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BALTIMORE (AP) - A police officer shown on a
YouTube video berating and roughly handling a
skateboarder at the Inner Harbor was
suspended on Monday.
The incident involving Officer Salvatore
Rivieri, a 17-year-old veteran, is the
subject of an internal affairs investigation,
said Sterling Clifford, a spokesman for the
Baltimore Police Department and the mayor's
office.
"The entire incident raised red flags for all
of the members of the command staff who
watched the video," Clifford told The
(Baltimore) Sun.
The video, apparently shot last summer, shows
Rivieri putting the youth, 14-year-old Eric
Bush, into a headlock and pushing him to the
ground.
"He was just, like, getting an attitude with
me, and said he was going to slap me upside
down my face, and I was just going on with it
and then he tackled me," Bush told WJZ-TV.
At one point on the video, Rivieri said,
"Obviously, your parents don't put a foot in
your butt quite enough, because you don't
understand the meaning of respect. First of
all, you better learn how to speak. I'm not
'man.' I'm not 'dude,' I am Officer Rivieri."
Rivieri told The Sun on Sunday that he did
not know that the incident had been recorded
or posted on the Internet. He acknowledged
having encounters with skateboarders at the
Inner Harbor, where skateboarding is banned,
last summer, and told a reporter that he
would watch the video on YouTube.
After he was suspended on Monday, Rivieri
said, "I have no comment. Thank you."
Clifford said Monday afternoon that Mayor
Sheila Dixon had not seen the video, but that
its contents had been described to her and
that she was "very displeased."
"We have invested a lot of time and energy in
having better relations between the community
and the police," Clifford said. "The bad
behavior of one police officer can jeopardize
a lot of hard work."
Paul Blair, head of the police union, had not
seen the video but warned that videos show
only part of a story. He said that it is
impossible to know what happened before or
after the camera was turned on.
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| Rev. Lennox Yearwood attacked, arrested, and hospitalized |
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Also please watch part 2
and Google Video: Hip Hop caucus returns from
the Middle East
Capitol Hill Police 'Football Tackled' Hip
Hop Activist Rev. Lennox Yearwood at Petreus
Hearing
WASHINGTON - September 10 - Rev. Lennox
Yearwood, Jr., president of the Hip Hop
Caucus, was attacked by six capitol police
today, when he was stopped from entering the
Cannon Caucus Room on Capitol Hill, where
General Petreaus gave testimony today to a
joint hearing for the House Arms Services
Committee and Foreign Relations Committee on
the war in Iraq.
After waiting in line throughout the morning
for the hearing that was scheduled to start
at 12:30pm, Rev. Yearwood was stopped from
entering the room, while others behind him
were allowed to enter. He told the officers
blocking his ability to enter the room, that
he was waiting in line with everyone else and
had the right to enter as well. When they
threatened him with arrest he responded with
"I will not be arrested today." According to
witnesses, six capitol police, without
warning, "football tackled" him. He was
carried off in a wheel chair by DC Fire and
Emergency to George Washington Hospital.
Rev. Yearwood said as he was being released
from the hospital to be taken to central
booking, "The officers decided I was not
going to get in Gen. Petreaus' hearing when
they saw my button, which says 'I LOVE THE
PEOPLE OF IRAQ.'"
Capitol Police are not saying what the
charges are, but an inside source has said
that the charge is assaulting a police
officer. Rev. Yearwood is scheduled to be
transferred to Central Processing to be
arraigned tomorrow morning.
The incident was recorded by an observer and
is available on YouTube WhyNotNews
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiradcejA6o.
For further information contact: Liz Havstad
at liz@hiphopcaucus.org or 510-206-6749.
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