Daily News | City settles three civil rights suits against former police Inspector Joseph Bologna for $267,500
In the spring of 2020, as civil unrest erupted across the country following the murder of George Floyd, video clips that circulated on social media showed how a volatile situation could explode into chaos when Philadelphia Police Inspector Joseph Bologna got involved.
He charged a security guard for a Fox29 reporter and struck him with the baton, ignoring the reporter who was shouting “we’re press!” The next day, he bludgeoned a Temple University student on or near the back of his head, sparking national outrage and costing Bologna his job. “It was a completely inappropriate, violent reaction,” Cohan’s attorney, Alan Yatvin, said of Bologna’s response. “It makes you wonder what they were thinking out there. It was a police brutality protest, and you respond to it with the sort of thing that’s being protested?”
Yatvin said one of the factors that led Cohan to settle her case is Bologna’s ongoing criminal case, which could make it impossible for him to be deposed due to his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Cohan filed her lawsuit in October 2021.
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