Article: Police: Plot to Behead NYPD Commissioner

NEW YORK - A prisoner enraged by the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by undercover detectives tried to hire someone to behead the police commissioner and bomb police headquarters for $65,000, authorities said.

David Brown, 47, was arrested Monday on a charge of criminal solicitation after he offered an undercover officer the payout to kill Commissioner Raymond Kelly and blow up One Police Plaza, said Paul J. Browne, the NYPD's deputy commissioner for public information.

"I want his head chopped off," Brown allegedly told the undercover officer in a taped conversation.

Police said Brown was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday.

Brown, who's currently behind bars on a separate ...

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