{"id":9670,"date":"2026-06-10T14:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9670"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:22:37","slug":"met-officer-gross-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/06\/10\/met-officer-gross-misconduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Officer &#8220;gross misconduct&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s a digital thread running through this case, reported by Hyphen&#8217;s Anita Mureithi: &#8220;Chairing the hearing on Tuesday, Met deputy assistant commissioner Carl Galvin found that Eldered\u2019s social media activity, which occurred while he was still a serving officer, \u201cshowed an Islamophobic bias\u201d that was likely to interfere with his ability to carry out impartial policing duties.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-bluesky wp-block-embed-bluesky\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:w2gnrc2ncngzhhwkv2uib3mx\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mnwp3ogz6c2e\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreift7exf35tvnl6lnpau5ar2nuozrdlv2i6zayibl5pc656iq4ohfa\"><p lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udd34An ex-Metropolitan Police officer has been found guilty of gross misconduct after sharing racist and Islamophobic social media posts, including calling the Qur\u2019an a \u2018terrorist handbook\u2019, while serving with the force.Full story by @anitamureithi.bsky.social:hyphenonline.com\/2026\/06\/10\/j&#8230;<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:w2gnrc2ncngzhhwkv2uib3mx?ref_src=embed\">Hyphen (@hyphenonline.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:w2gnrc2ncngzhhwkv2uib3mx\/post\/3mnwp3ogz6c2e?ref_src=embed\">2026-06-10T12:20:01.571Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a digital thread running through this case, reported by Hyphen&#8217;s Anita Mureithi: &#8220;Chairing the hearing on Tuesday, Met deputy assistant commissioner Carl Galvin found that Eldered\u2019s social media activity, which occurred while he was still a serving officer, \u201cshowed an Islamophobic bias\u201d that was likely to interfere with his ability to carry out impartial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,449,865],"tags":[339,685,1130],"class_list":["post-9670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamophobia","category-anti-muslim-prejudice","category-policing","tag-islamophobia","tag-anti-muslim-prejudice","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9671,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670\/revisions\/9671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}