{"id":16991,"date":"2010-07-20T14:27:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T21:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16991"},"modified":"2010-07-20T14:27:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T21:27:26","slug":"police-board-clears-officer-rivieri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16991","title":{"rendered":"Police Board Clears Officer Rivieri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t believe it has already been three years since Baltimore Police officer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=Salvatore+Rivieri\" target=\"_blank\">Salvatore Rivieri<\/a><\/strong> was <strong>caught on video<\/strong> jumping out of his golf cart and roughing up a 14-year-old skateboarder (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=Salvatore+Rivieri\" target=\"_blank\">click here for all the stories<\/a><\/strong>). Now, according to the <strong><em>Baltimore Sun<\/em><\/strong>, that officer has been &#8220;cleared using excessive force and discourtesy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is difficult to imagine a police officer be more discourteous to a kid, short of beating them, but apparently in Baltimore that&#8217;s perfectly normal police behavior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/bs-md-officer-rivieri-cleared-20100720,0,5213089.story\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Sun<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;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 &#8220;cleared using excessive force and discourtesy.&#8221; A three-member police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16992,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991\/revisions\/16992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}