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. “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. The comments, which were made before members of the Christian organization, the Oath Keepers, also included his story of going to Kenya in search of "undocumented president," Barack Obama. “I flew to Africa, right there, and I went to our undocumented president’s home,” Page said, holding a picture of him in Kenya. “He was born in Kenya.” Page has been ordered to take a psychiatric exam, according to Belmar, who issued a public apology for Page's remarks. “He does not represent the rank-and-file of [the] St. Louis County Police Department,” Belmar told CNN in a Friday on-air interview. http://www.thewire.com/national/201...er-im-into-diversity-i-kill-everybody/379026/
A police officer involved in the protests over Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri, has been relieved of his duty after video surfaced of him making racist and derogatory remarks. 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.” “This here”, he added, brandishing a copy of the Bible, “is the foundation for this”, meaning the declaration of independence. Referring to the justices of the supreme court in Washington DC, he added: “You can’t separate them. I don’t know what them black-robed perverts don’t understand down there.” Page made his remarks during an address earlier this year to a St Louis branch of the Oath Keepers, an association of former and serving military personnel, police officers and first responders. The group says that its members “pledge to fulfill the oath all military and police take to ‘defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic’”. At one point during a slideshow of his past travels, Page displayed a photograph of himself in Kenya. “I said ‘I wanna go find where that illegal alien claiming to be my president, my undocumented president, lives at.’” He has previously said in interviews that he retired from the army because of Obama. Page also told the audience in his speech: “If you take a stand against sodomy or abortion you’re a terrorist, ladies and gentlemen … In the military right now we have open sodomy, people holding hands, people swapping spit together. Sick. It’s pitiful.” Later in his remarks, Page told a questioner in the audience: “Policemen are very cynical. I know I am. I don’t trust anybody. I hate everybody. I hate y’all, too. I hate everybody. I’m into diversity – I kill everybody. I don’t care.” After viewing the video clip, the Guardian asked a St Louis County police spokesman repeatedly throughout Friday to confirm that Page was indeed a police officer who had worked on the protests. The spokesman initially said: “I don’t recognise the name.” CNN first reported that Page was being relieved of his duties on Friday afternoon. The St Louis spokesman then confirmed to the Guardian that he was a county officer and added that Page had been “relieved of duty from here and placed in an administrative capacity pending an internal investigation”. John Moore, a radio presenter and fellow Vietnam veteran who said he had been friends with Page for 26 years, told the Guardian on Friday Page had served in the St Louis police for “more than 20 years” and had remained a military reservist until recently. “He’s been up to his eyeballs in a riot for about two weeks, dealing with rioters in 100 degree humidity. It’s rough. It’s a warzone,” said Moore. “He’s been working 12-hour shifts with no access to proper rest, proper food.” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/23/ferguson-officer-relieved-duty-video-racist-remarks
How many years did the blue wall of silence protect this lunatic? This guy is a disgrace - and so are the people who covered for him.
I honestly thought the first post was satire... then I realized it was real and my balls crawled back up into my body cavity.
Good for him! We need more of this kind of open-mindedness on the police force. People should be applauding his ability to see everyone as a target equally. Bravo sir, bravo.
They probably got an extra armored vehicle from Homeland Security just for him to drive and kill everyone.
Wow! Haven't we more willing to express moral outrage? Not a very good showing of support for the victims of all oppression. I think the fellow made an error when he quoted from the DI, the creator, That means Jesus. He was in error, you need not take Jesus as god to understand the DI, nor did Jefferson intend you must. He used the word creator for it's broad meaning with no intent to speak only to a Christian. He spoke of this more than once in his other writings.
Sounds like he's becoming another Sgt. Barnes from the movie, Platoon. It's time to retire that fool.
Ugh, the Oath Keepers. My cousin is a member of that lunatic organization and is sitting in jail for a long time because of it.
I completely relate to this post. A guy this polluted in thought isn't capable of keeping these thoughts to himself. How he has kept a badge and gun this long is an embarrassing law enforcement. Officers that allowed this to occur or cover up for him hurt themselves and other officers.
