From the article at title:
Pedestrians were seemingly content on the streets of upper Manhattan Friday, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg believes there’s an undercurrent of economic distress that could upset the tranquil street scene.
“You have a lot of kids graduating college, can’t find jobs, that’s what happened in Cairo. That’s what happened in Madrid. You don’t want those kind of riots here,” Bloomberg said on his Friday morning radio show....
Michael Bloomberg's prediction is an excuse for police brutality? Since when? Oh, I know, the Egyptian demonstrations began with one woman and a cell phone. Right.
...Turns out Anthony Bologna (click here), the police identified by Annonymous as the guy holding the pepper spray, had been accused of civil rights violations six years earlier.
The Guardian talked to civil rights lawyer Alan Levine, who filed an action against Bologna in 2004—during the lead-up to the Republican National Convention in New York—on behalf of a man named Post A Posr. According to Levine, Posr approached a man in a car "festooned with anti-abortion slogans" in order to engage in discussion—until Bologna became involved:
Levine said: "Police contend that Posr hit the man with a rolled-up newspaper. He said he was just talking to the guy. Bologna ordered another officer, Camejo, to arrest Posr."
Posr was charged with two counts of disorderly conduct and one count of second degree harassment, and held until September 2. On November 8, all charges against him were dropped.
Levine said that, in a departure from normal police procedure, his client was held in a special detention facility, at Pier 57, where he and others arrested were held until the protests were over.
New York City promotes men that incite incidents with citizens to be a role model to all the others. They are all paid for it at that. Bologna is a commander.
