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Kaylee Dedrick and Robert Grodt (via NYDN)

Occupy Wall Street's Pepper Spray Romance Just Got a Little Bit Shady

Remember the beautiful story of love amongst the protesters? When Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna used his pepper spray on the young Kaylee Dedrick, her savior came in the form of a young man from Santa Cruz named Robert Grodt, who dragged Ms. Dedrick to safety and washed her face in a utility closet. The two claimed to have been inseparable ever since the September 24th attack. So why did Mr. Grodt talk to the Wall Street Journal about all the women he was banging exactly one month later? Read More

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Did Bologna Use Too Much Pepper(-Spray)? District Attorney’s Office Investigates

While the NYPD continues to make promises of an investigation of Deputy Inspector Anthony “Tony Bologna” Bologna‘s use of pepper-spray on unarmed female protesters during Saturday’s Occupy Wall Street protests, he has yet to be disciplined. Despite videos showing two separate incidents of what appears to be unwarranted and abusive use of the weapon, Inspector Bologna still remains in active service. While that may seem like a grave injustice to women like Chelsea Elliott who were harmed during the attacks, the public outcry has been strong enough for the offices of Manhattan D.A. Cyrus R. Vance Jr. to launch a separate investigation into the case. Read More

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Second Video of Pepper-Spraying Officer Anthony Bologna + History Of Violence = NYPD PR Disaster

We were willing to give NYPD’s Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna the benefit of the doubt when we called the video of his pepper-spraying defenseless female protestors on Wall Street last Saturday a case of “alleged” police brutality. We even somewhat sympathized with him (well, at least his family) when Anonymous leaked all his personal information to the Internet on Monday.

The New York Observer was reserving judgment on Officer Bologna, because there is a lot of misinformation being spread out there by both the NYPD and “Occupy New York” sympathizers. But now a second video has surfaced of Bologna using the pepper-spray on another group during Saturday’s protests, just to get them out of his way. Read More