Comments on: Another hit from NYPD's "Mace in the Face" cop, DI Anthony Bologna http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: donovan acree http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1232805 donovan acree Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:06:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1232805 Now that Bologna has been identified, it would be great if we could locate the people who were maced and urge them to press criminal charges on this bully. Of course, it would also be nice to see a police officer arrest the jerk but we all know that isn't going to happen. And isn't that the saddest part? Americans are afraid of our police. We all know that when the police abuse or murder the citizenry, the worst thing that will happen to them is that they will be rewarded with a paid vacation. We accept this because we know we can do nothing about it. Lawsuits are filed and nothing happens. We accept it because we LIVE in this broken police system and we all know the score. Americans are afraid of our police. Now that Bologna has been identified, it would be great if we could locate the people who were maced and urge them to press criminal charges on this bully.

Of course, it would also be nice to see a police officer arrest the jerk but we all know that isn’t going to happen. And isn’t that the saddest part? Americans are afraid of our police. We all know that when the police abuse or murder the citizenry, the worst thing that will happen to them is that they will be rewarded with a paid vacation. We accept this because we know we can do nothing about it. Lawsuits are filed and nothing happens. We accept it because we LIVE in this broken police system and we all know the score. Americans are afraid of our police.

]]> By: cjeam http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1232166 cjeam Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:44:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1232166 I've been to protests in the UK, and I know many police officers here and I'm familiar with their procedures etc etc It seems to me that your officers in America are very unprofessional. These officers are amongst the protestors but don't seen to have any idea what they're trying to do, they're also very ill equipped, if anything turned violent, which given the level of aggression certain officers are demonstrating I wouldn't be surprised at, many officers are going to get injured and hurt. At protests in the UK a lot of the officers on crowd control have helmets and shields. Kettling is a least a tactic which stops protestors moving and causing damage or intimidation to other people/areas, here the officers seem to be the ones trying to use intimidation to make the protestors give up.  The difference is also clear in traffic pursuits, a lot of the footage I've seen from the US looks like complete chaos, with officers deploying spike strips in the middle of the road, police vehicles getting in the way of each other, ramming vehicles regularly. Whereas in the UK only trained drivers are allowed to pursue vehicles, and typically only if they have a plan to safely stop the vehicle, eg with a TPAC, which is why cars rarely pursue suspects on motorbikes, and pursuits will be stopped if it's dangerous.  And then contrast this with how professional SWAT seems in dynamic entries and their operations.  Do I have totally the wrong impression? I’ve been to protests in the UK, and I know many police officers here and I’m familiar with their procedures etc etc

It seems to me that your officers in America are very unprofessional. These officers are amongst the protestors but don’t seen to have any idea what they’re trying to do, they’re also very ill equipped, if anything turned violent, which given the level of aggression certain officers are demonstrating I wouldn’t be surprised at, many officers are going to get injured and hurt. At protests in the UK a lot of the officers on crowd control have helmets and shields. Kettling is a least a tactic which stops protestors moving and causing damage or intimidation to other people/areas, here the officers seem to be the ones trying to use intimidation to make the protestors give up. 
The difference is also clear in traffic pursuits, a lot of the footage I’ve seen from the US looks like complete chaos, with officers deploying spike strips in the middle of the road, police vehicles getting in the way of each other, ramming vehicles regularly. Whereas in the UK only trained drivers are allowed to pursue vehicles, and typically only if they have a plan to safely stop the vehicle, eg with a TPAC, which is why cars rarely pursue suspects on motorbikes, and pursuits will be stopped if it’s dangerous. 
And then contrast this with how professional SWAT seems in dynamic entries and their operations. 
Do I have totally the wrong impression?

]]> By: Kimmo http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231994 Kimmo Sun, 02 Oct 2011 03:35:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231994 Police Police Police police Police Police. Also, Police Police Police police Police Police.

