Anthony Bologna of NYPD Part of Long History of Police Brutality, Cover-Ups

[XanaDUer]

By Melanie Jones | September 29, 2011 2:46 PM EDT

The police brutality witnessed Saturday during the "Occupy Wall Street" protests, in particular the alleged pepper spray attack of several female protestors by Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, has provoked incredulity and rage across the nation. Such brutality, however, is part of a long history of the NYPD...

In 2009, Leonard Levitt, former NYPD beat correspondent for Newsweek, wrote "NYPD Confidential: Power and Corruption in the Country's Greatest Police Force." In it, he chronicled over twenty years of dirty cops, department scandals, and institutional corruption, including numerous cases where police brutality was swept under the rug, including the 1999 shooting of Amadou Diallo and the brutal torturing of Abner Louima in 1997.

Such cases occurred over twenty years ago, remnants of what the 1994 Mollen Commission called "today's corruption... characterized by brutality, theft, abuse of authority and active police criminality."

A 2001 report recovered by intelligence blog Cyptome claims Bologna is "notorious for his previous treatment of protesters," and described an allegation by the People's Law Collective that said Bologna shoved two protesters before later returning to arrest them.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/222251/20110929/anthony-bologna-nypd.htm

[Ian David]

1. Police Joke About Protestor Abuse VIA Private Police Messageboard

Police Joke About Protestor Abuse VIA Private Police Messageboard
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2025102

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2. K&R

i hate violent cops who abuse their power.

[Aerows]

3. Those who abuse their power

aren't fit to have it.

[XanaDUer]

4. Kick

nt.

[Major Nikon]

5. NYC doesn't have anything on PD's in the south

At least politicians in NY pretend like they care. Politicians in the south see racism and police brutality as a feather in their cap.

[Hoosier Daddy]

6. Joey Salami is even worse!

Sorry. Couldn't resist. K&R