RICHMOND - An RCMP member stationed at the Coquitlam, B.C., detachment says he regrets making "stupid" and "ugly" comments in group chats with other officers that included stereotypes about Asian drivers, slurs about gay people and inappropriate remarks about Crown prosecutors.

An RCMP code-of-conduct hearing being held at a hotel in Richmond, B.C., continued Wednesday, with Const. Philip Dick being questioned by his lawyer Anita Atwal about his reasoning for comments made over police data terminals and in an encrypted group chat.

Dick says the term "goldfish" was used to describe poor drivers who got into accidents after driving carelessly, and it "morphed" into a nickname for Asian people, who in his experience were involved in a "high percentage of" collisions.

He says the term wasn'

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