HE DID IT AGAIN - NYPD Thug Anthony Bologna Pepper Sprays Photographer At Wall Street Protests, Police Chief Ray Kelly Calls 1st Mace Incident 'Appropriate'

Slow motion video.

You can see a video of the first 'macing' HERE.

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Normal speed video.

Source - The Atlantic

A new video showing Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna in a second pepper-spraying incident during the weekend's Occupy Wall Street protest came out overnight, a few hours before the New York Police Department announced it would investigate Bologna's use of the spray, which it had previously defended. The original video of Bologna spraying four women detained behind netting has been pretty well parsed by folks who say it goes against the department's guidelines. The new one also seems to show a violation of the department guidelines as Bologna sprays what appears to be a photographer who wasn't being detained.

The video clearly shows Bologna spraying the side of the face of someone wearing an identification tag and holding a camera. It's unclear whether he's got a police-issued press pass, but he doesn't seem to be participating in the main demonstration. That would appear to contradict the department's guidelines, summarized in this department report on pepper spray that quotes the NYPD Patrol Guide (the report is from 2000, but the language it quotes jibes with snippets reported in this New York Times story, and refers to a Guide appendix,  P.G. 212-95, confirmed in this truncated version of the 2010 guide):

Patrol Guide 212-95 lists five situations in which an officer may use pepper spray. Pepper spray may be used when a police officer “reasonably believes” that it is necessary to: 1) protect himself, or another from unlawful use of force (e.g., assault); 2) effect an arrest, or establish physical control of a subject resisting arrest; 3) establish physical control of a subject attempting to flee from arrest or custody; 4) establish physical control of an emotionally disturbed person (EDP); and 5) control a dangerous animal by deterring an attack, to prevent injury to persons or animals present. The Patrol Guide states that officers should aim and discharge pepper spray into a subject’s eyes, nose, and/or mouth in two short one-second bursts at a minimum of three feet for maximum effectiveness.

The Patrol Guide prohibits the use of pepper spray against subjects who passively resist (e.g., going limp, offering no active physical resistance).  It further cautions that if possible, pepper spray should not be used against persons who appear to be in frail health, young children, women believed to be pregnant, or persons with known respiratory conditions.

New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who had previously called the initial spraying incident "appropriate," told reporters on Wednesday that the department would investigate the incident. The New York Times quoted him speaking about the first incident with the four women. 

“I don’t know what precipitated that specific incident,” he said, but added that demonstrators as a group were engaged in “tumultuous conduct” and were “intent on blocking traffic” as they marched down University Place on their return from Union Square to the financial district, where the protesters have been encamped for more than a week.

After the initial incident, the blog U.S. Law published a rebuttal to NYPD spokesman Paul Brown's claims about the incident on Sunday. "Pepper spray was used once," Brown told The New York Times, "after individuals confronted officers and tried to prevent them from deploying a mesh barrier — something that was edited out or otherwise not captured in the video." Amid its lengthy rebuttal, U.S. Law points out:

While other women were loudly reacting to the violent nearby arrests they were witnessing take place in the street, there was no physical impediment to the police work on the sidewalk in the immediate vicinity for at least 18 seconds prior to the release of spray. Were there any confrontation, it had been quelled long before the pepper spray was deployed. 

The Civilian Complaint Review Board has is now reviewing the incident in addition to the police department's Internal Affairs Bureau.

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PHOTOS - NYPD thug Anthony Bologna

White shirt NYPD officer below is none other than Anthony Bologna, the thug who maced innocent female protesters over the weekend.

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Call NOW and demand that Bologna be charged:

Mayor Bloomberg: +1 (212) 639-9675 or +1 (212) 788-2958
Deputy Commissioner of Public Information: +1 (646) 610-6700
NYPD Switchboard: +1 (646) 610-5000
First precinct: +1 (212) 334-0611

More photos of Bologna are HERE...

Comments

[john]

DB, I pick this up from the comments elsewhere. In the photos is a cop with a red jacket and people are looking to identify him.


flame821 says:
September 25, 2011 at 6:07 am
This was horrible and not even the worst of what the NYPD did today. The dark haired man with the red jacket (Badge 7432, I believe) has been inciting violence on a regular basis. He should be indicted and publicly shamed for his actions. I want the badge number of the (Sergeant?) in the white shirt who maced those poor children. Kneeling on the throat off one young man, another suffering concussion due being tackled and having his head bounce on the concrete. Shameful and unforgivable.

