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Pepper-spray policeman gets reprimanded by NYPD
Published: 19 October, 2011, 23:12
The New York Police Department has come down on the NYPD officer caught on camera for infamously pepper-spraying peaceful female protesters during the early days of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Cops carry forward vacation time. He has over twenty years in and is sitting on close to nine months of vacation time. If I pepper sprayed a cop in NYC they would beat you badly and put you away for a few months. How does this guy keep his job. This is not his first case of excessive force.
He should have been fired, instead he gets a slap on the wrist. I knew that was going to happen! This is precisely why cops keep doing these horrible things to people, no consequences and they feel above the law. Just terrible...
Tony Balony should be subject to criminal charges and should have been fired. He assaulted people who posed to imminent threat to anyone.
If you or I had done this, we would rightly be prosecuted and would probably have to serve jail time.
The fact that he got away with this shows that we can never trust the police to investigate themselves. This fact breeds mistrust and animosity towards all police, despite the fact that most act professionally.
If the NYPD does not find a way to police miscreant behavior within their own ranks, they will continue to see all the good PR they had after 9-11 evaporate very quickly.
Commissioner Kelly should be FIRED for allowing this incident to go without any consequence. But since he was "protecting" the interests of Wall St, you can bet that will never happen.
ooooo....some 'reprimand'...Tony Bolony doesn't get to go to the Bahamas this year and show off his fat gold chains....I suggest he use his time wisely & take some self-defense courses in case he's attacked by a woman half his size again.