One of Australia’s top police officers has quit after being linked to crude racist, sexist and pornographic online posts that his boss described Tuesday as “shocking”. Victoria state’s assistant commissioner Brett Guerin, who was also an ethics chief, resigned late Monday after an explosive report in Melbourne’s The Age newspaper detailing numerous YouTube posts written under his alleged online pseudonym “Vernon Demerest”. “It is behaviour that is completely and utterly unacceptable at Victoria Police,” Victoria Police chief commissioner Graham Ashton told reporters. Some alleged posts by Guerin, including for videos about Somali pirates and of Argentina losing to the Netherlands in the 1998 World Cup, are too racially offensive to publish. He admitted to a Melbourne radio station he had written the online comments under the same fake name, and that he was ashamed about his mother and daughters reading them.

Source: Hindustan Times February 27, 2018 03:56 UTC