An RCMP adjudicator has found three B.C. constables failed to treat people with respect and courtesy when they posted racist, sexist and homophobic comments in a group chat with other officers and on police computer terminals.

Louise Morel found Coquitlam constables Mersad Mesbah, Ian Solven and Philip Dick violated the RCMP code of conduct and displayed discreditable conduct by posting the comments — but dismissed other allegations related to workplace harassment.

Lawyers will meet next week to discuss next steps, which could include the officers being dismissed.

Morel says she's confident a reasonable person in society would find the comments not only discourteous and disrespectful, but also discreditable, and that posting them in chats "could reasonably be inferred" to decrease publi

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