#british profile

[newsfromstolenland]

In one private chat group conversation, a Mountie was accused of saying a new female employee "was overweight and insinuating that the shape of her vagina was visible through her clothing."

In another, a second RCMP officer allegedly bragged about "Tasering unarmed Black people" and called a sexual assault investigation "stupid" — drawing comments from other members of the online group who "made fun of the victim" and said, "she's a dumb Mexican c--t."

An investigator with the RCMP's professional standards unit detailed those allegations and many more in a search warrant sworn to obtain evidence now being used to call for the firing of three Coquitlam Mounties for violating the force's code of conduct.

The CBC has obtained a copy of the search warrant — which recounts behaviour which led the officer who sparked the investigation to complain to RCMP brass about what he saw as "atrocious" and "racist and horrible" activity in a private group operating on the Signal messaging app.

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More from this article below the cut, because I think it's important to understand just how much fucked up shit they were saying:

(tw misogyny, domestic violence, racial profiling, anti-Indigenous racism, racism)

The documents reveal that investigators also reviewed 600,000 messages posted to the RCMP's internal mobile data chat logs — finding evidence of "frequently offensive" usage by the three officers facing termination of "homophobic and racist slurs."

"The reviewers had identified a variety of comments that were 'chauvinist in nature, with a strong air of superiority, and include flippant or insulting remarks about clients (including objectifying women), supervisors, colleagues, policy and the RCMP as a whole,'" the warrant says.

Code of conduct hearings against Const. Philip Dick, Const. Ian Solven and Const. Mersad Mesbah had been slated to begin in Surrey this week but have been adjourned until March of next year. All three officers have been suspended since June 2021.

Although Dick, Solven and Mesbah appear to be the only Mounties currently facing code-of-conduct hearings, the court documents say seven other officers were also part of the private chat group — including two supervisors.

Among the details contained in the search warrant are allegations one of the officers facing discipline joked about a domestic violence victim, calling the victim "a dumb f--king bitch, should've worn a mouth guard."

The whistleblower — Const. Sam Sodhi — claimed that outside of the private chat group, members of the group also "belittled Indigenous people, talking about how they were 'stupid' or 'drunk' and saying they have 'unfortunate bodies' and all have fetal alcohol syndrome."

"They would say, 'We're not going to the reserve,'" the search warrant claims Sodhi told investigators.

"We're not going there because we're not going to help those people."

According to the court documents, Sodhi was posted to Coquitlam in 2019.

"As part of that process, he wrote a letter about wanting to work in an urban centre and help at-risk youth that didn't have role models," the warrant claims.

But Sodhi claimed that on his second day at work, Dick — his trainer — asked him: "Are you a cool brown guy, or are you a Surrey brown guy? Because in that letter, you're whiny, like, 'Ooh, I want to help brown people.'"

Sodhi claimed there were two chat groups for members of the Coquitlam detachment assigned to Port Coquitlam — one for all members of the watch and a second private group that began on WhatsApp but then moved to Signal. He said he was told once he was "worthy" of the private chat group, "we'll add you to it."

The officer claimed he was admitted to the private chat group in March 2021 but left after a few days because of the "constant negativity." He said he was then accused of "not being a team member" and encouraged to return.

According to the search warrant, Sodhi complained to his superiors in May 2021, and a chief superintendent mandated an investigation into five Mounties — including a corporal who was accused of failing to take measures to prevent misconduct.

The probe initially focused on text communications between the RCMP's own laptops — known as Mobile Data Terminals. Investigators reviewed messages between the five men from January 2019 until May 2021.

"When members of the [Signal] chat group realized there was an investigation, they opined that the investigation was probably about 'MDT chats' ... since the private chat group was kept 'amongst the trusted' and 'there's no way this got out,'" the warrant says.

Examples cited from the RCMP computers include statements like, "Why do brown guys have unusually high pitched voices." "As an idiot woman would say ... 'toxic,'" and, "I just racially profile pulled over a car."

A review of the chat logs also allegedly found the three officers facing termination "appeared to use 'goldfish' as a slur for Asian people."

"For example, they talked about how 'goldfish' have 'bulging eyes' that 'can't see anything,' how a Korean church in the detachment was a 'goldfish church' and how 'goldfish' were bad drivers (a common Asian stereotype)," the warrant says.

[thunderstruck9]

David Forrester Wilson (British, 1873-1950), Wind. Pencil and gouache on paper laid on board, 18 ½ x 14 in.

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

James Sant (1820-1916) "Portrait of his wife Elizabeth and daughter" (1852) Oil on canvas

[fyblackwomenart]

Adebanji Alade

[allthecanadianpolitics]

An Indigenous father and daughter in British Columbia are accusing Canadian Tire and its third-party security company of racial profiling and racism after they say he was singled out at a store in Coquitlam and an employee responded with a racist comment. Dawn Wilson is speaking publicly about the human rights complaint she and her father, Richard Wilson, filed after years of trying to settle the dispute herself, saying she hopes it will lead to systemic change at the retail giant. The complaint alleges that on Jan. 17, 2020, the pair purchased new tires for installation and shopped in-store while they waited. At the checkout, Wilson says a guard with the company Blackbird Security asked to search her father’s backpack, despite other customers also having similar bags.

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[naughtylilotter]

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[cutebottledspider]

Anthony Boyle and Arthur Hughes during the promotion of Shardlake (2024).

