One of the things at stake in the appeal of the stop, question, and frisk case is the good name — the honor — of New York’s Finest. This was certainly in sharp relief Tuesday, when Commissioner Kelly was prevented from speaking at Brown University by a student mob. At practically the same hour in federal appeals court in Manhattan, a panel of judges who ride the Second Circuit heard a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights attempt to save his case by suggesting that Mr. Kelly had made a racist remark, even though the commissioner had denied it.