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scata90x 11 points ago +11 / -0

A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with sending racist WhatsApp messages.

PC Thomas Phillips, who is based in the force’s intelligence branch, faces five counts of sending offensive messages, in breach of the Communications Act 2003.

He is due to appear at Westminster magistrates’ court on 24 January 2023 and has been suspended by the force on full pay since December 2021.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) confirmed to The Independent that the charges related to alleged racially offensive messages.

Mr Phillips, of Croydon, has pleaded not guilty to all charges and was given bail, the CPS confirmed.

The Met Police said the charges related to an alleged incident that took place while he was off-duty.

The case comes after the Met, which is the UK’s largest police force, was placed under special measures in June after a series of failures.

Former PC Joel Borders, 45, is on trial at Westminster magistrates’ court along with serving Metropolitan Police constables Jonathon Cobban, 35, and William Neville, 34, for allegedly sending offensive and discriminatory messages in a WhatsApp group.

In July, two Met Police officers, in an unrelated case, were sacked after posting offensive messages in a group chat, including a racist joke about Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.

PC Sukhdev Jeer and PC Paul Hefford, who worked in a unit at Bethnal Green police station in east London, posted “inappropriate, highly offensive and discriminatory” content on WhatsApp in 2018.

In June, James Watts, a former West Mercia Police constable who posted racist WhatsApp memes mocking George Floyd’s murder, was jailed for 20 weeks.

Former Met constables Deniz Jaffer and Jamie Lewis were jailed for two years and nine months each last year for taking selfies with the bodies of murdered sisters Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry, and sharing them with friends and colleagues on WhatsApp.

A senior Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) official previously told The Independent in relation to other cases that some officers were making “risky assumptions” that unacceptable posts were safe inside private WhatsApp chats.

“That isn’t letting off steam or ‘banter’, it’s deeply offensive and undermining to public confidence and trust,” Claire Bassett, the IOPC’s deputy director general, said.

“Being a police officer is a really difficult job and we need to make sure they are fully supported, but misogyny and homophobia doesn’t do that … some of the stuff we’re talking about here is criminal.”

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scata90x 1 point ago +1 / -0

I can read comments without logging in. When the login screen pops up I press login and then I press the x to close that window.

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scata90x 9 points ago +9 / -0

With such a big heart she surely has some rooms to spare in her villa for desperate people in need.

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scata90x 5 points ago +5 / -0

They were just deported from Martha's Vineyard to Cape Cod. Looks like the hospitality of rich Democrats didn't even last a full 24 hours.

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scata90x 1 point ago +1 / -0

Zelensky's main backer, someone so corrupt that the US denied him entry.

In April 2021 Kolomoyskyi and his wife and children were banned from entering the US,[67] The United States Department of State accused him of corruptly using his time as Governor of Dnipropetrovsk to personally enrich himself. He was "involved in corrupt acts that undermined rule of law and the Ukrainian public's faith in their government's democratic institutions and public processes, including using his political influence and official power for his personal benefit."[68]

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scata90x 7 points ago +7 / -0

The irony is I don't believe the western elites ever had any intention of letting Ukraine join the EU or NATO, they just wanted a proxy war to weaken Russia.

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scata90x 3 points ago +3 / -0

I think it's also a form of humiliation to let the EU countries know they have no defense. You'd expect the Commander-in-chief of a nation to have a lifelong stellar career in the military including leadership roles like a general, preferably with combat experience. Instead they install some old lady with zero military experience.

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scata90x 1 point ago +1 / -0

Dutch Minister of Defense: a loony far-left woman who studied economics at university. I'm noticing a trend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajsa_Ollongren

Meanwhile non-western countries appoint actual military leaders with combat experience as their Minister of Defense

China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Fenghe

Wei Fenghe (Chinese: 魏凤和; pinyin: Wèi Fènghé; born February 1954) is a general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army who served as commander of the PLA Rocket Force, formerly known as the Second Artillery Corps. He is Minister of National Defence.

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scata90x 9 points ago +9 / -0

In another post she says that tarot card readings predicted she was supposed to become pregnant in November, so she got an abortion because it was a few months too early.

https://i.imgur.com/KRoA5u3.jpg

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scata90x 1 point ago +1 / -0

Sometimes chemical abortions fail and the fetus comes out alive. This bill allows it to be legally killed outside the womb. Also cases where a woman carried a baby to full term, gave birth at home and then killed her baby immediately after birth. California wants to decriminalize this because to liberals it's just a late-term abortion.

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scata90x 2 points ago +2 / -0

The Netherlands is the only country in the world with a "nitrogen crisis". As soon as you cross the border no one cares about cow poop.

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scata90x 7 points ago +7 / -0

She ended 100 years of Finnish neutrality by joining NATO and is a big fan of the WEF and carried out their order to implement hard COVID lockdowns.

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scata90x -1 points ago +1 / -2

I don't agree, because if one couple has children and another doesn't the children of one couple will grow up and subsidize the retirement of the couple that didn't have children. That's real welfare.

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scata90x 0 points ago +1 / -1

No Russia considers its low fertility a huge threat to the country's future. In the long-term it's an even bigger threat than nuclear war. If the current birth rate is maintained Russia's population will shrink by 95% in ten generations.

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scata90x 2 points ago +2 / -0

She did it herself after ordering abortion pills.

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scata90x 1 point ago +1 / -0

The First Amendment protects free speech, especially involving public figures. It's not illegal to speculate and claim things which aren't true. In order for this "defamation" case to hold water a few things need to be proven:

-That Alex Jones was motivated by malicious intent against the Sandy Hook parents.

-That Alex Jones had knowledge that the statements he was making weren't true.

-That the parents suffered severe debilitating distress as a result of his words.

-That Alex Jones is responsible for the actions of people who harassed the parents.

Instead the liberal activist female judge has automatically decided Jones is guilty because he missed a court date without the right to a trial by jury. She's telling the jury their only task is to determine how guilty he is, up to $150 million.

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scata90x 5 points ago +5 / -0

America's first spacewalk 1965. Does this look real to you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQII-O6Nn2U

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scata90x 4 points ago +4 / -0

Going by their own argument the life of a toddler is worth less than a teenager because they're much smaller and much less developed.

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scata90x 2 points ago +2 / -0

I don't know the amount but the side effects now are nothing compared to the first few months, the drug must be losing potency over time so it can't last forever.

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scata90x 4 points ago +4 / -0

I don't know the reason but I assume it must be genetic and very rare. However online I've come across many other people who got bad long-term side effects from a hydrocortisone injection. I don't think this is something that's even well-studied.

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