Crips Member Who Beat Catholics After a Prayer Rally Says He Has No Regrets
The video of a scuffle at the base of the iconic St. Louis statute initially caught the attention of the city’s top leaders. But more than a week after it happened, some say they’re shocked no one has been charged.
Terrence Page, the man who threw the punches, admits it all to News 4’s Lauren Trager, saying he has no regrets.
A local Muslim group organized a protest on June 27 to demand the St. Louis statue come down and the city get a new name.
Louis IX, St. Louis’ namesake, they say, was antisemitic and Islamophobic.
Catholics, like Conor Martin, also gathered saying the statute of the revered saint should be saved.
“We weren’t doing anything. We were literally peacefully praying the rosary,” Martin said.
Dialogue practically didn’t exist, according to people on both sides, but the event was relatively peaceful until Page arrived.
He’d been told the KKK and other white supremacists were in the crowd.
In videos posted to social media, you can see Page confront a man with a bald head. Martin jumped in, then things came to blows.
“Real change doesn’t happen unless you take those risks,” Page said.
Page says he didn’t want to talk, he wanted to act.
“Their presence alone is terrorism, because they instill fear,” he said.
He said he wanted to let people who he thought were KKK know they weren’t welcome.
GRTWT.
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