UK officer cleared of breaking law over George Floyd meme

Sgt Geraint Jones shared grossly offensive' meme to Devon police colleagues as joke, rules judge

A Devon police sergeant who sent colleagues a disgusting and grossly offensive" doctored image of George Floyd's arrest has been cleared by a judge of breaking the law after she accepted it was sent as a joke.

Geraint Jones, 47, a custody sergeant in Torquay, shared the meme with colleagues at Devon and Cornwall police less than a week after Floyd's death in May last year.