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Mesbah said Friday that he made jokes in bad taste and comments out of frustration and anger, but that they were not "representative" of how he has conducted investigations.
He said he went above and beyond on numerous files involving domestic violence, sexual assaults and child abuse, and he hopes his policing is taken into account in consideration of his case.
Mesbah said he didn't speak English when he arrived in Canada from Iran, and wasn't "alert to" the level of vulgarity conveyed by a four-letter term he used, but now that he is aware, he'll "never use it again" in his life.
RCMP conduct authority lawyer John MacLaughlan said one message authored by Mesbah referred to a complainant as "garbage" after a domestic violence call where the alleged victim was unco-operative.