St. Louis policeman suspended after video emerges

[summer]

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A St. Louis County police officer, who was seen earlier this week attempting to shut down Don Lemon's live broadcast on CNN, has been suspended after a video emerged in which he made racist, inflammatory remarks.



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The video, which the St. Louis Post-Dispatchreports was made in 2012 in front of a group called the Oath Keepers of St. Louis and St. Charles, shows officer Dan Page making disturbing remarks about Muslims ("Muslims are passive until they gain parity with you or they exceed you in numbers and they will kill you"), President Barak Obama, and killing, saying "I'm into diversity. I kill everybody. I don't care":

"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."

During a slideshow displaying images from a recent trip to Kenya, he says:

"I said 'I wanna go find where that illegal alien claiming to be my president, my undocumented president, lives at.'"

St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Page, who has been with the department for 35 years, has been suspended pending a review by the internal affairs unit. "With the comments on killing," Belmar said, "that was obviously something that deeply disturbed me immediately." Belmar issued a public apology for the video on Friday, saying:

" apologize to the community and anybody who is offended by these remarks, and understand from me that he ... does not represent the rank-and-file of the St. Louis County Police Department."

Belmar has also ordered a psychological evaluation of Page.

[sparrowsong]

I thought I read somewhere that three officers had been suspended. This guy, officer gokuckyourself and who else? Or did they mean Darren Wilson as the third?

[katfco]

Aug 23, 2014 13:46:05 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

i have no problem thinking that he is contributing to a certain culture within the department. i do not think at all he is simply one random rogue racist cop in STL

This was my thought, also. If one person with these attitudes is dumb enough to say them in public, how many more are there who feel the same, but keep it to themselves? 

[cinnamoncox]

He has no problem talking like this in public because he knows (or at least believes) that everyone agrees with him. So I'm sure his attitude isn't his alone. I truly hope this gets more and more of the rotten police out of there and make some room for more diverse and tolerant officers on the force. Then hopefully it'll spread.

[anodyne]

Aug 23, 2014 12:54:30 GMT -5 sparrowsong said:

I thought I read somewhere that three officers had been suspended. This guy, officer gokuckyourself and who else? Or did they mean Darren Wilson as the third?

That is not counting Darren Wilson.  Here is the third.

dailycaller.com/2014/08/22/st-louis-area-cop-thinks-protesters-should-be-put-down-like-rabid-dogs/?utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fm.stltoday.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fcrime-and-courts%2Fst-louis-county-officer-suspended-over-video-glendale-officer-suspended%2Farticle_44544bee-b353-5f86-aeb2-d13238a9fdc2.html%3Fmobile_touch%3Dtrue

[anodyne]

I have a feeling there will be more to come.

The officer who arrested the two journalists at McDs, has a pending case after he hog tied and choked a 12 yo boy who was getting his mail from the end of his driveway. This article also speaks of another FPO who is accused of pistol whipping a 12 yo girl.

m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5705409?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016

[elleblue]

Aug 24, 2014 18:57:15 GMT -5 anodyne said:

I have a feeling there will be more to come.

The officer who arrested the two journalists at McDs, has a pending case after he hog tied and choked a 12 yo boy who was getting his mail from the end of his driveway. This article also speaks of another FPO who is accused of pistol whipping a 12 yo girl.

m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5705409?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016

Holy crap. 

[anodyne]

Officer go fuck yourself has resigned. FB officer fired.

m.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_4e9f0ee5-a8ab-5cc8-ab1a-5e8be57612ca.html?mobile_touch=true

[anodyne]

And Page has now retired.

www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-louis-county-officer-suspended-for-youtube-rant-retires/article_0aac1f5c-ee91-59da-86dc-6836bc0c3001.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed