A Metropolitan Police officer who retweeted a grossly offensive meme comparing black Hollywood actress Halle Bailey to a slave would have received a final warning had he not resigned.
PC Jonah Dusauzay also body-shamed singer Jorja Smith and likened drag queens reading stories to children in schools to paedophiles, a gross misconduct hearing heard.
His posts on Twitter, now X, were reported to bosses by colleagues on the same response team.
Dusauzay re-posted an image of Bailey’s The Little Mermaid character Ariel riding in a horse-drawn carriage with Prince Eric, played by white actor Jonah Hauer-King,
Comparing the actors in Disney’s live-action remake to all-white ones in the 1989 original, it was captioned “She look like he just bought her from the auction”.
Dusauzay, 28, claims he did not notice or endorse views of another Twitter user who added the comment “What a downgrade” to the tweet.
Grammy-nominated songwriter Smith, 28, spoke about being trolled on social media because of her weight gain after Little Things became a UK top 20 hit in 2023.
Using his anonymous account, Dusauzay suggested the star “is still fine”, adding: “I go through phases of being a fat bastard too.
“Nothing a couple months in the gym won’t fix.”
Jumping into the national debate in 2020 about Drag Queen Story Hour performances in primary schools, the officer wrote: “A grown man has no business doing drag shows for kids. Nonce behaviour.”
Dusauzay added: “What kid wants to watch that? When I was a kid I wanted to see Barney [the American cartoon character] or Spider-Man, not that.”
He also posted a comment about “retards” while off-duty, retweeted one with the highly offensive N-word and another saying “Germany is gay” in response a clip of the country’s Eurovision Song Contest entrant with a rainbow Pride flag.
Politics graduate Dusauzay, who is of mixed St Lucian heritage, denied being racist.
But admitted the reposts - including one about Bailey - “could be seen as offensive”.
He read out a prepared statement expressing his sorrow and remorse.
However, Commander Katie Lilburn, chairing the disciplinary panel, said these were “in fact bogus attempts to try to explain away conduct that he always knew to be improper”.
His one about Bailey would have been viewed as upsetting and derogatory to most Londoners, especially black people.
She said right-minded members of the public could equate his remarks about drag artists with false suggestions they were involved in paedophilic behaviour.
Such “offensive and inflammatory” behaviour, she said, “created a risk of disorder or acts of violence” against marginalised people.
Commander Lilburn added: “His conduct in reposting these images, without any commentary or attempt to call out their content, merely served to enlarge their publication.”
Dusauzay’s acts had been “all the more reprehensible when committed by a serving police officer from whom higher standards are and must be expected”, she found.
He was found to have breached standards of professional behaviour relating to authority, respect, courtesy, equality, diversity and discreditable conduct to a gross misconduct level.
Dusauzay - who served three years with an unblemished record - resigned on May 22 but would have got a final written warning for five years.
