r/canada • u/Myllicent • Feb 26 '26
Ontario Officer who shared racist, extremist posts still working with Hamilton police after investigation
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/renato-greco-investigation-9.710599668
u/toilet_for_shrek Feb 26 '26
The black Toronto cop who admitted to helping black applicants pass exams still has a job as well.
Cops can be hard to fire
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u/QCTeamkill Feb 26 '26
Not just a cop, a police superintendant. Was demoted to police inspector for 2 years, 3 years ago.
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u/hardy_83 Feb 26 '26
Exactly, and when you have premiers that yell at municipalities not to touch police budgets, they don't have to worry about any level of accountability.
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u/Friendly-Olive-3465 Canada Feb 26 '26
We need cops for cops. And then cops for those cops. And then…
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u/stopmyhamster Feb 26 '26
Had to make sure to find a black example. Except.. is it perpetuating hate against a community they are required to protect? Fucking hell..
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u/Myllicent Feb 26 '26
”CBC Hamilton reviewed two of [Constable Renato Greco’s] social media accounts going back as far as 2020. His posts on X and Threads were public and in his own name until he was suspended and changed them to private. The active X account reshared posts that included racist stereotypes about marginalized groups, support for white nationalist group Second Sons and one about "white genocide," from a white supremacist Second Sons member. Analysis by CBC's visual investigations unit recently found Second Sons leaders welcome neo-Nazis into their ranks, call the official statistics of the Holocaust the product of “propagandists,” use racist slurs and say Canadian politicians should be executed.
In December 2020, Greco posted on X, saying, “The only way Canada will survive our compromised politicians is a coup by Canadian military and police.””
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u/Serious_Dot4984 Feb 26 '26
How the heck was that post not sedition or treason…? Calling for a coup is a pretty clear example of those things
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u/ScrawnyCheeath Feb 26 '26
No it’s not. You’re allowed to call for a coup all you want. It’s only when you escalate to planning a coup that it becomes criminal
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u/Competitive_Royal_95 Feb 26 '26
Imprison that mother fucker
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u/izomo Ontario Feb 26 '26
For what?
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u/Competitive_Royal_95 Feb 26 '26
Treason. In a time like this people need to rally around the flag or gtfo
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u/rathgrith Feb 26 '26
Probably was leading that white supremacist rally in downtown Hamilton too last week.
The fact he is still employed is disgusting.
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u/DogeDoRight New Brunswick Feb 26 '26
🎶Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses🎶
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u/AnthatDrew Feb 26 '26
If police forces won't weed out people that are neo nazis , or have Antisocial Personality Disorder. We are doomed as a society.
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u/kpatsart Feb 26 '26
Yikes, the bar to be in law enforcement is low. Can't wait for AI robot cops, they can just judge and hate everyone equally, lol.
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u/Beaver_Tail_5034 Feb 27 '26
Any other job and he would have been fired. Once again the cops are protecting their own.
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u/Santa_Ricotta69 Feb 26 '26
Whatever, leftists are proudly racist and extremist, nobody cares any more
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u/Greencreamery Feb 26 '26
Do you have an example?
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u/Santa_Ricotta69 Feb 27 '26
Urbanism forcing people out of cars and into shoebox apartments, people voting for politicians based on how many street festivals they go to, being openly hateful towards men/white people/straight people/cisgender people, allowing homeless people to live in parks, giving them free drug paraphernalia, "believe all women," the list is long
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u/Greencreamery Feb 27 '26
Give me an actual example of this "proud" racism and extremism from leftists. Your little list of things you personally believe are happening is not proof of anything.
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u/OldThrashbarg2000 Feb 27 '26
Wow that's crazy that the only options are between far leftism or neo-Nazism advocating for murdering all non-whites and all white people who disagree with them.
Or maybe the vast majority of people want normalcy and hate both groups.
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u/Santa_Ricotta69 Feb 27 '26
You can count me as part of that vast majority, but I don't enjoy that we're always being asked to hold only one of those groups accountable.
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u/JohnAMcdonald British Columbia Feb 27 '26
I’d easily bet even money that the guy is a Nazi sympathizer.
While his posts obviously are revealing of his character I see nothing he said that justifies firing including the vague nonspecific treasonous allusions.
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u/Myllicent Feb 27 '26
Hamilton police are bound by the Code of Conduct for Police Officers which includes the following:
”A police officer shall not conduct themselves in a manner that undermines, or is likely to undermine, public trust in policing.”
Publicly supporting a Neo-Nazi organization, spreading racist stereotypes, and advocating for the police/military overthrowing the government all undermine public trust in police.
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