The Metropolitan police (MET) acted “in deference to the Black Lives Matter outfit” and attempted a “trial by Twitter,” journalist and broadcaster Darren Grimes said on Monday.
The comment followed a formal complaint filed with the MET by Luke Gittos, the solicitor representing Grimes, historian David Starkey and the Free Speech Union (FSU), over a hate crime investigation against Grimes and Starkey for “stirring up racial hatred” in a podcast while discussing “Black Lives Matter movements’ views on British history.”