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Statue Of Slave Trader Pulled Down And Thrown Into Harbour By Bristol Protesters by DMPaulSr: 12:51am On Jun 08, 2020
Police in Bristol are hunting a mob who toppled a 125-year-old statue of the slave trader, Edward Colston, before dumping it in the harbour during a Black Lives Matter march.
The incident came as an estimated 10,000 people gathered in the city to demonstrate against the killing in the United States in police custody of the unarmed black man, George Floyd.
After marching to the statue, which has been at the centre of a long running debate in Bristol, the protestors attached ropes to the bronze figure before pulling it from its stone pedestal.
Cheering loudly and dancing on the figure the group, many of whom were white, then dragged it to the nearby quay where it was thrown into the water.

Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, condemned the actions of the group and said such acts of vandalism were a “distraction from the cause in which people are actually protesting about”.
One demonstrator was photographed leaning on the statue's neck with his knee in an imitation of the choke hold used by US police against George Floyd last month.
But he added officers would be seeking to identify protesters who pulled down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston.
"An investigation will be carried out to identify those involved and we're already collating footage of the incident," he said.


Protestor John McAllister, 71, tore down black bin bags used to hide the statue to denounce it in front of fellow protesters, before a rope was tied around it and used to pull it down.
Mr McAllister said: "It says 'erected by the citizens of Bristol, as a memorial to one of the most virtuous and wise sons of this city'.
"The man was a slave trader. He was generous to Bristol but it was off the back of slavery and it's absolutely despicable. It's an insult to the people of Bristol."
Edward Colston was involved in the Royal African Company, a trading company that was engaged in the slave trade in the 17th century.
The company is thought to have transported around 84,000 African men, women and children in the time Colston was involved.
Around 19,000 died on their journey to the Caribbean and the Americas.

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Re: Statue Of Slave Trader Pulled Down And Thrown Into Harbour By Bristol Protesters by DMPaulSr: 9:50am On Jun 08, 2020
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Re: Statue Of Slave Trader Pulled Down And Thrown Into Harbour By Bristol Protesters by DMPaulSr: 9:52am On Jun 08, 2020
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Re: Statue Of Slave Trader Pulled Down And Thrown Into Harbour By Bristol Protesters by arantess: 10:58am On Jun 08, 2020
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Re: Statue Of Slave Trader Pulled Down And Thrown Into Harbour By Bristol Protesters by redsun(m): 11:02am On Jun 08, 2020
Having that in that city must have been very comfortable for every African that knows the history whenever they set their eyes on it. Such blatant audacity of having a statute like that in a public square could explain why the country is adamantly refusing to apologise for the evils of transatlantic slavery.

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