Paul Blart, Mall Cop Gets Canned 1 Year Away From Full Pension

BALTIMORE -- A city police officer who gained national attention after his rant toward a teen skateboarder was posted on YouTube has been fired, but the issue isn't closed. Officer Salvatore Rivieri, a 19-year veteran, is no longer with the department, officials said in confirming the dismissal. The video, apparently shot in the summer of 2007, shows Rivieri putting the youth, Eric Bush, into a headlock and pushing him to the ground. Bush was 14 at the time. The clip received millions of views on YouTube and was picked up by national news channels. Rivieri was suspended and sent back on the streets in November 2008. Earlier this month, the city police trial board dismissed the most serious charges against him but found him guilty of failure to submit a police report and recommended a six-day suspension without pay; however, days later, Police Commissioner Fred Bealefeld overruled that decision and fired him. Rivieri was one year away from getting his full pension.

I'll find any excuse I can to show Officer Rivieri laying into this Tony Hawk bitch. And getting fired 3 years after the fact is as good a reason as any. I mean it's gotta be pretty rough spending your entire career chasing after 14 year olds doing kick flips on the pier and then when you finally catch their leader his mom puts the video on youtube and you get canned three years later. I'm just glad none of my students are old enough to own video cameras cause when kindergartners call me dude I lose it every time.