photo by Jim Kiernan / http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimkiernan/sets/72157627623086865/

A photographer has identified the cruel and cowardly NYPD supervisor who point blank maced a penned in group of young women and then slinks away Saturday at the Occupy Wall Street protests:

Deputy Inspector Anthony V. Bologna of the NYPD Patrol Borough Manhattan South.

TAKE ACTION

If you think Deputy Inspector Bologna should be fired and prosecuted for his abuse of power, file an on-line complaint with:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg : http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html

: http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html and, NYPD Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly : http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mailnypd.html

: http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mailnypd.html and, the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board: https://www.nyc.gov/html/ccrb/html/complaint.html



UPDATED: The Guardian reported that Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna also stands accused of false arrest and civil rights violations in a claim brought by a protester involved in the 2004 demonstrations at the Republican National Convention. Then, 1,800 people were arrested during protests against the Iraq war and the policies of president George W Bush. Alan Levine, a civil rights lawyer representing a protester at the event, told the Guardian that he filed an action against Bologna and another officer in 2007. The case is expected to be heard next year.



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Photo/ http://www.thevillager.com/villager_113/afteryearsoftrouble.html

Slow-Motion Video of Saturday's Macing Assault

And, James Fallows at The Atlantic writes:

According to the NYT, the chief police spokesman, Paul Browne, said that the policeman used pepper spray "appropriately." Great. On the video we can't hear what either side is saying. But at face value, the casualness of the officer who saunters over, sprays right in the women's eyes, and then slinks away without a backward glance, as if he'd just put down an animal, does not match my sense of "appropriate" behavior by officers of the law in a free society.

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