A NYC Deputy Police Inspector Pepper Sprays some women@Demonstration
This screengrab of a video posted on YouTube shows a woman in a gray tank top, left, screaming as pepper spray is shot into a group of protesters.
This blog has many times showed pictures of law breakers on cam. We all forget at times that in this city twice successfully attacked by terrorists, there is little privacy. This knife cuts both ways. In some cases we find the people charged with enforcing the law caught on camera either breaking the law or abusing the discretion that they are given to deal with the public. Particularly when some in this public are unarmed and not a threat to the enforces or anybody else. Just because a law enforcement officer gets pissed off at any one situation, does not give that officer the right to pull any of the weapons given to him/her to protect themselves or the public. It does not required much thinking to see pictures or video or talk to witnesses to know those people protesting behind an orange net, young guys and women were not a thread to anyone. They were not armed with anything except their mouths making a lot of noise and everything you want to call it....but that is the price we pay for a democracy. Peaceful demonstrations...not quiet and neat demonstrations.
Next you will find a report from the local paper, The Staten Island Advance.:
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lSTATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A high-ranking cop seen on video pepper-spraying a group of already fenced-in protesters has been identified as a Staten Island resident. ¶The pepper-spray incident happened on Saturday, during the "Occupy Wall Street" protests in Manhattan. ¶
Videos posted on YouTube.com show two white-shirted police officer walk up to a group of women corralled by what's referred to a mesh barrier and surrounded by police officers. ¶
One of the white-shirted officers — who has since been identified as Dep. Inspector Anthony Bologna, of Westerleigh — takes out a spray canister, looses several bursts of spray into the corral, turns around, re-holsters the canister and walks off. ¶
On Sunday, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne defended the use of pepper spray as "appropriate." ¶
"Pepper spray was used once," he 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." ¶
By Saturday, the blog Davids Camera Craft had posted a close-up photo of Bologna's badge, and Monday afternoon, members of the hacker collective "Anonymous" released a document containing personal information — a possible phone number, names of Bologna's family members, every address in public records the group could find, and the docket of a lawsuit where he's named as a defendant. ¶
Yesterday afternoon, a police patrol was spotted keeping watch on Bologna's home, while newspaper photographers staked out his street. ¶
"We were shocked and disgusted by your behavior. You know who the innocent women were, now they will have the chance to know who you are,"Anonymous writes above the document. "Before you commit atrocities against innocent people, think twice. WE ARE WATCHING!!! Expect Us!" ¶
Anonymous, a loosely-knit collective of hackers and protestors known for wearing Guy Fawkes masks, have in the past targeted the Church of Scientology, the Gawker blog network, and critics of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. ¶
The NYPD has not yet released a statement on the release of Bologna's name.
Anthony Bologna, as identified in a photo by Twitter user @jeffrae.
Here's video of the incident:
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