Will Anthony Bologna be prosecuted for this ?
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September 26th, 2011
Posted to General to get answers to these two questions :
Will he faces charges ?
Will he be acquitted ?
Opinions about whether or not he deserves it or about the women he assaulted deserved it are off-topic except to directly support a line of reasoning leading to your conclusion about one of those questions.
I want to know whether or not those will happen…
Anthony Bologna has allegedly pepper sprayed several women, who were standing on a sidewalk, in the face, at point blank range.
He is also an NYPD Deputy Inspector and the women are protesters who were marching from a site near Wall Street to Union Square a few miles to the North last weekend.
Details are now spreading on the web but this is near the center of it.
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Your link just brings me back to this question.
I don’t have enough details to issue an informed opinion at this time.
I asked a question about this the other day. I am trying to keep up but didn’t realize the NYPD officer’s name had been released. Thanks for the update.
Stories now say the detective’s name was released by someone associated with the hacker group Anonymous this evening. They had lots of photos to work with and matched the face to other pics with his badge on it.
Tonight when we walked around Ziccotti Square, I noticed a fellow with a Guy Fawlkes mask over his head sitting at a laptop at the live uplink area (there is some kind of communal WiFi hotspot). Anonymous members have been known to sport those in solidarity.
Pepper spray is assault and should be prosecuted as such.
@dabbler I certainly hope the officer will be prosecuted for using excessive force if the evidence merits it, and from what I have seen it does. I just don’t want to judge entirely from the video. I haven’t checked since yesterday but there appear to be two different videos, shot from slightly different angels (lol, I think I will leave that typo be), I meant angles, and the rest are just copies and variations of those two. There have been a number of variations posted that slow the footage down so it is a little clearer as to what seems to have happened. Are there more than two as far as you know?
The rest is speculation. The officer hasn’t even been charged, how can anyone speculate as to whether or not, if he is, he will be found guilty or aquitted? And there really seems to be no point in speculating on what the outcome of a trial would be for a defendant that hasn’t even been indicted if you ask me.
Given that we can be arrested and charged with assault for spitting on a cop, if the facts warrant it he should be for pepper spraying those women.
@Judi thanks, I hadn’t seen that.
Here’s the “re-write” piece about that specifically link. He does sound pretty unhopeful about prosecution.
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