Can’t believe it has already been three years since Baltimore Police officer Salvatore Rivieri was caught on video jumping out of his golf cart and roughing up a 14-year-old skateboarder (click here for all the stories). Now, according to the Baltimore Sun, that officer has been “cleared using excessive force and discourtesy.”
A three-member police panel called a trial board held a hearing last week and found Officer Salvatore Rivieri guilty of failing to issue the youth a citizen contact receipt and file a report but not guilty on charges of using excessive and unnecessary force and uttering a discourtesy.
It is difficult to imagine a police officer be more discourteous to a kid, short of beating them, but apparently in Baltimore that’s perfectly normal police behavior.
[Link: Baltimore Sun]
