The interim chair of the Civilian Complaint Review Board is resigning — and says he is stepping down because a police union head smeared him as “anti-cop” and lied about his record.
Dr. Mohammad Khalid, in a letter sent to Mayor Adams, said that going back to his days as a CCRB board member for 10 years during the Bloomberg administration he has always been “a voice for fairness.”
But, he said, he decided to resign “as a result of of Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry’s campaign of lies against my character.”
“He has lied about me and my record with the CCRB,” Khalid said in the letter. “He has accused me of being anti-cop, which is absolutely not the case. He even tried to link me to the political agenda of [Mayor-elect Mamdani], for no apparent reason beyond p

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