Also,

]]> By: LightningRose http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231768 LightningRose Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231768 Are you really so slow someone has to spell it out for you? The cops will never outnumber the citizenry, so I have to ask:  What would Robespierre do? Are you really so slow someone has to spell it out for you? The cops will never outnumber the citizenry, so I have to ask:

 What would Robespierre do?

]]> By: Josh Jasper http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231669 Josh Jasper Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:58:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231669 The streets there are crawling with armed cops, so you'd get about 50 or so paranoid types with a license to open fire in a heavily crowded area with guns out, shooting at whoever looks threatening. So I  have to ask, where's your brain? The streets there are crawling with armed cops, so you’d get about 50 or so paranoid types with a license to open fire in a heavily crowded area with guns out, shooting at whoever looks threatening.

So I  have to ask, where’s your brain?

]]> By: LightningRose http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231622 LightningRose Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231622 If the NYPD refuses to leash this pig, how long will it be before the citizens of New York take matters into their own hands? "Second Amendment Remedies" aren't just for Teabaggers, and it would be a sad day for America if that should ever come to pass. If the NYPD refuses to leash this pig, how long will it be before the citizens of New York take matters into their own hands?

“Second Amendment Remedies” aren’t just for Teabaggers, and it would be a sad day for America if that should ever come to pass.

]]> By: MrJM http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231592 MrJM Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231592 Typo: "shows the same office[r] in another mace attack" (<i>Please feel free to delete this comment.</i>) Typo: “shows the same office[r] in another mace attack”

(Please feel free to delete this comment.)

]]> By: p9ooo http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231589 p9ooo Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:02:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231589 "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Piling-on all this geeky blood-lust is pretty distasteful, as well. “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” Piling-on all this geeky blood-lust is pretty distasteful, as well.

]]> By: t3kna2007 http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231575 t3kna2007 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231575  > At the very least I want a video of him being maced. This.  The person or persons who posted that video (hopefully very anonymously) would be Heroes of the Whole Internet.  > At the very least I want a video of him being maced.

This.  The person or persons who posted that video (hopefully very anonymously) would be Heroes of the Whole Internet.

]]> By: silkox http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231573 silkox Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:26:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231573 Actually, the explanation for his behavior is "target rich environment." Actually, the explanation for his behavior is “target rich environment.”

]]> By: teapot http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231571 teapot Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231571 I think what Cowicide is suggesting is that Anthony Bologna would be more useful as a corpse than a living human being. I tend to agree. At the very least I want a video of him being maced. I suggest galvanised iron. I think what Cowicide is suggesting is that Anthony Bologna would be more useful as a corpse than a living human being. I tend to agree.

At the very least I want a video of him being maced. I suggest galvanised iron.

]]> By: msbpodcast http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231556 msbpodcast Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231556 Are you kidding? We're tired of this boorish behavior and want to teach him some civility. The Mexican NarcoLords are armed and would make him soil himself before they decapitated him with the rusty lid from a can of beans in a Guadalajara garbage dump. I might think bullies like him don't belong on the force, but I definitely wouldn't do that to anybody. Are you kidding? We’re tired of this boorish behavior and want to teach him some civility.

The Mexican NarcoLords are armed and would make him soil himself before they decapitated him with the rusty lid from a can of beans in a Guadalajara garbage dump.

I might think bullies like him don’t belong on the force, but I definitely wouldn’t do that to anybody.

]]> By: msbpodcast http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231553 msbpodcast Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231553 He's not on a rampage, he looks like he's having fun, at other people's expense. In south America, he'd be on a death squad torturing and then killing teenagers and children. He represents the casual abuse of power that makes for revolutions and war trials. Anthony Bologna has earned the personal appellation of <b><i>PIG</i></b>. He’s not on a rampage, he looks like he’s having fun, at other people’s expense.

In south America, he’d be on a death squad torturing and then killing teenagers and children.

He represents the casual abuse of power that makes for revolutions and war trials.

Anthony Bologna has earned the personal appellation of PIG.

