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09.28.11 - 8:27 PM
Investigating Bologna
New York City officials have reversed themselves and announced two investigations - by the police department and the D.A.'s office - into the egregious pepper spray attack on Wall Street protesters by NYPD cop Anthony Bologna. Even while noting that a second, equally incriminating video of Bologna randomly macing bystanders had surfaced, the Times story was full of bet-hedging and back-pedalling; that, and history, do not bode well for a just outcome.
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Show AllHey, Bologna! Yer fired!
Promoted and given a vacation is more likely.
PAID vacation, that's a crucial part not to forget.
Screw that! Someone needs to feed him that microphone stuck on his shirt.
Wall St. , now has the police in there pocket.When the revolution comes and we all eat them alive thay will say omg.They will be tasty and there money wont save them because when theres nothing to loose we have every thing to gain.they will stop the jobs put republicans in office. use smoke and mirrors to say look over there not at us, and what we are doing.They will strip away our rights a little at a time, an try to make us all slaves to big busness.Thay forget how many hungry homless trained killers the milatary has trained since the late 50s .Dont belive for a second thay wont stoup so low that they will even piss off the Vets.If thay some how are that greadyThen thay will have to sleep in that bed.they all need lessons on how to respect there roots,give back.pay it forward or get eaten alive by the havenots.Read the recent history of what has just happend over seas .Didnt they see what happens when people have nothing to loose.
Somewhere in Mafia Land a village is missing a henchman.
It wasn't a violent nature toward peaceful protestors, it was violent actions.
I'd like to dirty that clean white shirt Mr. Meat-By-Product (no offense to the rest of your clan). You don't deserve the nice uniform you wear or any perks you may have received in the past. I don't usually call names but you are a scumball for taking the liberties that you do.
Obersturmfurhrer Anthony 'Tony Baloney' Bologna is not alone in his violence toward the Wall St. Protestors.
New evidence is surfacing of an NYPD member punching a protestor in the face without provocation, while in another incident a different officer forced another protestor to urinate on herself.
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/09/28/caught-camera-nydp-punches-occupy-wall-street-protestor-face-apparent-reason-72051 (this is the punch)
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/09/27/nyc-police-force-occupy-wall-street-protest-pee-pants-71351/ ( The forced urination and humiliation)
So much for Tony Baloney being an 'isolated incident'...
This is still America? I was not whisked away by my Ruby shoes to the land of OZ?
What the hell is happening? Those cops are a threat to homeland security!
As Native Americans often say: "Welcome to the Reservation." And I can imagine Latinos and African-Americans nodding their heads.
Welcome to the 1960s, my friend. Whatever the picture painted by the corporatist textbooks about what happened and who we were back then, this is what it looked like. And there was a lot of it.
Exactly!
The fifties and sixties for treatment of protesters. The thirties on steroids for treatment of unions, family farms and working people. Perfect storm.
Do you mean the 1870's to the 1890s, or the 1920's? The 1930's represented an era of the biggest union victories - since reversed by Taft-Hartley in the 1950's and hostile judges. The National Labor Relations Act, the espablishment of the Dept. of Labor, Labor Sec. Frances Perkins...
Can you re-post those? They seem to have been 404'd.
They worked fine when I checked them. Maybe try leaving out the brackets and their contents?
Stay on top of this people.
I love the smell of ham frying
Smells best when really burned.
Wow, a DOUBLE whitewash in the works!
It is a little weird, everyone in that picture has a camera but whiteshirt. Maybe he needs to get one.
On another site I saw what the police chief and commissioner said at the press conference and there is NO way this will be an honest investigation. They were excusing his actions at the press conference, what chance is there for fairness and an honest look into what happened? NONE. This will be just another whitewashing of a sadist cop's actions.
I dunno WJM. Under normal circumstances I wouuld agree wholeheartedly, but this asshole got a *LOT* of publicity that the NYPD doesn't want or need. He actually might get sacrificed at the alter just for publicity purposes.
Whatever...one can always hope, eh?
"but this asshole got a *LOT* of publicity that the NYPD doesn't want or need."
The NYPD will shrug this one off easily. Compared to what it did to Amadou Diallo or Abner Louima -- actions from which the NYPD emerged with its impunity uncompromised -- this is nothing. Except that it happened to white people, which isn't enough to make any real difference.
Much as I disagree with violence I am told this spraying is not violent and waterboarding is not torture.
Therefore I recommend a good spraying of Bologna followed by a humanitarian waterboarding to wash it away.
Great one, Sanctuary! I second that.
If you think 'Tony Baloney' is an aberration, think again...
