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A police officer's job is on the line after Team 5 Investigates discovered he's the man behind a highly offensive and public Facebook page.Watch ReportThe page includes posts targeting people of different races, religions, sexual orientations and more.Some so offensive that NewsCenter 5 has elected to withhold what they say. Team 5 discovered the page is all the work of veteran MBTA Police Officer Jason Barriteau who disguises himself as "Al Sharpton" online.Barriteau sports a woman's pink wig in the profile picture on the Facebook page.In the crosshairs of his online rants is the diverse population he's sworn to serve and protect at the MBTA where he patrols the Orange Line and Ruggles Station in the heart of Roxbury.Barriteau has plenty to say online, but when Team 5 showed up to ask Barriteau about the page he told Team 5's Kathy Curran, "I know who you are, I'm not going to say nothing to you so I'm all set." Barriteau hopped in his car and drove away.A quick scroll through Barriteau's Facebook page is evidence he doesn't care who he offends. The page was public, the comments are repulsive.Two posts degrade people with Down syndrome.There is a photo where Barriteau is photo-shopped into a picture wearing his MBTA Transit police T-shirt with his arm around a partially naked transsexual and a beer in hand. In another he's sporting a T-shirt with the Pillsbury doughboy mimicking Adolph Hitler with the words "white flour" printed below.Team 5 asked the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, Robert Trestan, to take a look at Barriteau's posts.Trestan called the doughboy T-shirt highly offensive, "It brings up all the memories of the millions of people who were killed during World War II. Some of the photos project racism and some of the photos project anti-Semitism and it's concerning."Trestan said the page calls into question the impartiality of the officer."Our expectation is that they're going to enforce the law with complete impartiality, with complete fairness to everyone they encounter and when the public has access to these types of graphic images, it can lead people to call into question that impartiality," he said.MBTA officials said most of the posts are clear violations of the Transit Police Department's social networking policy which they say all department members were briefed on in July after another officer was caught making a troubling remark online.Officer Joseph Rossi was removed from his position at the Transit Police Academy for a post that read: "Farther's (sic) Day, the most confusing day in Roxbury."MBTA General Manager Beverly Scott said when she looked at Barriteau's page she was shocked, "That's the best way I could describe it. As I flipped from one picture to the other it was so offensive on every front. This is what you call just plain old deliberate, you knew what you were doing, it's just totally unacceptable. You know, it was blatant."Officer Barriteau is on paid administrative leave.According to court documents from a 2003 case, Barriteau was on scene while another MBTA officer beat a drunken man and struck him in the head with a pipe. Barriteau was granted immunity in that case.