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Data specialist sacked after saying cops should use live rounds on BLM

<div class="mol-img-group floatRHS" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> </div> <noscript> <img id="i-73f3941d860d992e" website height="327" width="306" alt="Will O'Shea, 57, who was a data architecture and governance specialist in the Cabinet Office from April, lost his job after the tweet" class="blkBorder img-share" /> </noscript> </div> <p class="imageCaption">Will O'Shea, 57, who was a data architecture and governance specialist in the Cabinet Office from April, lost his job after the tweet</p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">One of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/news/dominic-cummings/index.html" id="mol-7c735140-ed45-11ea-9bd3-815eb17bee2b">Dominic Cummings</a>' 'weirdos and <a href="https://hararonline.com/?s=misfits%27">misfits'</a> was sacked after saying police should use 'live rounds' on <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/news/black-lives-matter/index.html" id="mol-7c74d7e0-ed45-11ea-9bd3-815eb17bee2b">Black Lives Matter</a> protesters, it has emerged.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Will O'Shea, 57, who was a data architecture and governance specialist in the Cabinet Office from April, lost his job after the tweet.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Colleagues found and reported the July 5 post and he was booted out of Westminster the same month.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">It was the second of Mr Cummings' intake to leave their role after making race-related comments, with Andrew Sabisky having quit <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/news/downing-street/index.html" id="mol-7c761060-ed45-11ea-9bd3-815eb17bee2b">Downing Street</a> in February.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Mr O'Shea's tweet came in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in the US when thousands of protesters were also on the streets in the UK.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He had replied to a post about Metropolitan police officers being driven out of a London housing estate, saying: 'Time to get out the live rounds.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The data specialist told a <a style="font-weight: bold;" class="class" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" website </a>reporter - posing as a recruitment agent - he was 'let go because of my tweet'.</p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> </div> <noscript> <img id="i-8bc60d50bc4fbd60" website height="736" width="634" alt="It was the second of Mr Cummings' (pictured yesterday) intake to leave their role after making race-related comment" class="blkBorder img-share" /> </noscript> </div> <p class="imageCaption">It was the second of Mr Cummings' (pictured yesterday) intake to leave their role after making race-related comment</p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">But he later told the journalist over email he was never given a reason for being sacked.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Mr O'Shea said he can see why colleagues at the Government Digital Service in the Cabinet Office found his post racist, incendiary and offensive.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The department was already facing complaints from BAME staff over alleged racism and bullying.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He said he accepted they thought he meant police should be shooting black people in London, but added it was not meant seriously.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Mr O'Shea told the reporter: 'I can see how it was taken that way, and I am sorry for that.' He added: 'I didn't say ''shoot blacks'' and that was not what I meant or wished.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">His Twitter account has since been deleted in a bid to 'get rid of any of the things I had said'.</p><div><div data-track-module="am-related_carousel^related_carousel" data-track-selector=".rotator-panels a:not([class*=external])" data-dm-rotator-rotate="false" data-track-pos="static" data-preferred-shared-network-enabled="" data-dm-rotator-auto-init="" id="p-18" class="related-carousel with-fb-or-tw news half" data-dm-rotator-active-class="active" data-dm-rotator-page-count="1.0" data-dm-social-article-auto-init="" data-dm-rotator-page-size="1"> <div class="rotator bdrcc"> <div class="rotator-title"> <h2>RELATED ARTICLES</h2> <ul class="rotator-pages link-xocc"> <li class="rotator-prev"><a href="#" data-page="prev">Previous</a></li> <li><a href="#" data-page="1">1</a></li> <li class="rotator-next"><a href="#" data-page="next">Next</a></li> </ul> </div> <ul class="rotator-panels link-bogr1 linkro-ccox"> <li> <a href="/news/article-8688907/Dominic-Cummings-moves-senior-aides-new-Nasa-style-Whitehall-hub.html"> <img website width="62" height="60" /> <span>Ground control to Major Dom! Maverick No10 chief smartens <a href="http://bestcopy.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=free&wr_id=2100">dating site sign up</a>...</span> </a> <a href="/news/article-8687663/Downing-Street-plans-new-digital-ID-cards-British-citizens.html"> <img website width="62" height="60" /> <span>Downing Street plans new digital ID cards for British...</span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <u> <div class="fb"></u><br> <br> <h2>Share this article</h2><br> <br> <div class="share"><span class="wai">Share</span></div><br> <br> </div><br> <br> <br> <br> </div> </div><p class="mol-para-with-font">The aide, who has an MBA from Manchester University and speaks French and German, was among the 'weirdos and misfits' Mr Cummings' called for in January.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The 'unusual set of people' were wanted to work in 'the frontiers of the science of prediction', 'data science, Alternative Intelligence and cognitive technologies' and 'decision-making institutions at the apex of government'.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Mr O'Shea never met the PM's chief adviser, but claimed he was interviewed by data scientist Ben Warner in what has been used as the Covid-19 press conference room.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">A government spokesman told MailOnline: 'Will O'Shea was not hired to work in No 10.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'He was employed by the Cabinet Office as an external contractor for the Government Digital Service on coronavirus.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'All standard vetting processes were carried out for a contractor role through a commercial framework.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The sacking followed Mr Sabisky's resignation in February after he made comments about forced contraception of the 'underclass' and the IQs of black people.</p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> </div> <noscript> <img id="i-6fa068b647909be" website height="416" width="634" alt="The sacking followed Mr Sabisky's (pictured) resignation in February after he made comments about forced contraception of the 'underclass' and the IQs of black people" class="blkBorder img-share" /> </noscript> </div> <p class="imageCaption">The <a href="http://dig.ccmixter.org/search?searchp=sacking">sacking</a> followed Mr Sabisky's (pictured) resignation in February after he made comments about forced contraception of the 'underclass' and the IQs of black people</p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">The government adviser suggested black Americans have a lower average IQ than whites and labelled public outcry over female genital mutilation a 'moral panic'.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Mr Sabisky also said 'women's sport is more comparable to the Paralympics than it is to men's' and reportedly advocated legally enforcing the uptake of contraception to stop unplanned pregnancies 'creating a permanent underclass'.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The PM came under growing pressure to sack the 27-year-old, who was apparently drafted in to Number 10 after Mr Cummings called for 'misfits and weirdos'.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Downing Street repeatedly refused to condemn the remarks but Mr Sabisky said he was stepping down due to 'media hysteria' and so as not to be a 'distraction'.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">He tweeted: 'Hey all, The media hysteria about my old stuff online is mad but I wanted to help HMG not be a distraction.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'Accordingly I've decided to resign as a contractor. I hope no.10 hires more ppl w/ good geopolitical forecasting track records & that media learn to stop selective quoting.'</p></div><br> <br> <!-- ad: website --><br> <br> <br> <br> <b> <div id="external-source-links" class="item"</b><br> <br> data-track-module="am-external-links^external-links"><br> <br> <span>Read more:</span><br> <br> <ul><br> <br> <li><a class="js-tl" website target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">Cummings recruit sacked after suggesting police use 'live rounds' on BLM protesters | Politics | The Guardian</a></li><br> <br> </ul><br> <br> </div><br> <br> <script type="text/javascript"><br> <br> DM.later('bundle', function()<br> <br> <u><i> DM.has('external-source-links', 'externalLinkTracker');</i></u><br> <br> );<br> <br> </script>
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