BALTIMORE (AP) – A police officer shown on a youtube video berating and roughly handling a skateboarder at the Inner Harbor was suspended on Monday. The incident involving Officer Salvatore Rivieri, a 17-year-old veteran, is the subject of an internal affairs investigation, said Sterling Clifford, a spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department and the mayor’s office. “The entire incident raised red flags for all of the members of the command staff who watched the video,” Clifford told The (Baltimore) Sun. The video, apparently shot last summer, shows Rivieri putting the youth, 14-year-old Eric Bush, into a headlock and pushing him to the ground. “He was just, like, getting an attitude with me, and said he was going to slap me upside down my face, and I was just going on with it and then he tackled me,” Bush told WJZ-TV. At one point on the video, Rivieri said, “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.” Rivieri told The Sun on Sunday that he did not know that the incident had been recorded or posted on the Internet. He acknowledged having encounters with skateboarders at the Inner Harbor, where skateboarding is banned, last summer, and told a reporter that he would watch the video on youtube. After he was suspended on Monday, Rivieri said, “I have no comment. Thank you.” Clifford said Monday …
no, he was a real cop. He had low self esteem from having to wear that god-awful uniform and drive that wind up toy.
Had he been wearing blacks or blues, and driving a crown vic, this might not have happened.
This only happens in Usa!
that cop is going to end up dead floating in the river if he ever fucks with me
These kids should be thrown in the harbour, they offer nothing for society.
As A parent I would file CHARGES AGAINST THIS OFFICER for BATTERY. Way over the call of an officer to be a asshole to this point!
Kids this is wrong you should have asked the officer to see his watch commander and show him video!
Did this officer get fired??
You cannot DEMAND respect its got to be earned!!!!!The DUDE went way over the line!He will die of a Heart Attack before anyone respects his LAWLESS ASS!!
yup, that was assault on a minor and theft and abuse of power and excessive force and a breach of the first amendment and and and… Fucking dumb corporate pig enforcer. What happened to PEACE officer?
@rad1ist
no he didn’t get in trouble for that, but shortly after the kids incident he damaged a remote control car that was being used for a hidden camera show and that led to him getting suspended with pay.
ruuiiiir (pig sound)
shut up gay boy go suck ur mums cock
@enjoyskateboardfan
I am not homosexual. My mother does not own a rooster.
You are a born loser, you have no skills, you will serve time in and out of jail. You offer nothing to society.
If you tell me to shut up, I will speak louder and more often.
This prick should not be a police officer. Fucking homosexual he is. Picked on as a kid in school I’m sure. You disrespected me this bag and my department. No you did that all own your own Officer Rivieri.
He is a prick, but I don’t understand why you have to use “homosexual” to describe him. That’s extremely offensive and it implies that all homosexuals are douche bags, which is NOT true.
Well he is an ass, but there are certain areas where skating is not allowed and that should be respected. However, that cop went OVER THE TOP. They should have just been asked to leave.
Everyone needs to stop using “fag.” One, it’s already a derogatory term for homosexuals. Two, using it to then describe an asshole is even more offensive.
Its extremely offensive to me to have some one put a limit on my freedom of speech.
That cop is an asshole
No limit to freedom of speech is what started troubles such as the holocaust. Let’s make fun of who YOU are just because the amendments tell me I can! That’s real clever.
Go ahead I got thick enough skin to take it. And Germany during the Holocaust was a fascist state. Not a country that had freedom of speech.
Bush get arrested? i think the cops should be arrested instead for chid abuse for butting him in a head lock. You how stupid american law is that even the person who being aggressed can be arrested and not the aggressor. Stupid cops.
AND HES DRESSED LIKE A FUCKING FAG.
someones gonna kill him for skateboarding???? yeaaaa shurreeee their fatass officer
I love how he exclaims he is officer rivieri lol..
I wanna know what happened after the cop asked if the camera was on, does anyone know of an extended video?