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Star
Thursday July 16, 2015 MYT 4:03:45 PM
Low Yat brawl: MCMC to investigate auxiliary cop over alleged racist tweet
KUALA LUMPUR: An auxiliary policeman who allegedly tweeted a racial slur in response to a posting on the Low Yat brawl will be investigated by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).
The officer, who works in airport security at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), had allegedly tweeted a response to student Harvinth Kesu, who wrote that the weekend incident had nothing to do with race.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said that auxiliary cop was attached to Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) and that he had recommended an investigation be carried out by the MCMC.
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Free Malaysia Today
Cop tweets racial slur about Indian community
Police officer used the “keling” slur on netizens in a tweet about the Low Yat race riots
PETALING JAYA: A screen shot of a police officer’s racially offensive tweet has been circulating on WhatsApp and other social media services. The officer in question used the racial slur “keling” which is considered derogatory towards the Indian community.
The officer concerned has the twitter handle @Konstamir90 and goes by the screen name AMIR.
Amir, who appears in police uniform in several other pictures using the same profile, tweeted, “Alaa keling tak payah laa campor” (Alaa, there is no need for keling/Indians to interfere) in a response to another user, Harvinth Kesu @harvinthskin who had earlier commented on the Low Yat Plaza race riot over the weekend.
Harvinth, who appeared to be Indian had tweeted, “Stop equating the Low Yat incident to Malays vs Chinese. Nothing to do with race. Just idiots & you’re an idiot if you can’t see that.”
Netizens, offended by Amir’s response took to the micro-blogging site to make their displeasure known.
One user, with the twitter handle @iambainz said, “you call yourself an officer? Hahahaha, it’s people like you who cause all this kinda issues,” while another user @SharwinRaj95 said, “Dude do you even understand the gist of what he is getting at?”
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In attempting to retweet AMIR’s derogatory message to IGP Khalid, a prominent Twitter user himself, FMT learnt that the police officer had “protected” his account.
FMT was however able to capture a screen shot of his message. 
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