]]> By: Electro_Jones http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231541 Electro_Jones Sat, 01 Oct 2011 12:41:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231541 Tony Baloney rolled out of bed and he ran to the police station. Mama found out and began to shout and started the investigation. It was against the law.  It was against the law!  What the mama saw, it was against the law! Tony Baloney rolled out of bed and he ran to the police station.
Mama found out and began to shout and started the investigation.
It was against the law.  It was against the law!  What the mama saw, it was against the law!

]]> By: Eric Rucker http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231521 Eric Rucker Sat, 01 Oct 2011 11:07:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231521 In a democracy, the meta-cops would be the general public. So, the meta-meta-cops are the cops, meta-meta-meta-cops are the meta-cops. In a democracy, the meta-cops would be the general public.

So, the meta-meta-cops are the cops, meta-meta-meta-cops are the meta-cops.

]]> By: Oliver Schmieding http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231500 Oliver Schmieding Sat, 01 Oct 2011 09:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231500 he reminds me of "police academy"'s    lt. harris right down to the self-righteous body language .... as always, truth is stranger than fiction . he reminds me of “police academy”‘s    lt. harris right down to the self-righteous body language …. as always, truth is stranger than fiction .

]]> By: shadowfirebird http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231486 shadowfirebird Sat, 01 Oct 2011 07:59:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231486 Sociopath.  Sociopath. 

]]> By: Guest http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231482 Guest Sat, 01 Oct 2011 07:30:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231482  Inciting panic would be a nice charge, as well as assault.  Inciting panic would be a nice charge, as well as assault.

]]> By: William http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231476 William Sat, 01 Oct 2011 07:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231476 I want a showdown between Officer Bubbles and Officer Mace the Face! Though they'd probably end up as buddies. I want a showdown between Officer Bubbles and Officer Mace the Face! Though they’d probably end up as buddies.

]]> By: Incipient Madness http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231423 Incipient Madness Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231423 <blockquote>Somebody should call the cops on this guy</blockquote>  Yeah, what we need is some kind of cops you can call when you've got a problem with the cops. We'll call them the "meta-cops". Then we'd know who watches the watchmen. Or would we? Hmmm, meta-meta-cops, meta-meta-meta-cops......

Somebody should call the cops on this guy

 
Yeah, what we need is some kind of cops you can call when you’ve got a problem with the cops. We’ll call them the “meta-cops”. Then we’d know who watches the watchmen.

Or would we? Hmmm, meta-meta-cops, meta-meta-meta-cops……

]]> By: Guest http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231338 Guest Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:59:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231338 He uses his mace like bug spray. I can see him randomly walking around spraying. It is as if he isn't even thinking any consequences of his actions. He uses his mace like bug spray. I can see him randomly walking around spraying. It is as if he isn’t even thinking any consequences of his actions.

]]> By: serfer0 http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231331 serfer0 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:46:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231331 What gets me is how nonchalant he is. Just spray and walk away. Spray and walk away. Even the other officers seem to be like, "wtf, brosef!" What gets me is how nonchalant he is. Just spray and walk away. Spray and walk away. Even the other officers seem to be like, “wtf, brosef!”

]]> By: Billy Hale http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231294 Billy Hale Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:12:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231294 It's his scampering away afterward that makes his scurrilous misdeeds so...what's the word...Chickenshit? Yep: Chickenshit. Or is there a better word for said behavior that escapes me? It’s his scampering away afterward that makes his scurrilous misdeeds so…what’s the word…Chickenshit?

Yep: Chickenshit. Or is there a better word for said behavior that escapes me?

]]> By: Jack Myers http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231293 Jack Myers Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:11:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231293 He puts the pig in fascist pig.  I wonder if he's a Tea Party supporter.  I also wonder if he's aware of just how hated he now is, world wide? He puts the pig in fascist pig.  I wonder if he’s a Tea Party supporter.  I also wonder if he’s aware of just how hated he now is, world wide?

