High-ranking NYPD inspector transferred to Staten Island command after 'Occupy Wall Street' pepper s

[a kennedy]

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The high-ranking NYPD cop caught on video blasting pepper spray at a group of fenced-in Occupy Wall Street protesters last month has been shuffled into a borough command post on Staten Island — where he lives.
Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna — who last week was docked 10 vacation days for violating NYPD guidelines following the Sept. 24 incident — was transferred on Monday from Patrol Borough Manhattan South to a position as special projects coordinator here, an NYPD source told the Advance.

He now reports to the borough command headquarters in New Dorp, just a few miles away from his Westerleigh home.

The Sept. 24 incident took place during the starting days of the protests, and drew a national media spotlight to the movement.

Videos from multiple angles show a group of women, fenced in by orange netting, yelling, "Shame, shame!" as they watch police tackle a man with a camera during a tense moment at Fifth Avenue and 12th Street.

A few seconds later, Bologna, who is wearing a white shirt that indicates a command rank, takes out a canister, looses several bursts of the pepper spray into the corral, turns around, re-holsters the canister and strides off. Another video shows Bologna using pepper spray on a second group of protesters.

Two days after the incident members of the hacker collective "Anonymous" released a document containing personal information on Bologna — a possible phone number, names of Bologna’s family members, every address in public records the group could find, and the docket of a lawsuit where he’s named as a defendant.

http://www.silive.com/northshore/index.ssf/2011/10/high...

[Lint Head]

1. At least the PD did a 'little' something.

[EFerrari]

14. Yeah and now he has at least two incidents of abuse in his file.

Anonymous and the intertubes did very well.

[firehorse]

2. great.... Staten Island is a mini red state. The man is a beligerent thug and should be fired.

[seabeyond]

3. demotion? promotion? lateral move? nt

[tk2kewl]

4. i think it's lateral bu8t like being sent to siberia as NYPD goes

[seabeyond]

9. works for me, then. thanks. nt

[Pacifist Patriot]

5. shorter commute jumped out at me

[firehorse]

7. my thoughts too, he probably already lives there. Transfer him to Bushwick.

[tk2kewl]

11. i think anonymous had his phone # witrh a 518 area code

that would put his home in the hudson valley

[Pacifist Patriot]

13. I made my comment because the article included the words "where he lives."

*shrug*

[tk2kewl]

16. hmmm

maybe

[Pacifist Patriot]

17. It's difficult to tell anything from phone numbers anymore.

When people call to inquire about my services I find that about a third with "local" numbers are actually living out of state and people with other area codes are living here locally. People are hanging on to their cell numbers after they move. And then again, who knows if Anonymous has the correct phone number. Likewise, who knows if the article is accurate.

[sharp_stick]

6. Staten Island is a career killer

for a command level cop. He's pretty much been consigned to Siberia.

[seabeyond]

8. that is what i was hoping. good to know. nt

[firehorse]

10. He'll still get his pay and sweet pension.

[sharp_stick]

19. There is pretty much nothing that will ever

cause him to lose his pension or his job. The NYPD police association has a pretty good grip on that.

[Walk away]

12. Not good enough. nt

[sharp_stick]

20. You're right

but it's pretty much as good as you'd ever expect to get with an NYPD cop especially one in the command structure.

[Renew Deal]

15. That sounds like punishment to me.

SI and downtown Manhattan are very different places. I'd rather be downtown.

[ArtiChoke]

18. Enjoy coordinating your 'special project' and collecting $142k, jerkoff-nt

[firehorse]

21. wow, sadists make a lot of money these days. He would have liked working at Gitmo