Here are some vids proving that cops have an attitude problem with anyone who is not a badge carrying goon:
Canton, Oh PD stop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kassP7zI0qc
Woman Tasered for no reason: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AaSLERx0VM
John Williams shot dead in Seattle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5IDdUxzs1s&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL4AC025CAEFAB887C
Man in Toronto, Ontario Tasered on balcony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKE4ajyRVSU
Toronto (again) cops beat man in custody with batons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DkduN-Px5E&NR=1
Denver Police beat witness of bogus stop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfmjlEHA4Ug&feature=related
Oh look! NYPD beat a man 20 TIMES for WWB (Walking While Black) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTipr2YvOJU&feature=fvwrel
Kelowna, BC RCMP kick man in face: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqnnimZPorg
Vancouver Police attack Down Town East Side woman with MS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8K7j5olaeg
VPD twists man arm for jaywalking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atyBa9HYDIA&feature=related
Ottawa Police brutalize a female prisoner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqjc4acdOnI&feature=relmfu
These are just some of the THOUSANDS of videos documenting Police brutality. So if you think that Tony is an 'isolated incident' ,think again.
Thanks for highlighting several incidents of police brutality out of the thousands that have happened. And of course, the cops cover each others backs.
We have in America, our own version of black shirts and brown shirts, and the public is slowly starting to figure out who's side the cops are on.
NYC should build a monument to Frank Serpico, the NYPD's Finest, an honest detective who woudn't go along with graft and corruption and paid the penalty for it.
Ya know, the problem with all of this is the victims simply *CANNOT* fight back or even defend themselves. To do so means a felony "assulting a police officer" charge at minimum and if yo do anything other than wrestle with him, they will charge you with attempted murder.
Cops are such fucking cowards!!! They know that anyone if anyone even ever looks at them the wrong way they can call for backup, beat the living shit out of the "suspect" and then charge them with a list of crimes so long they will spend the rest of their life behind bars. You can't win and they can't loose...unless the two of you are alone without any witnesses. Of course even then it's your word against the pig's and they are trained and professional liers.
This is what riots are for!
I have watched this video several times on TV, mostly from Lawrence O'Donnell's "The Last Word" (keep pushing this, Larry!) and my sense of outrage and anger is such that I could pick up an aluminum baseball bat and reduce Inspector Bologna's skull to a pulp without a bit of regret.
So finally, the difference between that officer and you ... is what?
Obviously, he broke the law, he attacked people for no reason ... well, no reason
that you/me are able to understand; but probably he was also angry for some stupid
reason. Answer? He turns to violence.
And your answer to that? Proposing violence and killing someone with your own
hands? Is that really the answer?
If you want to make the world a better place, start with the one thing that you can
influence: your own thoughts and actions ...
Dumbo
You may be right. Bologna should not be executed for what he had done. However, I would be satisfied if the citizens of this country could receive some kind of guarantee that Bologna:
1] would receive a minimum of ten years in jail for what he had done.
2] would never be placed in a position of authority over anyone in the United States.
3] would pay financial compensation [in the amount of at least six figures] to those young women whom he had wrongfully pepper sprayed.
I completely agree to your request to bring this "police officer" to justice. Besides that; I am European; therefore i am not too familiar with the US "penalty" systems; so I have no idea what how a rightful punishment should look like.
One thing to keep in mind: one basic idea of democracy is that "laws" apply to everybody ... in the same way. The whole idea of making up an example; for example by extremely hard sentences for violent protesters in the UK recently ... is already mocking democracy. Sentencing somebody "+5 years" to send out a message to OTHER people is plain wrong; no matter if we are talking about protesters in the UK; or violent NYPD staff.
The US, under Bush AND Obama have been holding hundreds of people abducted from their homes on hearsay accusations and have held them in horrendous conditions that you would be sent to jail for keeping a dog in, for almost a decade, with no trial, often with physical brutality and torture, with no hope of release, all to 'send a message' to those they wish to oppress in Afghanistan and Iraq.
So why not do the same to a vicious thug with a badge at home?
You see fellows, Officer Bologna has done this before. He wasn' angry, he likes to be a hardass...it builds his ego. He is a bully.
Locking him up won't deflate that ego he has that gets inflated everytime he uses his applied authority against someone else, that's what bullies do. He may get locked up but he will be placed in segregated housing to protect him from the rest of the population that were he in it would eat him alive.
No, he needs his ass kicked thoroughly. Not killed, just badly bruised, both bodily and ego, that is is the medicine that cures bullies of their assinine behavior forever.
"One thing to keep in mind: one basic idea of democracy is that "laws" apply to everybody ... in the same way."
