A young teacher’s aide who was pepper-sprayed during an Occupy Wall Street protest met with prosecutors yesterday to demand misdemeanor-assault charges against the deputy inspector caught on video doing the spraying.
Prosecutors interviewed the woman — Kaylee Dedrick, 24, of Manhattan. But they gave no indication of when, or if, charges would be filed, prompting her lawyer to cry coverup.
“The video shows one very angry man attacking three women who are not doing anything wrong,” said the lawyer, Ron Kuby, who identified the sprayer as Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna.
“I would like for him to get reprimanded, the way he should be reprimanded,” Dedrick said after the hour-long meeting.
She said the spraying caused her “a tremendous amount of pain” and blinded her for about 45 minutes. She said she wants the cop “to feel the repercussions of what he did that day.”
The video shows Dedrick in a group of shouting women standing behind orange police netting just before she’s sprayed and falls to her knees, screaming.
NYPD officials have told reporters that the pepper-spraying was a justified use of force that “obviated the use of batons.”
Prosecutors have declined to comment.