No, not those dumb@sses in the Land of Two Rivers and the beheadings, torture and summary executions. My name is Dan Page and my territory is St. Louis, don’t you cross my path or you will die.
Suspended St. Louis Police Officer: “I’m Into Diversity, I Kill Everybody”
By Allen McDuffee | The Wire | 5 hours ago |A St. Louis County police officer, who was seen pushing a CNN anchor during protests in Ferguson, Mo., this week, was suspended from duty after a controversial video surfaced, in which he fashions himself as a merciless killer.
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NOTE: Sgt Major Dan Page a ‘Vietnam Veteran” retired from the military in 2012, currently Peace Officer with St. Louis County police. Gepubliceerd op 1 mei 2014 by Sargent Dan Page uploaded by thenewsurvivalist. This jack@ss uses the same rhetoric as racist John Kasper in Clinton, Tennessee in 1956. Speaks about the Supreme Courts justices as “black robe perverts.”
“I personally believe in Jesus Christ as my lord and savior, but I’m also a killer,” said officer Dan Page, a 35-year veteran, in the video. “I’ve killed a lot. And if I need to, I’ll kill a whole bunch more. If you don’t want to get killed, don’t show up in front of me. I have no problems with it. God did not raise me to be a coward.” Page added, “I’m into diversity — I kill everybody. I don’t care.”
St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said Page has been suspended, pending a review by the internal affairs unit, which will begin Monday. The video was brought to Belmar’s attention by CNN’s Don Lemon.
“With the comments on killing, that was obviously something that deeply disturbed me immediately,” Belmar told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Ferguson: officer relieved of duty after video of racist remarks surfaces | The Guardian |
Dan Page was recorded in April giving a speech in which he described President Barack Obama as an illegal immigrant, and railed against Muslims and gay people. “I’m into diversity – I kill everybody,” he said.
Page – who was seen live on CNN earlier this week threatening to arrest the network’s anchor Don Lemon – is the second St Louis county officer to have been stood down in controversial circumstances surrounding the Ferguson protests. Lieutenant Ray Albers was suspended on Wednesday after video emerged of him pointing his assault weapon at protestors and threatening to kill them.
In his speech, Page, who claims to have been a sergeant major in the US army and a Vietnam war veteran, sharply criticised laws intended to protect minorities from racially-motivated hatred and to help increase ethnic diversity.
Citing the US declaration of independence’s statement that “all men are created equal”, he said: “That does not mean affirmative action. It means we’re all equal … God does not respect persons so we have no business passing hate crime laws.”
Dan Page member of the Oathkeepers and a third officer, Matt Pappert, suspended for posts on social media …
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St. Louis County officer suspended over video, Glendale officer suspended for Facebook comments
From Staff Reports | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 3 hours ago |The video of Page was apparently made in 2012 before a group called the Oath Keepers of St. Louis and St. Charles. It is unclear where it was shot. Glendale officer Matthew Pappert was also suspended after posting on social media that he thought the Ferguson protesters should be “put down like rabid dogs.”
In the wake of the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer and weeks of ensuing protests, the two incidents illustrate the glare that the international news story has cast on local police. While he would have reacted to the video the same way absent the Ferguson protests, even Belmar admitted that he wouldn’t have faced the same pressure to maintain the county police force’s image.
Belmar told the Post-Dispatch that Page’s comments defaming President Barack Obama, the U.S. Supreme Court, Muslims and various sexual orientations would likely have triggered disciplinary review for being “beyond the scope of acceptable police conduct.”
But it was Page’s comments in the video describing himself, in Belmar’s words, as “an indiscriminate killer, that it didn’t matter what your race or background was” that most concerned the police chief.
Glendale officer Matthew Pappert suspended
Pappert was suspended after posting on Facebook that the Ferguson protesters were “a burden on society and a blight on the community,” according to posts preserved by news and opinion website “The Daily Caller.” Another post that appears to come from Pappert says the “protestors should have been put down like rabid dogs the first night.”
Jeffrey Beaton, chief of police in the small St. Louis County suburb of roughly 6,000 people, said the comments of Pappert were brought to his attention at roughly 10:40 a.m. Friday morning and “an internal investigation was immediately initiated.” Pappert was immediately suspended until the investigation is complete, Beaton said, which shouldn’t take longer than “a couple weeks.”
According to the City of Glendale 2013 Annual Report, Pappert is a firearms instructor and part of the Crisis Intervention Team. And his comments did not happen in a vacuum. Glendale has 11 officers and eight civilian employees. Pappert is friends with at least one police officer and five of the civilian employees.
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