Officer Rivieri Suspended After Appearing In YouTube Video

Officer Rivieri Suspended After Appearing In YouTube Video

by RogueFox » 13 Feb 2008, Wed 12:44 pm

Officer Suspended After Appearing In YouTube Video

BALTIMORE - A 17-year veteran of the Baltimore police force has been suspended with pay pending an internal investigation of his actions involving a 14-year-old skateboarder at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. 

Richard Sher reports video of the confrontation in question appears on YouTube.com.

It happened mid-summer when City Police Officer Salvatore Rivieri asked 14-year-old Eric Bush and his friends to stop skateboarding at the Inner Harbor. Skateboarding is illegal there.

Bush's friend was videotaping the exchange, which at one point shows the officer grabbing Bush's skateboard and throwing him to the ground.

"He was just like up in my face, yelling at me...then he tackled me," Eric said. "It was like scary because I have diabetes and my blood sugar went crazy 'cause he scared me."

"I started watching the video and couldn't continue. I flipped out," said Peggy Miller, Eric's mother.

"I saw the tape. The officer handled the situation so poorly. It is very clear this is unacceptable," said Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon.

Officer Rivieri, a 17-year veteran of the BCPD, has been suspended with pay while the department conducts an internal investigation.

"The police commissioner, the mayor and the top command staff saw the video and are disappointed," said Sterling Clifford, spokesperson for the Baltimore City Police Department.

Many viewers have emailed Eyewitness News supporting the officer suggesting that what occurred before the confrontation was not shown on the tape.

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officer Salvatore Rivieri hates kids and boxes

by WaTcHeR » 23 Feb 2008, Sat 1:29 pm

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^^^ THIS IS A DIFFERENT VIDEO OF A DIFFERENT INCIDENT ^^^ 


New charges against Baltimore City officer Salvatore Rivieri; 2nd Incident Caught on Tape 

2/15/08 New video of Baltimore police officer Salvatore Rivieri in action at the Inner Harbor. This time he confronts Billy Friebele, an artist from Washington D.C., who was videotaping at the Harbor last summer. 

Friebele said he was taping the reactions of passersby to a box he was moving with a remote controlled car. Officer Rivieri is seen on tape kicking the box off of the car and then kicking the car. The officer then orders Friebele to leave the area. 

Rivieri is the same officer caught on a video wrestling a 14 year old skate boarder to the ground. A spokesperson for the Baltimore Police Department declined to comment on this latest videotape. Officer Rivieri is suspended without pay pending the outcome of an internal investigation of the incident with the skate boarder.

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by WaTcHeR » 23 Feb 2008, Sat 1:39 pm

BALTIMORE - The 14-year-old whose run-in with an irate Baltimore police officer was posted on YouTube says he knew he was "100 percent wrong" for skateboarding in a prohibited area. 

However, Eric Bush said the officer overreacted and wouldn't have a job if it were up to him. Officer Salvatore Rivieri has been suspended pending an investigation. 

Eric said he doesn't feel sorry for Officer Rivieri at all. 

The video shows Officer Rivieri putting Eric in a headlock, pushing him to the ground and threatening to hit the teen, who repeatedly refers to the officer as "dude" or "man." 

Eric said he and his friends often have run-ins with police for skateboarding. Tony Santo, 15, who taped the incident last summer, said he sometimes uses a camcorder to tape the interactions with police because they find humor in getting yelled at by officers.