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THE CENSORS: Police Probe Darren Grimes Over David Starkey Interview The Metropolitan Police is investigating Grimes for 'stirring up racial hatred,' after historian Dr David Starkey allegedly made some provocative comments on the British conservative commentator's podcast. In the June 30 interview during a discussion of the Black Lives Matter Movement, Starkey told Grimes that slavery was not genocide because there are "so many damn blacks." This off-hand comment provoked outrage after Grimes published the interview on his YouTube channel Reasoned UK in July. 'Woke' leftists called for Starkey to be 'cancelled.' The historian was indeed cancelled. He lost his academic positions at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and Canterbury Christ Church University. HarperCollins, cancelled plans to publish his history books. Police asked Grimes to attend a police station to be interviewed under caution. The conservative commentator is accused of a public order offence of stirring up racial hatred by publishing the interview on his podcast on July 2. Grimes in a statement said "At a time when many in our country are facing uncertainty and financial hardship, I cannot imagine a more contemptible way for the Metropolitan Police to abuse taxpayers' money and the trust of citizens then by investigating this vexatious claim." The threat of arrest, he added, has "serious repercussions for freedom of expression." The Free Speech Union (FSU), has condemned the investigation, describing the accusation against Grimes as "absurd." "On July 4, the Metropolitan Police Service was passed an allegation from Durham Police of a public order offence relating to a social media video posted online on June 30," the Scotland Yard said in a statement. "The matter is currently being investigated. No arrests.” http://www.keneci.com