'I think it's amazing. It looks like it belongs there, looks like it's been there forever. It's something that fills me with pride.' Sculpture of BLM protester Jen Reid now stands on the plinth where a statue of slave trader Edward Colston used to stand. https://www.itv.com/news/2020-07-15/sculpture-of-black-protester-installed-on-plinth-on-edward-colston-statue | ITV News

🔥After protestors tore down the statue of Edward Colston, they tossed it in the harbor where it belongs. ⁣ ⁣ Edward Colston was a monster who bought, sold, and traded Africans, human beings, and forced them into slavery until they died. Nobody who did this should be honored. It was/is terrorism. Now. Then. ⁣ ⁣ He never should’ve had a statue. ⁣ ⁣ I’m proud of the activists and organizers in Bristol, in the United Kingdom, who tore this down. ⁣ ⁣ TEAR THEM ALL DOWN. Everywhere. ⁣ ⁣ I support thi

Less than 24 hours after Bristol's Edward Colston statue was pulled down during yesterday's Black Lives Matter protest, council crew begin the clear-up. The placards will be put on display in M Shed, Marvin Rees has confirmed. https://bit.ly/2XFqPyD | ITV News West Country

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