The toppled statue will now be placed in a local museum alongside placards from the Black Lives Matter demonstration.
Bristol officials have fished out of its city harbour a statue of slave trader Edward Colston that was thrown into the water duringThe City Council posted a video clip on Twitter of the controversial bronze monument being hauled out of the water on Thursday morning.
The bronze memorial to the 17th Century figure stood in the city centre since 1895 and had been the subject of numerous petitions to have it torn down. Speaking on ITV’s Peston on Wednesday, the Labour MP said people decided to take action over the memorial because they felt their voices on racial issues were not being heard.‘Because for 20 years, protesters and campaigners had used every democratic lever at their disposal, petitions, meetings, protests, trying to get elected politicians to act, and they couldn’t reach a consensus and they couldn’t get anything done.
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