Hm, I really believe 'laws' were created to divide and conquer. A means to control your population. 99.99% of the laws we have today have nothing to do with 'justice', but with oppression. 'Democracy' is a delusion. Do you know any really working 'Democracy' on this planet? I only know 'Democrazies', where propaganda dictates the perception of such.
In theory 'laws' apply to everybody', but only in theory. Alone recent history is full of Bushes that got away with mass murder.
Uninformed and dumbed down Americans obviously forgot their history lesson about ancient European cultures.
"Democracy is a form of government in which all people have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. Ideally, this includes equal (and more or less direct) participation in the proposal, development and passage of legislation into law. It can also encompass social, economic and cultural conditions that enable the free and equal practice of political self-determination. The term comes from the Greek: δημοκρατία – (dēmokratía) "rule of the people",[1] which was coined from δῆμος (dêmos) "people" and κράτος (Kratos) "power", in the middle of the 5th-4th century BC to denote the political systems then existing in some Greek city-states, notably Athens following a popular uprising in 508 BC." Wiki.
Obviously we lost our 'democracy' when the rulers changed: "...all people have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives..."
In quintessence we are sold a totalitarian regime for a democracy. The so called 'Police Force' is nothing but a tool AGAINST us. The times of 'Serve & Protect' are over. Therefor we don't need any cops anymore when we have to protect ourselves and what kind of services do cops give? Never saw a cop helping a grandmother over the street.
Their job is to control, pepperspray and to arrest us.
What a joke. You say you're against violence as punishment so you think of some other insane form of punishment where we don't directly harm him - let's lock him up in a dangerous place that has a huge reputation for violence against cops, then we crush his career prospects, assuming he's not going to come out of prison by retirement age and also that he's been a cop for a long while, oh and let's finish with having him pay out six figures to people that got maced. Sign me up for a macing.
nevermored
\What exactly do you think should be done to Bologna? Nothing? He deliberately attacked those young women with pepper spray for absolutely no justifiable reason whatsoever. Though you may wish us, for some inexplicable reason, to feel sorry for Bologna, my sympathies are instead directed toward Bologna's victims.
You are astounded that we [though that apparently does not include you] would wish to "crush his career prospects". It does not seem to have occurred to you that a sadist like Bologna does not belong on the police force. While you may be greatly concerned about Bologna's fate I, on the other hand, have much more pity and compassion for his victims who, again, should never have felt the wrath of Bologna's pepper spray.
Is Bologna's job To Protect and Serve or is to instead inflict bodily harm and misery upon those who have the temerity to exercise their First Amendment rights?
I also do indeed feel that those women have every right to sue Bologna for damages for the emotional and physical trauma that he inflicted upon them and which, again, was entirely unwarranted.
To paraphrase from your word, your comments could almost be construed as being comical if they were not so tragic and misguided.
"So finally, the difference between that officer and you ... is what?"
Jesus you privleged bourgeois peacenicks are a confused lot. The difference between the cop and the protestor is one wields the enormous power of his capitalist masters and the other has no power. The use and non-use of violence is a completely separate issue - but history shows that sometimes nothing else works at achieving power for the down-trodden but violence.
Thanks pjd. i think your argument also applies to the "defenders" of Israeli ambassador Oren's speech at U Irvine who condemn the heroic actions og the muslim students who challenged Oren's right to speak unopposed.
"If you want to make the world a better place, start with the one thing that you can
influence: your own thoughts and actions ..."
Such delusional claptrap.
Not claptrap when applied to personal relationships.
Complete claptrap when applied to political change, once again proving that the personal and the political are not identical.
New York's finest - corporate skin head.
Take him back 20 years and teach him to speak with an Afrikaans accent. Pretty sure he'd fit right in.
Take him right back to the US in the 1960s and he would fit right in.
Am I to understand that Brownshirts are no longer fashionable in New York and that they are now called Whiteshirts?
Back in the day, the cops came in with thier "Serve and Protect" slogan on the sides of thier cruisers. The roar came up from the crowd: "Serve the Bosses, Protect the State". (I think it came from the PLP contingent). Make no mistake about it, this most certainly IS Class Warfare. And the Pigs are there to protect the interests of thier bosses, the ruing class. Never what cops do are individual, isolated events. They are the enemy!
If you look at his face, you can tell he's enjoying himself. The vicious little pr--- is having a great time. He's a killer, a rogue, a psychopath. What is it about our times that such creatures are emboldened to crawl out from under their rocks?
He commited a violent crime. Battery. He should not only be sentenced for each count he commited but also taken to civil court as well.
Can you imagine if you or I walked up and pepper sprayed a group of police officers? We would be in prison and broke for life. He deserves nothing less.