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The head of New York City's police oversight agency abruptly resigned on Friday, bullied out of office by a New York Post media campaign orchestrated by the city's largest police union.
In his resignation letter, Dr. Mohammad Khalid, a Staten Island dentist who has served as interim chair of the Civilian Complaint Review Board since last December, referenced the smear campaign led by Patrick Hendry, the president of the Police Benevolent Association. "Mr. Hendry's attacks have been relentless and untrue, and they have negatively impacted me, my family and my health," he wrote in his letter to the mayor and City Council speaker, according to the New York Times. Though he would have liked to continue at the job, Khalid wrote, "I will not do so when he can brazenly lie about me without consequence." The 77-year-old Khalid told the New York Times he's lost sleep and gone to see a doctor about his stress.