[DailyBail]

Yep...keep posting that...

[DailyBail]

Updated 8:44 p.m. | The police and Manhattan prosecutors are separately examining a high-ranking officer’s use of pepper spray on a number of female protesters at a demonstration on Saturday.

http://12160.info/page/2649739:Page:678176

[DailyBail]

Don't Be Scared to Say Revolution': Cornel West to Wall Street Protestors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XVaEWPWvXw

[DailyBail]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/28/1021124/-Transport-Workers-Union-votes-to-support-OccupyWallstreet%21

A Massive Union Just Voted To Side With The Wall Street Protesters

[john]

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/09/28/identify-nyc-cop-allegedly-committed-acts-brutality-occupywallstreet-protestors-72111/

Alex...see my 3:01 post.

[DailyBail]

#OccupyWallStreet: Michael Moore Live From Liberty Plaza, Lawrence O'Donnell Show 09.28.11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN82NjWpFy0&feature=player_embedded

[DailyBail]

Occupy America - Cumulative List of Worldwide “Occupy” Events

http://occupyamerica.ning.com/profiles/blogs/occupy-america-cumulative-list-of-worldwide-occupy-events?xg_source=activity

[DailyBail]

I will be off the site for the next 4 hours...a meeting and then dinner with liz and her parents. I'll be back later with more stories.

[Claudia]

Maybe someone needs to spray the bastard right in the face, not only once, but many times so that he can learn a lesson. If justice is not being made by law then the people need to do that so hat this criminal learns what respect to others mean and does not dare to do it again. Why are people afraid of????

[Howard T. Lewis III]

This police chief Kelly S.O.B. thinks covering for who did 9-11 is appropriate, as well. And he thinks covering for who murdered JFK, Jr. is appropriate. He is a piece of human dreck. Armed with a license to kill. Time to fire(literally) Kelly and his boss. And as for Mr. Mace sprayer, America was not built by filthy criminals. They stayed in the background and preyed on pacifists. Beware of your superiors pulling you backwards into the shadows of hell. You will find that the devil does not share his toys.

[Texan]

Let this thug cop come down to Texas, we are gonna beat the sh^%$^ out of him

[Tom]

Bollogna probably thinks he is an American hero saving the nation from "revolutionary hippies". He was more-than-likely one of those thugs who beat the heads of protesters during the 60's when millions took to the streets to protest an immoral and illegal war in Viet Nam. If "our" troops were actually fighting and dying for "freedom and democracy" in other people's nations(they aren't!), they certainly wouldn't be fighting for someone like Bologna!

Geez- this whole pepper-spraying thing is full of bologna! Maybe when someone gets pepper=sprayed and has a fatal reaction this issue will finally be addressed? Most of these police are operating by the book and under orders from superiors, but the "renegades" stirring up trouble and infringing Americans' right to peaceful and legitimate protest should be relieved of their duties.

[TR]

Start at 5:05

http://www.trendsresearch.com/SubscriberArea/gerald-celente-rt-america-28-september-2011

[Alexander Higgins]

Red Coat Officer Has been Dox'd

Kenneth O’Donnell Identified As Red Coat Officer Caught Giving #OccupyWallStreet Protestor Concussion

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/09/30/kenneth-odonnell-identified-red-coat-officer-caught-giving-occupywallstreet-protestor-concussion-73381/

Kenneth O’Donnell
Department: NYPD
Rank: Detective
Badge #: 7432
Tag ID: 231
Notes:
Violence Level: Suspect

Great job everyone!

[eric strong]

ANYONE WHOSE CIVIL RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED BY THE POLICE IN NYC OR ANYWHERE ELSE MUST IMMEDIATELY FILE 42 USC 1983. This civil action goes after their pensions for violating your civil rights. You can take everything they own. you may also sue their supervisors for vicarious liability for failure to supervise and failure to train properly. This allows you to go after their pensions, literally, as well. Nothing hurts more or will stop these thugs more than hitting their pocketbook.. That will STOP this thuggery immediately. We need to separate the good cops following their oath to the Constitution from the rotten thugs.

[DailyBail]

Thanks Alexander...I will post it.

[Canuck]

Jon Stewart Takes On Pepper Spraying Cop Anthony Bologna ~4 min mark. Worth watching all of it though

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-takes-on-pepper-spraying-nypd-cop-anthony-bologna-aka-tony-baloney/

[DailyBail]

Good stuff...thanks Canuck.

[Canuck]

:beercheer: TGIF DB :)