Police Officer, Skateboarder and Excessive Force: Caught on Tape
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It is a disturbing video on YouTube. It is an interaction between an experienced police officer (Salvatore Rivieri) and a fourteen year old skateboarder, Eric Bush:
“Don’t call him “dude.” A Baltimore City police officer is suspended with pay after a video surfaced Saturday on the Web site YouTube.com, depicting him yelling at, pushing and bullying a skateboarder after the teen allegedly disrespected him.
“The entire video raises some issues of appropriate interaction with a citizen,” said Sterling Clifford, city police spokesman.”
link: Video: Cop bullies teen after a ‘dude’ comment
The video is disturbing (viewer warning):
It seems that Officer Rivieri forgot that Eric Bush is among those that he supposed is to ’serve and protect’.
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2 Comments
Agarath
February 13th, 2008
at 4:54pm
Not seeing what happened to start this incident makes it difficult to really gauge what set this officer off this way.
I can’t say I am surprised that more of this type of behaviour of Police officers when dealing with youth as there is such a lack of understanding for youth on HOW to deal with an officer under any circumstances, (what their rights and responsibilities are), and a social disconnect on the behalf of most officers in dealing with youth.
I do find it quite telling that the officer begins to utter what might have been a threat to the other youth filming the incident. I’m glad this surfaced, and I’m glad that this incident didn’t get any worse.
Wayne
February 14th, 2008
at 8:30pm
I guess officer Salvatore Rivieri is a big man when it comes to being a bully
, he looks like the one who isn’t going to live long around here,