Dad Loses Job After Being Out After Police Beating
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Rivera was riding his scooter when he spotted a police cruiser. The officers waived him on, but a moment later they began to follow him with their lights on. Panicked, Rivera sped away until the officers caught up with him. They reportedly slammed their cruiser into his scooter. Surveillance footage then captured officers Sean McKnight and Kevin Robinson throwing the young man against a wall, then onto the ground. They then began to beat him brutally with batons.
The officers later claimed that Rivera attacked them, but their claim was proven to be false and the two were fired and charged with aggravated assault. Justice had seemingly been served, except that the incident might have cost Rivera the job he worked hard to get.
At the time of the beating, Rivera was on a three-month probation at work – meaning that he wasn’t allowed to miss a single shift. He reported to work after the incident with an eye patch and bandages, telling his boss that he’d been in an accident. “If I had told him I had been locked up, he would have thought I was a bad guy,” Rivera said. “I can’t have you working like this,” his boss allegedly told him. He was given three days leave to heal.
On the last day of his probation, his boss handed him a termination letter that offered no explanation whatsoever. Rivera was shocked – his supervisors had been praising his work and his boss even complimented him right before terminating him. He later found out from an HR rep that he’d been let go because of the three days he took off. A union rep said that there had been no other incidents besides the beating on his record. “The only thing was the police beating,” the rep said.
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Annie March 14th, 2015 at 3:06 pm
This is why unions are so important and necessary
nola878 March 14th, 2015 at 3:14 pm
No they’re not! Don’t you realize that unions just suck the lifeblood out of the rich? How will trust fund babies survive if they have to settle for a 100 foot yacht instead of a 120 foot yacht?
Cruel creature, you are.
Annie March 14th, 2015 at 6:04 pm
Guilty as charged!
bluejayray March 14th, 2015 at 6:07 pm
…and cruelest of cruel, no car elevator!…
nola878 March 14th, 2015 at 7:38 pm
And before you know it, no dancing dressage horses!
*shudders*
The Execrable Bede March 14th, 2015 at 9:40 pm
Are you trying to put Echo & The Bunnymen out of business again? (shudders)
Bring on the Dancing Horses (official video)
bluejayray March 15th, 2015 at 11:00 am
I guess we’ll never know for sure if the horse was a tax deduction as a business expense for Mittens or as therapy for Ann. What I DO know is that I could live comfortably for several years on what they claimed as the deduction.
StoneyCurtisll March 14th, 2015 at 3:44 pm
Teamsters Local 541..
Kansas City Mo~!
Nicholas Russell Harris March 14th, 2015 at 5:29 pm
UAW Local 1268!
Belvidere, IL
Chrysler Assembly Plant
FatRat March 14th, 2015 at 3:18 pm
Not a fan of the word baton, I prefer club. Baton sounds much more benign.
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Larry Schmitt March 14th, 2015 at 8:23 pm
Although a drum major could do you some serious damage with his baton. It means stick in French.
FatRat March 14th, 2015 at 8:38 pm
Oui. (nods head in agreement.)
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Larry Schmitt March 15th, 2015 at 5:49 am
Can’t go wrong with an Animal House reference.
edmeyer_able March 14th, 2015 at 3:26 pm
Hopefully a lawyer will take up his case pro-bono and justice will prevail. Sad that tax payers end up on the hook for this but until attitudes change this will be the norm.
whatthe46 March 14th, 2015 at 3:38 pm
first of all, an assault charge is b.s. it should have been attempted murder. secondly, anytime this guy shows up for work beaten and battered, he should have been taken off of probation and losing his job should have been the least of his concern. i would love to know who the hell his former employer was.
Nicholas Russell Harris March 14th, 2015 at 5:27 pm
I think it would be a good faith act (on the part of the union) to fight for this guy to get his job back or to at least help him find another job.
StoneyCurtisll March 14th, 2015 at 3:40 pm
I wonder if Rivera has any comfort knowing not only he, but the two cops that beat the crap out of him also lost their jobs.
whatthe46 March 14th, 2015 at 4:02 pm
i think he’d be happier knowing how much he’ll receive after a law suit.
Warman1138 March 14th, 2015 at 9:57 pm
I’m not very savvy about pc stuff but maybe someone out there is that can setup a donation site or something to help this fellow out.
whatthe46 March 14th, 2015 at 10:42 pm
this arrest only came about because his girlfriend decided to do her own investigation and located a surveillance camera that actually recorded the beating. outside of that, they would have certainly gotten away with their crime. this man girlfriend was pregnant at the time. he would likely have been in jail when the baby was born having to lie in court pleading guilty because no one, not the prosecutor or the judge and likely his own damn lawyer would have believed that he did nothing wrong!
rg9rts March 15th, 2015 at 5:04 am
Hard to say…but I don’t think its the sort of place you want to work for…
Jerry Kadavi March 15th, 2015 at 11:07 am
There ought to be a law stating that lawsuit awards for police misconduct will come out of the police pension fund. Police behavior would change REEEEAL fast!!