Uneducated Peasant: “This kid didn’t do anything but try to figure out what was going on and didn’t even have a chance to get figure out anything before that cop was all over him.”

Outraged Richard: You are either naive or an imbecile. Obviously you do not know Baltimore, skateboard culture, or common rules of respect.

For one thing, Baltimore is rife with thieves, prostitutes, drug-dealers, burglars, and murderers. This officer, Officer Salvatore Rivieri, who is already on a high level of alert for crime has to deal also with a couple of disrespectful, anti-authority kids.

Granted, cities having high crime is not an excuse for their officers to abuse citizens, but sticking your gum on the park bench in Maybury is different than sticking it somewhere in a war zone where law enforcement is on high alert.

Further, skateboarding is illegal and frowned upon in many areas because:

• Skaters grind and smash their boards against expensive fixtures causing thousands of dollars of damage.
   
• A skateboard is very unstable and lacks brakes which endangers pedestrians and automobiles responsibly using the thoroughfare.
   
• Skateboarders typically have an anti-social, destructive mentality that negatively affects social harmony.

These kids showcased all of the above. They violated the law of a no skateboarding zone. They endangered other people in the area. They showed disrespect to the officer by their posture, attitude, and denial.

The kid calling the officer, “Dude”, is disgraceful. “Dude” is a word that the doping sexing 60’s generation latched on to as another way of derogatorily interacting with another person.

These kids are the typical results of poor parenting and schooling. When you speak with an officer of the law you should say, “Yes, sir”, “No, Sir” and you straighten out your slop-neck and not hunch over like a loser.

But these criminal youth knew what they were doing was wrong all along. They wanted to instigate more trouble and show all their other loser friends a video in an attempt to disparage a law enforcement officer doing some public good.

Wrong. The officer did the right thing and should get a Distinguished Service Medal. These criminal youth should be fined and their parents fined.

Not so long ago this officer would have been just doing some usual community policing and the parents would have sent Officer Salvatore Rivieri a baked ham for Christmas.

What sums the entire ordeal up is the main loser kid, Eric Bush, muttering, "I don’t have a father." Little wonder then his lack of discipline and respect.