Jefferson Siegel for New York Daily News Chelsea Elliott (right) and Kaylee Dedrick (2nd from left on knees) scream in pain after they and two others were sprayed with pepper spray by NYPD Dep. Inspector Anthony Bologna on 12th St. near Union Square. 
 
 A high-ranking cop who pepper-sprayed penned-in Occupy Wall Street protesters has been zapped with a lawsuit by two women who were in the line of fire. 
 
 Chelsea Elliott and Jeanne Mansfield are suing Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna in Manhattan Federal Court for blasting them in the face with pepper-spray during a protest last Sept. 24 near Union Square. 
 
 The incident was caught on video, and 1.5 million people watched it on YouTube, prompting outrage and drawing attention to the Occupy Wall Street movement. 
 
 Bologna was docked 10 days of vacation for violating NYPD regulations. 
 
 In an interview Monday, Mansfield, 24, a Boston writer, said she was suing because she wanted to put the NYPD on notice that what Bologna did was wrong. 
 
 "I was attending a peaceful demonstration when I was met with what I feel was an undue amount of force," she said. 
 
 Mansfield said she is sympathetic to police in general but said she didn't deserve to be pepper-sprayed. 
 
 "I think he allowed his emotions to get the best of him," she said of Bologna. 
 
 The lawsuit, filed quietly last Wednesday, accuses Bologna of violating both women's civil rights. 
 
 "Anthony Bologna maced the plaintiffs as they were exercising their constitutionally protected rights, including freedom of speech and freedom of assembly," the lawsuit says. 
 
 Mansfield and Elliot, of Brooklyn, are seeking unspecified damages for physical pain and mental suffering from Bologna and the city. 
 
 NYPD spokesman Paul Browne declined comment. ||||| NEW YORK Two women caught on camera being doused with pepper spray by a New York police officer during an Occupy Wall Street march in September have sued the city, saying it failed to train police officers properly. 
 
 In a viral online video, Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna was shown pepper-spraying several protesters involved in a march in September, about a week after the Occupy Wall Street movement set up camp in a park in the city's financial district. 
 
 The video helped draw attention to the Occupy protests, which spread throughout the country last fall with calls for greater economic equality before the movement lost some ground as many U.S. cities evicted them from tent camp footholds. 
 
 Chelsea Elliott of Brooklyn and Jeanne Mansfield of Massachusetts filed the lawsuit last week in Manhattan federal court against Bologna, the city, the police department and other unidentified officers. 
 
 Bologna was docked 10 vacation days for "using pepper spray outside of department guidelines," police said in October. 
 
 The Manhattan district attorney's office opened an investigation into his conduct but has not released any results. A spokeswoman for the office declined to comment on Monday. 
 
 Aymen Aboushi, the lawyer for the two women, said he waited several months for the investigation to conclude before filing the suit. 
 
 "We've given them more than enough time to follow up on this," he said. 
 
 A spokeswoman for the city's law department said in an e-mail on Monday that the city had not received a copy of the lawsuit but would review it upon its arrival. 
 
 (Reporting By Joseph Ax; Editing by Cynthia Johnston)
– Two of the women pepper-sprayed in the face by high-ranking NYPD officer Anthony Bologna last fall are taking him to court. The women say Bologna violated their civil rights, and they're seeking unspecified damages, Reuters reports. A YouTube video of the penned-in women being pepper-sprayed received more than 1.5 million hits and helped draw attention to the Occupy Wall Street movement. One of the women says she is suing to let the NYPD know that Bologna was in the wrong. "I was attending a peaceful demonstration when I was met with what I feel was an undue amount of force," she tells the New York Daily News, adding that while she is usually supportive of the police, Bologna "allowed his emotions to get the best of him." The officer was docked 10 vacation days for violating pepper-spray guidelines.