More than just pepper spray was in the air at Occupy Wall Street last fall.
A woman who was pepper-sprayed in the face in a notorious incident involving NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna is now nine months pregnant with the child of a fellow protester who rushed to her aid, her lawyer revealed yesterday.
Kaylee Dedrick, a teacher’s assistant from Albany, became “one of the victims of the spray felt around the world” last Sept. 24, when she took part in an OWS protest near Union Square, papers filed in Manhattan federal court say.
Her suit, which seeks unspecified damages, says Dedrick, 24, started yelling, “Stop it!” when she saw police treating another protester roughly.
“Dedrick and several other young women who [were] behaving peacefully” then became the target of the NYPD veteran.
“Bologna unhooked his can of pepper spray, lunged toward the group, and without warning or justification, sprayed the irritant directly into the crowd of women,” the suit says.
Dedrick screamed in agony, but cops did nothing to help, the suit says.
Fellow protester Robert Grodt rushed to Dedrick’s aid — leading to a bit of a “happy ending,” said her lawyer, Ron Kuby.
They are engaged and their baby is due in two weeks.
The city Law Department said it hasn’t seen the suit, but will review it.