by Kurt Zindulka
The statue honouring Sir Winston Churchill and Britain’s national war memorial were included in a secret list of “contentious statues” by London’s Metropolitan Police in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, a report has revealed.
A report from the Policy Exchange think tank, which drew on freedom of information requests, has found that in response to radical protest movements such as the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, Scotland Yard has compiled a list of public monuments and statues deemed to be “contentious” and therefore possible flashpoints for violence and vandalism.
Among the monuments was the statue of British wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill which stands in Parliament Square. The unearthed secret police report said that Churchill’s statue was included due to his support of the British Empire.
The police report also went on to cite questionably historic accounts often put forward by leftist academics as evidence of his supposed racism, such as the claim that he orchestrated the 1943-44 Bengal famine, despite evidence pointing to the wartime leader sending food to the region but was limited by realities of the Second World War.