Cop to skateboarder: Don't call me dude.

Well, it was HIS fault we broke up, not mine.

 

Geez, the cop made a not-so-veiled death threat against the kid. No excuse for that. The cop needs to be fired and the kid's parents ought to sue the Baltimore P.D. from here to Tuesday.

 

The cop is a complete douche and deserves to be punished but why does everything have to end up with someone being sued.

 

That area in Baltimore (the Inner Harbor) is a real nice place. If you're ever in that town, go to a nice restaurant around there and get the crab cakes.

Just leave your skateboard at home or you might get killed.

 

Everything doesn't. Cop making death threats to a 14-year-old might be worthy of it though.

 

I read some of the comments on the Baltimore Sun site predicting that the officer would be fired. I got a good laugh out of that. They have no idea how a large municipal police department works.

He will get a nice paid vacation for a few weeks while it's "investigated" (a joke in itself), then he'll be ordered to serve a half-day suspension without pay or something. The union will fight that penalty tooth and nail. It will tied up in arbitration for 18 months. Maybe they'll compromise by making him watch a 30-minute video on anger management.

Police are absolutely untouchable. Rivieri knows that. I guarantee you, he's not worried. He's laughing about this with his fellow cops right now.

 

So nobody's going to defend this officer and say that maybe it was the only way for the kid to learn some manners and to respect authority figures?

 

You meant to use the blue font, right?

 

Perhaps. Come to think of it, when Hondo says the cop should be fired, you know the guy was out of line.

 

My favourite lines:

"I am not 'man'.

I am not 'dude'.

I am Officer Rivieri".

Poetry.

 

They don't make me nervous, unless they're shooting past people at 25 miles per hour on their skateboards, sending old ladies sprawling. I'm not thrilled with cyclists of that stripe, but that's not what we're talking about. No, skateboarding is not a crime. Using your skateboard to terrorize people is.

 

Dude! Since when is being called "Dude" akin to being called a dickhead or a loser?

Reminds me of the "BASEketball" flick: "Dude! Dude. Duuude! Dude? Dude."