Beheading of chief sought, police say

A man was arrested for trying to hire someone to behead New York’s police commissioner in revenge for the police shooting that left a young groom dead on his wedding day, authorities said.

David Brown, 47, a felon, was charged with criminal solicitation after he offered an undercover officer $65,000 to kill Commissioner Raymond Kelly and blow up police headquarters in Manhattan, police spokesman Paul J. Browne said.

“I want his head chopped off,” Brown told the undercover officer, according to a partial transcript provided by police of the taped conversation. Brown blamed Kelly for not taking the “initiative to prosecute the officers. That kind of got me frustrated to the point where I want him murdered.”