Update: British Police Official Who Said Black Men Were Comparable To “Monkeys, Chimpanzees, And Neanderthals” Gets Fired

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Via DailyMail UK:

A police officer who said that a black man looked like a monkey has been sacked, Scotland Yard said today. Metropolitan Police constable Kevin Hughes, who was based at Newham, was cleared of racially-aggravated offences in November, but has now been dismissed for gross misconduct, the force said. Hughes and fellow constable David Hair were both cleared of using threatening words or behaviour to cause alarm and distress and of racially-aggravated harassment at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in November.

Hughes, of Brentwood, Essex, admitted saying a black man looked like a monkey, while Hair was said to have told a black woman colleague he thought she was going to ‘rant’ about overtime and not do any because she was ‘going home to cook bananas’. The two officers were alleged to have used abusive language about black men while they were on patrol. The court hearing was told they referred to each other at ‘Auntie’ and ‘Uncle’ in a sing song ‘Goodness Gracious Me’ accent.

On other occasions Hughes said black people were like chimpanzees or Neanderthals. In his defence Pc Hughes claimed he was merely discussing evolution.

Chief magistrate Howard Riddle said that while Pc Hughes’s language was ‘unacceptable and offensive’, it did not amount to a criminal offence.

And he said that while the insulting nature of Hair’s comment seemed obvious to many, he did not think it was to him.

Hair was said to have been ‘mortified’ when Hughes suggested his comment could be taken as being racist.

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