Merseyside Police were unable to take action against the Instagram users who racially abused Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold and Naby Keita after they were found to be based outside of the UK.
Monkey emojis were sent to both players on April 6 following Liverpool's Champions League defeat at Real Madrid.
The abusive comments were removed by Instagram and reported to the police.
Merseyside Police told Sky Sports News they have closed their investigation because all the offending users were traced outside of the UK.
A spokesman for the force said: "Following a full investigation, all the offenders were identified from their social media accounts but all were based abroad so no further action was therefore taken."
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amede4real
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becuase its a fuckin animal are u dumb
No I am not dumb. I am talking about what this animal signifies in relation to racism. If this animal offends so many people, then I see no reason why it should be included in social media chats when it can be easily used as an instrument to racially abuse people. Hope you understand my point now?
Acerazali
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Trent isn't black his parent are mix black and white
Muocemoy
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So they should tell us which Liverpool player they won’t racist against almost 80 of Liverpool squad are either black or mixed -race
Sihdeinptz
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that's why the kick it out slogan is toothless. All footie governing bodies are failures in their attempts to stamp out racism contrary to what they say.
WaniGeorge
2
TEAM NO FEAR!!! There are both Black and White monkeys.
bigchelseafan2005
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Why was monkey emojis created in the first place
becuase its a fuckin animal are u dumb
rekbemnopt
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Racism need to stop 🛑 The person use or say such a thing that Can be use as racist needs to be punished We are all the same Say no to racism
Ufotson
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After reading that someone actually hates Trent Alexander -Arnold
amede4real
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Why was monkey emojis created in the first place
Anthovagasta
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The suspect is reading this comment at this present time.