Tony Bologna With A Side Of Pepper Spray Docked 10 Vacation Days

[one_voice]

The NYC Deputy Inspector pepper sprayed a woman just because. His punishment? He was docked 10 days of his vacation pay. From the New York Times:

The Internal Affairs Bureau reviewed the episode and found that Inspector Bologna “used pepper spray outside departmental guidelines,” said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman. He declined to elaborate.

Boloney, er, Bologna, is not too happy with his punishment and hasn’t decided if he’ll sign on to it, despite its leniency.

“Deputy Inspector Bologna is disappointed at the results of the Department investigation. His actions prevented further injury and escalation of tumultuous conduct,” said Roy Richter, president of the NYPD Captains Endowment Association.

One of the victims, Kaylee Dedrick, is pressing charges and wants to see Bologna convicted of misdemeanor assault charges, which would likely result in probation and anger management classes.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/10/19/tony-bologna-with-a-side-of-pepper-spray-docked-10-vacation-days-videos/

[piratefish08]

1. 10 more days he can be on the street to abuse the citizens of NYC - fucking great!

[saras]

3. It would have made more sense to dock him ten WORKING days. Or ten years.

Personally I think the only pepper he should be allowed near is the little packets he gives you with your burger and fries.

[enough]

2. This has a Dickensian beauty to it. The truth it reveals is so perfect and deep.

Except it's not fiction, so I don't guess beauty is the word to use.

[Bozita]

9. !

Well said!

[NYC_SKP]

4. Civil case can be brought against him, no?

And/or against the city?

:shrug:

[mopinko]

8. here in chicago we dish out millions a year for this shit.

hope rahm takes a few of these assholes to the woodshed.

[DFW]

5. What Mr. Baloney needs

Is about ten days of morning and night doses of pepper spray in his face.

[DesertFlower]

6. i agree. nt

[Lint Head]

7. This jerk should be fired and relegated to cleaning up the park.

[Bozita]

10. If Tony Bologna were a teacher, ...

... immediate dismissal and enough criminal charges to decorate a xmas tree.

[louslobbs]

11. During all of his years, I wonder how many times he got away with breaking the law under the color

of authority and never got caught, only to get caught now and receive a slap on the wrist for his criminal behavior. My biological father was a cop, I know all too well how many of them believe they are above the law and how far many of them will go to protect each other.

Let's just put it this way, I remember my biological father talking with his brothers in blue about how they would plant "evidence" on people, including, but not limited to "planted drugs, knives and even guns if the need arose to facilitate the "stories" they were going to tell in their end of shift reports.

Of course, this was at a time when there was no internet, and there were no small cameras or cell phones to document their criminal behavior, and although the advent of these technologies has curbed their behavior to some degree, there still exists a mind set among many that is truly frightening.

I believe that this mind set still exists, and in some cases is allowed to flourish, because many of the "brothers in blue," will protect each other at all costs, since breaking the unwritten rule of crossing that "blue line," could result in former "brothers in blue" harassing and verbally assaulting any officer who does not tow the line and in the worst case scenario, officers not reacting so quickly to back up the "snitch" officer to teach them a lesson.

I remember the chief of police coming over to our house to go down into the basement in order to get first pick of what his patrol officers had stolen during the course of their shifts. I knew why we were not allowed in the basement (warehouse) and why "dad" would advise us to "see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil" if we knew what was good for us.

Many of those who have assembled around the country in our 99% Occupy wall street movement have never had first hand experience with the police and I believe up until now, many still believed that the police were on our side to "serve and protect" all of us. It's not very difficult for many who used to respect the police, to begin thinking of the police as their enemy, but as more people are manhandled, maced or beaten by the police for simply gathering and protesting, the more people will come to fear and lose respect for those who are only proving that they "serve and protect" the rich and powerful.
Lou