[loserboyfriendrjl]

i'm extremely curious on your headcanons on the black family. like their ethnicity, traditions, dynamics or whatever you want really. personally i feel they're the family with the greatest canonical depiction of the cycle of abuse and how regardless of wealth and privilege things like trauma can still rip a house/people apart.

if i got into them i feel like i would never be able to stop talking, and my characterisation of the black family is majorly different from what other people see them like but i will tell you a bit about them.

as for traditions, i believe they have holiday dinners (i consider them to be orthodox), two of them; on christmas eve, they celebrate with the entire pureblooded society. the diners are always hosted by the black house and they have dances, recitals, food and it’s incredibly formal; people come dressed in dress robes, suits and dresses and they discuss politics and beliefs about the society. on the christmas day, they have a family dinner, which is about the same as the one with the high-class society, but they have their own rituals (lighting up candles and remembering their heritage). at the birth of daughters, they drink white wine (to symbolise the purity that the birth of a girl brings), whereas when a son is born, they drink red wine (violence; spillage of blood).

i think that the most complex and compelling dynamic, for me, is the one between sirius and walburga. sirius sees himself in her; the same determination, fury and intelligence; they even look the same. he pities her, as a person; as a son, he despises her, for not trying more, for not trying harder. she loves him, she so obviously does; in her own, twisted way. she’s proud of him; he would make a great heir. she sees him as both a son and the object of her womb, the pig for slaughter; the heir. she is not her mother, but a stranger he never knew. her last act before succumbing to death was burning him off the tapestry; she hoped he’d come back. he never did.

between him and orion, the dynamic is simpler; they despise each other. sirius is too brash, too opinionated for orion (who was another victim of the cycle, of his own father), much like his mother, walburga, and sirius believes of his father to have been too distant and cold to ever be able to have a relationship with each other, of any kind, let alone the one between a father and a son. he hates orion; there is nothing but bitterness.

sirius and regulus are also complicated; here’s a post that describes their dynamic.

the traitors, the ones who escaped, they pity the ones who stayed. the ones who stayed, a handful of them hate those who left for leaving; the others, resent them for leaving their family, their legacy, behind.

[thekenobee]

actually, while on the topic of the ipswich episode: Hastings: Where is it? Poirot: Ipswich. Hastings: Oh, brilliant! Where I went before. Will there be more learning how to understand people? Poirot: No, Arthur. I think you understand as much about people as you ever will. Hastings: Thanks, Mum Poirot! What a nice thing to say! Poirot: Case in point.

BEHOLD- Ipswich episode meets Poirot! Cabin Pressure + Poirot (Part 10)

[princesscatherineblog]

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[petit-papillion]

Charles really knows how to change up just a part of his helmet to keep the same look and feel, yet make a significant statement.

Tribute to Charles's first open wheel racing victory

British GP Practice Day | 5 July 2024

📸 Callo Albanese

[thunderstruck9]

Ken Currie (British, 1960), Head in Profile 1/2, 2017. Monotype, 45 x 32.2 cm. Edition of 1

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Frederick Sandys (1829-1904) "Love's Shadow" (1867) Oil on panel Pre-Raphaelite The painting's sitter is actress Mary Emma Jones, Sandys' common-law wife. She is biting the blooms of blue violets, which are a symbol of love and devotion in Victorian floriography

[michael-svetbird]

ANAHITA | Anaïtis "in the guise of Aphrodite or Artemis": Bronze head from a cult statue of Persian Goddess Anahita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anahita Asia Minor | Armenia 200-100 BC Hellenistic | Roman Imperial [?] bronze work Found in Satala, modern-day Türkiye, in 1872

The British Museum, London | BM [Ground fl., Room 22 08|24]

Web : https://www.britishmuseum.org

FB : https://www.facebook.com/britishmuseum

IG, X : @ britishmuseum

YT : https://www.youtube.com/user/britishmuseum

BM | Michael Svetbird phs©msp | 17|08|24 6500X4700 600 [I.] The photographed object is collection item of BM [Non-commercial fair use | No AI | Author rights apply | Sorry for the watermarks].

📸 Part of the "PROFILE Shots" MSP Online Photo-gallery:

👉 D-ART: https://www.deviantart.com/svetbird1234/gallery/89669842/profile-shots

👉 FB Album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2017689605266273&type=3

👉 PINTEREST: https://www.pinterest.com/Michael_Svetbird/profile-shots

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[clove-pinks]

I want to be an 1830s gentleman.

I will spell trousers as trowsers and use degrees farenheit. I will watch celebrated actors like Mr. Charles Mathews and Madame Vestris at the Olympic Theatre and the Royal Gardens Vauxhall. I'll have oysters and French dishes at an eating house and try not to die of cholera. I would go to grog shops every night and take the steam packet to Calais. I am also more likely to meet Washington Irving, George Cruikshank, Captain Marryat and William IV.

I wish I was an 1830s gentleman. :(

(the original)

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𝙼𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚞𝚜 𝙳𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚎𝚗 𝙷𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝

Damien Steven Hirst (/hɜːrst/; né Brennan; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth estimated at US$384 million in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.

𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝1 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝2 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝3 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝4 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝6 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝7 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝8 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝9

𝙵𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 & 𝙵𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚜 - 𝙳𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚣 𝙺𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚕 𝚁𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚡 𝚋𝚢 𝙽/𝚊, 𝚁𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚊