Police constable, 31, who admitted sharing racist memes and jokes mocking death of George Floyd with friends on WhatsApp is jailed for 20 weeks

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1. Result is an absolutely disgusting stain on a country people kid themselves has freedom, IMO. Sack him by all means, he’s clearly not professionally suited to the job, but to criminalise him over this is pathetic.

2. Should be a fireable but not criminal offence, let alone one you can go to jail for.

3. That’s pretty crazy. All the articles I’ve read were pretty serious crimes just got suspended sentences but this guy actually has to do time.

4. Lucky to get only a few weeks, this is a lighter sentence than victimless crimes like burglaries and drug dealing gets. Racism like this oppresses 25% of the population of the UK

5. Meh, seems a bit harsh. Also fuck em.

   I’m sure there are better miscarriages of justice to be concerned with here.

   Oddly, many of our new friends think this is the worst miscarriage of justice since the Birmingham six.

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7. What exactly was he charged with?

8. It’s not appropriate to imprison someone for peaceful speech.

9. And we call ourselves a free country

   Im sorry but pedophiles skip jail but a guy sharing offensive shit gets time? The UK justice system is a joke

10. What a joke, prison for Ffloydey memes

11. This is pretty fucked up.

    Cunty, sure, but being a cunt shouldn’t get plod knocking on your door.

12. Jailed for shitposting…. I mean…. what kind of precedent does this set? Very Orwellian

13. Government should have no business looking at peoples private messages.

14. I’m not sure how to feel about this. On one hand it seems like an overreach of justice and could have scary implications for our privacy. On the other it’s nice to see this shit stain do some time. Him being a police constable makes the ruling seem more reasonable to me; police should be held to a much higher standard.

15. I don’t feel this needs a prison sentence, he should have fired from him job.

16. Guy is a racist prick. But prison for private WhatsApp message memes? We might have free healthcare but we don’t have freedom.

17. Horrible communist country