]]> By: snagglepuss http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231290 snagglepuss Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231290 If I was Tony, it'd be fuck "RETIREMENT" - I'd be selling everything I own, saying goodbye to everybody I've ever known and moving to a cave in Mogadishu, because if Anonymous are HALF as good as they say they are, they'll be hounding that fuckwad to his grave, and beyond. Cell phones, internet, pension, credit cards - Forget all THAT. He'll be lucky if some happy demon at A doesn't alert Somali warlords that there's a crazy old white bastard in the woods who likes to molest little black boys. Good fucking riddance. If I was Tony, it’d be fuck “RETIREMENT” – I’d be selling everything I own, saying goodbye to everybody I’ve ever known and moving to a cave in Mogadishu, because if Anonymous are HALF as good as they say they are, they’ll be hounding that fuckwad to his grave, and beyond.

Cell phones, internet, pension, credit cards – Forget all THAT. He’ll be lucky if some happy demon at A doesn’t alert Somali warlords that there’s a crazy old white bastard in the woods who likes to molest little black boys. Good fucking riddance.

]]> By: Palomino http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231279 Palomino Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:02:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231279 Is this within Anonymous' 36 hour warning? If it is, I'm waiting.  Is this within Anonymous’ 36 hour warning? If it is, I’m waiting. 

]]> By: Mantissa128 http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231253 Mantissa128 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:49:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231253 It amazes me how the flesh-search-engine stitches together images and eyewitness testimony into making sense of what happened. The cops in Vancouver are still poring over public-submitted photos and video to identify rioters, and they're struggling. They don't have the power of the masses - captured events are evaluated by the person who witnessed them. We're like millions of brain cells, talking to each other. It doesn't work for the Man. I am loving this. You know, I wasn't sure this kind of thing would have the same traction in a western democracy as it has in the middle east. But I'm starting to get the same vibe. If authorities do something dumb that sets people off, this could be interesting. I have a feeling the 21st century is going to be an increasingly difficult place for authorities to be assholes in. Perhaps the face being stamped on forever by a boot has a hat with a badge on it. In the name of democracy, let us all unite! It amazes me how the flesh-search-engine stitches together images and eyewitness testimony into making sense of what happened. The cops in Vancouver are still poring over public-submitted photos and video to identify rioters, and they’re struggling. They don’t have the power of the masses – captured events are evaluated by the person who witnessed them. We’re like millions of brain cells, talking to each other. It doesn’t work for the Man. I am loving this.

You know, I wasn’t sure this kind of thing would have the same traction in a western democracy as it has in the middle east. But I’m starting to get the same vibe. If authorities do something dumb that sets people off, this could be interesting.

I have a feeling the 21st century is going to be an increasingly difficult place for authorities to be assholes in. Perhaps the face being stamped on forever by a boot has a hat with a badge on it. In the name of democracy, let us all unite!

]]> By: Cowicide http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231241 Cowicide Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231241 Just got inspired to make this... Send Tony Baloney to South America! http://www.flickr.com/photos/49403380@N00/6199458004 Just got inspired to make this… Send Tony Baloney to South America!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49403380@N00/6199458004

]]> By: qoana http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231227 qoana Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:20:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231227 Cory, you're scheduled for NYC thirteen days from now. Join OCCUPY and more of us will be inclined to add to the ranks. You may not be a U.S. citizen, but nationality does not matter with this issue. Cory, you’re scheduled for NYC thirteen days from now. Join OCCUPY and more of us will be inclined to add to the ranks. You may not be a U.S. citizen, but nationality does not matter with this issue.

]]> By: GoGo Vicmorrow http://boingboing.net/2011/09/30/another-hit-from-nypds-mace-in-the-face-cop-di-anthony-bologna.html#comment-1231222 GoGo Vicmorrow Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:10:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=121176#comment-1231222 Thank GOD no one blew bubbles at this mother fucker or they would have to get the street sweepers out to clean up the hippie blood. Thank GOD no one blew bubbles at this mother fucker or they would have to get the street sweepers out to clean up the hippie blood.

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