Video: Baltimore's Finest Takes Down A Skateboarder

[Lennon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgWrV8TcUc

Baltimore Officer Suspended After Video Surfaces

http://www.officer.com/web/online/Internal-Affairs-News/Baltimore-Officer-Suspended-After-Video-Surfaces/5$40154
A Baltimore police officer was suspended yesterday after a YouTube video surfaced on the Internet showing him berating and manhandling a teenage skateboarder at the Inner Harbor.

On the video, the officer, Salvatore Rivieri, puts the boy in a headlock, pushes him to the ground, questions his upbringing, threatens to "smack" him and repeatedly accuses the youngster of showing disrespect because the youth refers to the officer as "man" and "dude."

At one point, Rivieri, a 17-year veteran of the force, says:

"Obviously, your parents don't put a foot in your butt quite enough, because you don't understand the meaning of respect. First of all, you better learn how to speak. I'm not `man.' I'm not `dude,' I am Officer Rivieri. The sooner you learn that, the longer you are going to live in this world. Because you go around doing this kind of stuff and somebody is going to kill you."

[ret5hd]

1. kick just because i like aggravating the cop-lovers.

[thunder rising]

2. intimidation, makes a death threat...only hope that Mom says "he is represented by legal council"

you may not interrogate him any further without his lawyer present.
are you arresting my son and for what charge?

[Pastiche423]

3. "Rivieri is confined to administrative work on his suspension with pay"

WITH PAY?

There are lots of articles on this at Google news.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

4. My post a little while was actually inspired by this video.

[KillCapitalism]

5. I wonder why skateboarding is so demonized?

It was never my hobby, but when I see younger ppl. skateboarding, they just look like they're out having a good time & not bothering anyone.

Would the police rather they be out gangbanging or vandalizing things instead?

[HughBeaumont]

6. "Got that camera on?"

Yep. Now the whole world knows you're a fucking badge-abusing piece of fat human garbage, motherfucker.

What a piece of goddamned SHIT. That was dogshit, bitch-ass CRAP. Protect and serve my ass. FUCK toy pigs like this.

[HughBeaumont]

7. More patently necessary skinhead-pig bullshit and proof as to why Police are hated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFUpa0OwlyU&feature=related

Threatening to mace a kid who isn't resisting arrest. For riding a fucking skateboard. What a bunch of redneck pig SHIT.

Police: The Legal Gang.

[Booster]

8. I give all those boys credit for not laughing at that dude. What

the Hell is he wearing anyway?