It is highly unlikely that anything will happen to former deli owner and current police inspector Tony Baloney as a result of this investigation (after all, cops routinely get away with killing people and this was only pepper spray), but you
October 10, 2011

It is highly unlikely that anything will happen to former deli owner and current police inspector Tony Baloney as a result of this investigation (after all, cops routinely get away with killing people and this was only pepper spray), but you never know. They might come up with a minor infraction and give him a symbolic punishment so they can claim "justice" was done. Which is the exact same approach all those people in Zuccotti Park are protesting, but you know how it goes:

The police and Manhattan prosecutors are separately examining a high-ranking officer’s use of pepper spray on a number of female protesters at a demonstration on Saturday.

Raymond W. Kelly, commissioner of the New York Police Department, said Wednesday that its Internal Affairs Bureau would look at the decision by the officer, Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, to use pepper spray, even as Mr. Kelly criticized the protesters for “tumultuous conduct.”

At the same time, the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., has opened an investigation into the episode, which was captured on video and disseminated on the Internet, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the inquiry is continuing.

Inspector Bologna was identified on Wednesday in another video spraying others in the Occupy Wall Street demonstration with pepper spray. Recordings of the episodes show Inspector Bologna striding through a chaotic street scene along East 12th Street, where officers arrested some protesters and corralled others behind orange mesh netting.

Deputy Inspector Roy T. Richter, the head of the Captains Endowment Association, the union that represents the upper echelons of city officers, said Inspector Bologna, who formerly led the 1st Precinct and now works in counterterrorism, would “cooperate with whatever investigative body the police commissioner designates to perform this review.”

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