A video showing a Riverside Police Department officer destroying a person's skateboard has gone viral, prompting an internal investigation. The video shows officers at a residence where they were attempting to speak with a man's boyfriend. When no one answered the door, one officer found a skateboard and attempted to perform skateboarding tricks before another officer broke it with a hammer. The police department acknowledged the incident and stated that Chief Gonzalez has initiated a thorough investigation.
The Riverside Police Department has launched an investigation after a video surfaced showing one of its officers reportedly destroying a person’s skateboard while they were not home. In the viral video, which had more than 370,000 views as of Friday, half a dozen officers walk into the driveway of a girlfriend of a man they were trying to speak to, according to the video's narrator. No one was apparently home when they knocked on the door.
The officer then tries several times to perform the trick. Another officer is then seen picking up a hammer and stomping on the skateboard before breaking it in half. The police department released a statement acknowledging that one of its officers damaged the skateboard. The video and the statement did not explain why police wanted to talk to the boyfriend of the woman who lived at the home.
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