Missouri Cops Suspended Over Racial Outbursts

[Jazzy]

Two Missouri police officers who were involved in crowd control following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager have been suspended after it emerged they made racially charged outbursts.

Internal investigations have been launched after one officer boasted of being a Jesus-loving "killer", while another compared protesters to a "rabid dog".

The disciplinary action came as a third consecutive night of restrained demonstrations took place in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson over the August 9 police shooting of Michael Brown.

Authorities remain braced for a possible flare-up of disturbances as the 18-year-old's funeral looms on Monday.

Officer Dan Page of the St Louis County Police Department was removed from active duty on Friday after a YouTube video, apparently filmed in 2012, surfaced.

In the clip, Page is seen addressing a St Louis chapter of the Oath Keepers, a conservative group, saying: "I personally believe in Jesus Christ as my lord saviour, but I'm also a killer.

"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."

The 35-year police veteran and former serviceman adds: "I'm into diversity. I kill everybody, I don't care."

He also made disparaging remarks about Muslims and called President Barack Obama "an illegal alien".

The police department was made aware of the clip by a CNN anchor who was shoved by Page during a live report from Ferguson.

The outburst was condemned by St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar, who has been scrambling to repair community relations amid claims from African-Americans that local law enforcement is racist.

Chief Belmar said he was "deeply disturbed" by the comments, which he termed "so bizarre".

Also on Friday, a police department in another St Louis suburb, Glendale, said an officer had been suspended after he posted Facebook rants aimed at Ferguson protesters.

Michael Pappert wrote: "I'm sick of these protesters. You are a burden on society and a blight on the community."

He also wrote: "These protesters should have been put down like a rabid dog the first night."

In an apparent reference to the Boston marathon bombing, he wrote: "Where is a Muslim with a backpack when you need them."

Pappert was one of hundreds of St Louis area police officers called into Ferguson as crowd-control reinforcements, according to press photographers.

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[+paradox]

He also made disparaging remarks about Muslims and called President Barack Obama "an illegal alien".

I would wager any amount of money that this is the main reason these cops got into trouble. Any disparaging remark towards the imposter who poses as our president is considered racist. *YAWN* Total bullshit, that is. I don't hate him because he's half black, I hate him because he's systematically destroying my country. Not to mention, he probably IS an illegal alien.
it's funny how you take a story about cops being racist to obama... that is laughable... even though i disagree with obama, this is not about obama, it's about cops being racist and saying racist remarks towards blacks/african americans...

As for the rest of the story, it's just another example of cops having that "I'm untouchable" attitude. They believe they are above the law and a vast majority of them have a serious God-complex.
that's the main reason and that the government and police is getting out of control...

 

[TommyTooter]

He also made disparaging remarks about Muslims and called President Barack Obama "an illegal alien".

I would wager any amount of money that this is the main reason these cops got into trouble. Any disparaging remark towards the imposter who poses as our president is considered racist. *YAWN* Total bullshit, that is. I don't hate him because he's half black, I hate him because he's systematically destroying my country. Not to mention, he probably IS an illegal alien.
it's funny how you take a story about cops being racist to obama... that is laughable... even though i disagree with obama, this is not about obama, it's about cops being racist and saying racist remarks towards blacks/african americans...

As for the rest of the story, it's just another example of cops having that "I'm untouchable" attitude. They believe they are above the law and a vast majority of them have a serious God-complex.
that's the main reason and that the government and police is getting out of control...

anybody who thinks that the office of president of the united states has been used to serve the people of this nation at any time since november 22, 1963 is simply deluded. since lyndon johnson, there has been a procession of puppets sitting at the resolute desk in the oval orifice. obama isn't doing jack shit to this country on his own. neither did dubya, three dollar bill or any of the rest of them except maybe jimmy carter. obombus is nothing but a speech reader and errand boy for the rothschild-morgan cartel's chicago good old boy crowd.

dwight eisenhower warned us of the consequences of misplaced power in the hands of overzealous leaders of the military industrial complex. we sat idly by and swallowed the cover stories for the kennedy and king assassinations and have allowed the defense industry to thrive while our infrastructure crumbles and our inner cities revert to barbarism.

these are justice louis brandeis' prophetic words from the conclusion to his dissent to the 1928 olmsted decision, which was the first conviction obtained using warrantless wiretap evidence, which was upheld 5-4

Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperilled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means—to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal—would bring terrible retribution. Against that pernicious doctrine this Court should resolutely set its face.

 

[+paradox]

^ exactly...