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Well, this is embarrassing.

New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly got quite the welcome on Tuesday, when he was booed off stage at Brown University while trying to give a lecture on “proactive policing.”

According to the Providence Journal, the Commissioner was at the Rhode Island university to discuss his time at the New York City Police Department and his efforts to drive down crime. But students and social activists present at the lecture weren’t trying to hear it.

Before the lecture, some students and social justice activists marched, carrying signs that stated “Stop & frisk doesn’t stop crime” and “Stop police brutality,” to protest the Kelly’s police department’s stop-and-frisk policy and its surveillance of Muslims.

Currently, the department is fighting lawsuits alleging it has engaged in racial profiling with their controversial stop-and-frisk policy. Both Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have denied the accusations. Earlier this year, Kelly even alleged that blacks and other minorities are “under-stopped” in stop-and-frisk.

Kelly was only able to speak for one minute before the shouts started. He promptly exited the stage and left the premises 20 minutes later.

Guess he couldn’t take the heat…

SOURCE: Providence Journal | PHOTO CREDIT: YouTube