Police Officer Fired for Racist Posts About Non-Muslims

Published on October 24, 2024

The Metropolitan Police have fired an officer after she admitted in a misconduct hearing to posting racist messages on social media, including against non-Muslims and Jewish people. Ruby Begum, 29, was fired on Wednesday after she admitted to using discriminatory language on social media platform X, including calling non-Muslims “kuffar,” posting “Zionists have no heart,” and using a racist term derived from a shortened form of “Pakistani.” She had also made controversial statements about the 9/11 terror attacks. The panel said Begum’s posts were “racist, discriminatory and intolerant,” ruling that she had committed gross misconduct and should be dismissed without notice. The hearing’s Chairwoman Evis Samupfonda said that the posts were “so vile that members of the public could not be confident they would be treated fairly” by the officer....

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