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Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly demanded Tuesday to know why the community leaders who rail against stop-and-frisk policies haven’t led demonstrations against the gun violence exploding this summer. “There doesn’t seem to be any major community response,” Kelly said. “Many of them will speak out about stop-and-frisk” but are “shockingly silent when it comes to the level of violence right in their own communities,” he said. Seventy-seven people were shot in New York last week during the heat wave, including a 3-year-old winged by crossfire as he played under a sprinkler in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. “We have not had a demonstration about...

AP File Photo Triple murder suspect Rodolfo Godinez, center, was escorted by Prince George's County officers for his first extradition hearing on Sept. 19. UPPER MARLBORO, Md - A second extradition hearing was slated for this morning for Rodolfo Godinez, a 24-year-old Nicaraguan national and Newark resident charged in a brutal schoolyard triple murder in August. During a hearing last month, Godinez' court-appointed attorney, Brian Denton said he would argue that the extradition should be blocked because his client was not afforded access to officials at the Nicaraguan consulate after his arrest.