Jailed man hires hitman to behead police commissioner and bomb HQ

A MAN charged with trying to hire a hitman to behead the city’s police commissioner is mentally ill, and his threats were simply talk, his attorney said.

Penniless, dependent on a wheelchair and already in jail, suspect David Brown was not “in any position to harm anyone — certainly not the police commissioner,” his lawyer, Justina Olderman, told reporters.

“There is absolutely no indication that this was anything other than mere words,” she said.