Thursday 29 December 2011

Protest planned for interfaith breakfast

In this Monday April 20, 2009 file photo, Mayor Michael Bloomberg listens during a press conference in New York. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews) In this Monday April 20, 2009 file photo, Mayor Michael Bloomberg listens during a press conference in New York. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews)

  Patrick Becker, Eyewitness NewsNEW YORK (WABC) -- Mayor Bloomberg's annual interfaith breakfast Friday is now threatened to be overshadowed by protests.

A group of Muslim clerics say they will boycott the breakfast because of the NYPD's controversial counter-terrorism surveillance programs in the city.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says the department's actions are within the law.

Friday's breakfast is still scheduled as planned at the Public Library in Midtown.

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