{"id":407,"date":"2008-02-12T08:32:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T16:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=407"},"modified":"2008-02-12T08:38:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T16:38:24","slug":"officer-suspended-for-harassing-skateboarder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Officer Suspended For Harassing Skateboarder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;d like to hear more stories like this one from the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/baltimore_city\/bal-officer0211,0,6130830.story\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Sun<\/a><\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Baltimore police officer was suspended Monday after a YouTube video surfaced on the Internet showing him berating and manhandling a teenage skateboarder at the Inner Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>On the video, the officer, <strong>Salvatore Rivieri<\/strong>, puts the boy in a headlock, pushes him to the ground, questions his upbringing, threatens to &#8220;smack&#8221; him and repeatedly accuses the youngster of showing disrespect because the youth refers to the officer as &#8220;man&#8221; and &#8220;dude.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here it is in all it&#8217;s glory. A nice reminder to keep those cameras rolling no matter what. Guess this is what happens when a grown man is forced to patrol the city in an electric golf cart. Congrats, Officer Rivieri, you deserve all the trouble you&#8217;re getting, dude.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9GgWrV8TcUc&#38;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9GgWrV8TcUc&#38;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/baltimore_city\/bal-officer0211,0,6130830.story\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Sun<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;d like to hear more stories like this one from the Baltimore Sun: A Baltimore police officer was suspended Monday after a YouTube video surfaced on the Internet showing him berating and manhandling a teenage skateboarder at the Inner Harbor. On the video, the officer, Salvatore Rivieri, puts the boy in a headlock, pushes him [&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\/407"}],"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=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}