I’m paying rapt attention. Why don’t you pay attention, including to what you post. George Kaplan’s post, to which you say you were responding, did not imply because there might have been a need to get the officer’s badge number that either (a) Eric was innocent, or (b) the officer would have backed down. He simply posited a hypothetical, in apposition to the the statements the officer was should have been making the kid he accosted, i.e., You were the first person to type innocent in any sentence with Eric’s name.
There’s nothing reasonable about that. You know exactly what I meant.
Actually, maybe you don’t, but I don’t make it a habit to try to debate with people who haven’t yet passed the sixth grade.
Gee, I wonder why? Would you have let the pig talk to your mom after he assaulted you?
In addition to Innocent Eric I also typed Evil Cop and Officer Doughnut. Whose side am I on anyway?
What exactly do you feel would have been the effect of the kid demanding Evil Cop’s badge number?
This is how my post should have read:
Wait, I thought the kid was calling mom himself. I heard the cop say “You’re damn right you’re gonna call your mother!” and I believe I saw the kid holding his phone.
People like Officer “Tubby Bitch” Rivieri helped me lose any respect for authority I had when I was younger. Fortunately, most cops I’ve met have been very professional. In fact, of the half-dozen times I’ve been stopped in Atlanta, only one of the officers was a needlessly abusive prick I’d like to get together with in a locked room with no badge and no gun. So, that’s a pretty good percentage. And a local county cop is a friend.
I guess Off. Rivieri’s uniform is designed for comfort and durability. But Jesus, it does look like a clown suit.
No. The kid had property taken from him and he was physically “molested” (for lack of a better word). The cop is supposed to be a professional, and he wasn’t.
If he knew it was being taped he might have felt more like standing up for his rights. The cop had already shown how tough he was and that he was willing to do violence. His parent would have thought , He must have done something. All it takes is getting in front of a cop in a nasty mood.
I was Eric at that age and God help me if I saw a cop in a shirt like that driving the meter maids car, he was gonna be the target of the day.
I was always the one who baited the cop and was willing to take pretty much any kind of beating so I could say “See how they are?”.
Oddly enough I very rarely got charged with anything. As soon as a cop cooled a little (once I was out of their audio/visual range) they realised they had lost control and now had a liability. To pursue things any farther would have some perhaps unsympathetic eyes on the situation.
This stupidity dragged on into my 20’s.
The words fathering and discipline are brought into the conversation because thats the kind of fathering and discipline some of us received.
And yes Americans are scared of police. White people, brown people, old people, handicapped people (not referring to the other recent thread but another Balt police incident). Not because cops are all bad psychopaths but because there is no accountability anywhere, you can’t be sure which one’s crazy and which one is professional. And if there is any issue with your treatment or even death it will be covered up. Not because they’re cops but any public servant.
I would say Eric has some other violence in his life and I would say this will escalate for him until it doesn’t.
Feh. I’ve seen worse.
Oh, and here’s an obligatory Scatterbrain link.
The cop-defenders in this thread are insane. This fascist asshole should lose his badge forever.
Clealry the kid is a punk…what kid isn’t at that age?
The cop is a fat blob who is angry at life. His entire existence is a cope is so empty and worthless that he resorts to abusing a teenager to justify his paycheck.
Perhaps. Way I see it there are two explanations for the cop’s willingness to call the kid’s mum. The first is that he was calling the kid’s bluff. Remember, it was the kid who first brought up the possibility of getting his parents involved right after he was assaulted. If he was calling the kid’s bluff then he’s even stupider than he looks (no mean achievement) because there’s no sane mother on earth who would side with that asshole against their own kid.
The second explanation, and I think this is the more likely one, is that Rivieri genuinely didn’t think he was doing anything wrong. That is to say, he didn’t explode because he was under a lot of stress or was having a very bad day. That could at least be understood if not condoned. No, he did what he did because he is what he is - an inadequate, bullying thug.
Either way, guy’s worth less than cocksmear. Fuck him.
It’s more like “this better not end up on <cut>”
It’s almost a poetic edit. You can fill in the blank, “youTube”, “my resume”, “abc nightly news”.
The kid said that it happened last summer, but he waited this long because they were taking (or considering taking) action against the police.
Nicely joked, sir.
Certainly it is. The problem the officer has is that one party is a 14 year old kid, and the other is an adult with a badge and a gun. On top of that, the kid’s improper actions were skateboarding and saying “dude”, while the adult’s actions included throwing a scrawny teenager to the ground.
I first saw this video about two weeks ago – there happened to be a lot of family over that day, so I called my two SIL’s who are both cops into the room. I was curious as to their interpretation of this.
SIL 1: “Oh, it’s their Odie.”
SIL 2: “Yup, that’s their Odie.”
Me: “Bwuh?”
SIL 1: “Odie…every department has at least one Odie, if not more.”
Me: “Ok…what does Jon Arbuckle’s dog have to do with being a asswipe in uniform?”
SIL 2: “Odie – O.D. – Officer Douchebag”.
No “adult” did. This was pure child on child.
Heh…that song has been stuck in my head ever since I first saw Odie’s rant. “Well I heard the word ‘dude’ and I became unglued…”
Exactly.
You should probably bow out of this thread quietly before you further embarrass yourself.
Well, we’ve seen some hyperbole on both sides in this thread. Most cops in this country do a sometimes dangerous, absolutely necessary job with professionalism and decency; this guy doesn’t meet that standard.
Has anyone mentioned State Trooper Farva in the movie Super Troopers? Officer Rivieri reminds me of him.
I’m still waiting to hear how Officer Evil should have used an adult cool head to resolve the situation without coddling dick-boy. “Ooh, all my friends stopped skateboarding when cops showed up because we all saw that sign that says “no skateboarding” but I’ll impress my friends by pretending my iPod disabled me and give the cop some shit about not hearing him and not having a father. My friends will think I’m so cool. I hope my buddies get this on video, it’s gonna be awesome!”
Ah yes coddling. Nice term. 14 year olds deserve no respect. Abuse will learn them.