Agorism
09-27-2011, 06:57 PM
Pepper-Spraying Cop Accused of Abusing Bush Protesters in 2004
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/pepper-spraying-cop-accused-abusing-bush-pro
Activists have identified the senior New York Police Department officer who allegedly pepper-sprayed young women at the "Occupy Wall Street" protests, and it's not the first time he has been accused of civil rights abuses.
The Guardian confirmed that the officer is Anthony Bologna, who was also accused of civil rights abuses and false arrest during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City.
Photographs of the officer's badge also suggested that Bologna was the person in question.
A file released by the hacker group Anonymous pointed to a 2007 civil rights suit filed against Bologna.
Post A. Posr, the man named as a plaintiff in that suit, was arrested during the 2004 convention although he wasn't actively taking part in the protests.
"Police contend that Posr hit the man with a rolled-up newspaper," Posr lawyer Alan Levine told The Guardian. "He said he was just talking to the guy. Bologna ordered another officer, Camejo, to arrest Posr."
Posr was taken to a make-shift detention facility at Pier 57, where he was held until the protests were over.
Officer Tulio Camejo was also named in the suit.
"A bunch of us were wondering if any of the same guys were involved," Levine recalled.
Questions about Bologna appeared to go back to 2001, when the People's Law Collective claimed that arrests he made helped to incite a Mayday riot.
Chelsea Elliott, one of the pepper-sprayed activists, described her ordeal to Animal New York.
"I will march again," she said. "But I'll wear sunglasses and a fucking bandana."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/27/occupy-wall-street-anthony-bologna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moD2JnGTToA
Captain Anthony Bologna gets his own precinct
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_113/afteryearsoftrouble.html
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_113/copper.jpg
In a vivid account of the incident in the Boston Review, Mansfield said: "A white-shirt, now known to be NYPD Lieutenant Anthony Bologna, comes from the left, walks straight up to the three young girls at the front of the crowd, and pepper-sprays them in the face for a few seconds, continuing as they scream 'No! Why are you doing that?!'"
Despite her attempts to turn away from the "unavoidable" spray, Mansfield, who took part in Saturday's march with her boyfriend on a whim after "stumbling across" it, said she suffered burning and temporary blindness in her left eye and tears streaming down her face.
She continued: "In the street I shout for water to rinse my eyes or give to the girls on the ground. But no one responds. One of the blue-shirts, tall and bald, stares in disbelief and says, 'I can't believe he just fuckin' maced her.'"
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gc93lUcE6jg/Tn5z_asDDjI/AAAAAAAAA1s/4Wch_SlPFUk/s1600/Occupy+Wall+Street+Turns+Violent-4.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Op3XR82NtVg/Tn_fIJpC89I/AAAAAAAAA2g/EL00KwtYiqA/s1600/Occupy+Wall+Street+close+up+of+badge.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D0hbkoGoYWU/Tn_iStXz-gI/AAAAAAAAA2k/UdWKrirs4WI/s640/Occupy+Wall+Street+20.jpg
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/pepper-spraying-cop-accused-abusing-bush-pro
Activists have identified the senior New York Police Department officer who allegedly pepper-sprayed young women at the "Occupy Wall Street" protests, and it's not the first time he has been accused of civil rights abuses.
The Guardian confirmed that the officer is Anthony Bologna, who was also accused of civil rights abuses and false arrest during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City.
Photographs of the officer's badge also suggested that Bologna was the person in question.
A file released by the hacker group Anonymous pointed to a 2007 civil rights suit filed against Bologna.
Post A. Posr, the man named as a plaintiff in that suit, was arrested during the 2004 convention although he wasn't actively taking part in the protests.
"Police contend that Posr hit the man with a rolled-up newspaper," Posr lawyer Alan Levine told The Guardian. "He said he was just talking to the guy. Bologna ordered another officer, Camejo, to arrest Posr."
Posr was taken to a make-shift detention facility at Pier 57, where he was held until the protests were over.
Officer Tulio Camejo was also named in the suit.
"A bunch of us were wondering if any of the same guys were involved," Levine recalled.
Questions about Bologna appeared to go back to 2001, when the People's Law Collective claimed that arrests he made helped to incite a Mayday riot.
Chelsea Elliott, one of the pepper-sprayed activists, described her ordeal to Animal New York.
"I will march again," she said. "But I'll wear sunglasses and a fucking bandana."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/27/occupy-wall-street-anthony-bologna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moD2JnGTToA
Captain Anthony Bologna gets his own precinct
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_113/afteryearsoftrouble.html
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_113/copper.jpg
In a vivid account of the incident in the Boston Review, Mansfield said: "A white-shirt, now known to be NYPD Lieutenant Anthony Bologna, comes from the left, walks straight up to the three young girls at the front of the crowd, and pepper-sprays them in the face for a few seconds, continuing as they scream 'No! Why are you doing that?!'"
Despite her attempts to turn away from the "unavoidable" spray, Mansfield, who took part in Saturday's march with her boyfriend on a whim after "stumbling across" it, said she suffered burning and temporary blindness in her left eye and tears streaming down her face.
She continued: "In the street I shout for water to rinse my eyes or give to the girls on the ground. But no one responds. One of the blue-shirts, tall and bald, stares in disbelief and says, 'I can't believe he just fuckin' maced her.'"
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gc93lUcE6jg/Tn5z_asDDjI/AAAAAAAAA1s/4Wch_SlPFUk/s1600/Occupy+Wall+Street+Turns+Violent-4.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Op3XR82NtVg/Tn_fIJpC89I/AAAAAAAAA2g/EL00KwtYiqA/s1600/Occupy+Wall+Street+close+up+of+badge.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D0hbkoGoYWU/Tn_iStXz-gI/AAAAAAAAA2k/UdWKrirs4WI/s640/Occupy+Wall+Street+20.jpg