{"id":31554,"date":"2026-02-22T11:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/?p=31554"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:06:23","slug":"racism-in-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/racism-in-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism in the Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A highly regarded London police officer and hero of the London bridge attacks has been sacked for having used the racist term \u201cp*key\u201d to denote Travellers and Roma in WhatsApp messages.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>London Bridge terror attack officer sacked over &#8216;offensive&#8217; Traveller messages. In: Sky News. 21.02.2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/london-bridge-terror-attack-officer-sacked-over-offensive-traveller-messages-13510335\">https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/london-bridge-terror-attack-officer-sacked-over-offensive-traveller-messages-13510335<\/a><\/li>\n<li>London Bridge attack hero police officer sacked for gross misconduct for using &#8216;p*key&#8217; slur. In: The Standard. 21.02.2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/london-bridge-attack-police-officer-sacked-slur-b1271944.html\">https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/london-bridge-attack-police-officer-sacked-slur-b1271944.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>London Bridge attack hero sacked by police for using \u2018p*key\u2019 slur. In: The Independent. 21.02.2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/uk\/home-news\/london-police-officer-traveller-slur-b2924989.html\">https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/uk\/home-news\/london-police-officer-traveller-slur-b2924989.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Police responder to 2017 London Bridge attack sacked for \u2018derogatory\u2019 language. In: The Guardian. 21.02.2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/feb\/21\/police-responder-to-2017-london-bridge-attack-sacked-for-derogatory-language\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/feb\/21\/police-responder-to-2017-london-bridge-attack-sacked-for-derogatory-language<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A highly regarded London police officer and hero of the London bridge attacks has been sacked for having used the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3097-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,614],"tags":[684,63],"class_list":["post-31554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-western-europe","category-uk","tag-police","tag-racism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3097-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31556,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31554\/revisions\/31556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}