A British Columbia RCMP officer’s lawyer says her client admits some messages he sent over police mobile data terminals breached the force’s code of conduct, but the investigation into him and fellow officers was unfair and biased.

Closing submissions are underway in the misconduct case that alleges racist, sexist and discriminatory comments were made in group chats and on police computer terminals by Coquitlam constables Ian Solven, Mersad Mesbah and Philip Dick.

They face possible dismissal for discreditable conduct over comments that included racial and homophobic slurs and other derogatory comments about fellow officers and members of the public.

Dick’s lawyer Anita Atwal says the investigator assigned to look into the messages was engaged in a “witch hunt” against her client, and h

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