...did Romney really win the election?

Some of Obama policies...HARDLY DIFFERENT FROM a Romney admin.

CHANGE????

[FiveGoodMen]

8. No, but the people BACKING Romney did

They would have either way.

[Ash_F]

9. 'Ray Kelly said 'stop and frisk' intended to 'instill fear' in blacks and Latinos'

'"He stated that he targeted and focused on that group because he wanted to instill fear in them that every time that they left their homes they could be targeted by police," Adams testifies.'

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/senator-kelly-stop-frisk-instill-fear-blacks-latinos-article-1.1304763

Holy shit now even the president is rubbing it in our faces.

[forestpath]

10. Sounds like he's right up Obama's anti-99% alley.

[Joe Hyperion]

11. Relax guys. He said "would consider"

Doesn't mean Obama likes the pick.

[AllINeedIsCoffee]

14. Jane Harman and Loretta Sanchez have been floated as well. They're the more likely choices. nt

[Comrade Grumpy]

15. Ray Kelly is a fucking thug and apologist for NYPD thuggery. No thanks.

NYPD under Kelly is out of control. He is absolutely not the man to lead the national police state agency.

[boilerbabe]

16. ROFL!

[Bolo Boffin]

17. Never on the short list.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/17/exclusive-jeh-johnson-tapped-to-lead-department-of-homeland-security.html

Never even interviewed.