Black Lives Matter protesters in the UK have toppled a statue of a 17th-century slave trader into a harbour.Protesters appear to kneel on the neck of the statue, recalling the death of George FloydPM Boris Johnson says those responsible for "thuggery" and attacks on police will be "held to account"
The Colston statue was removed from the avenue bearing the merchant's name and eventually rolled into the city's harbour.Colston, who was born in 1636, has been a controversial figure in Bristol. According to the BBC, he also served as an MP, donated to churches and hospitals and founded homeless shelters and a school.Britain formally abolished the slave trade in 1807.Violence a 'betrayal of the cause', PM says
Pauline Nandoo, 60, said she had been protesting about racism since the 1970s and the images of violence at the end of Saturday's protest had not deterred her.
BLMUK What does pushing centuries old statue into River proveJust a bunch of undisciplined ‘Hooligans’? Lost any Cred by this action!!
this was bloody brilliant
Morons
Careful now, might give the people here some ideas 🤫
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bprophetable Christoper Columbus generated his wealth from the slave trade also.
All lives matter really! Depends who is in control of whose life matters. We all know the pecking order. The lives most at risk today are the old and their lives don’t seem to matter. If you are old, black, poor and/or disabled you are at the bottom and so it goes. Lives matter!
Worth mentioning police let them do it so people could exert their right to protest. How would Australian police if reacted? Probably with a taser and capsicum spray as they did over the weekend
No, it tripped.
It simply beggars belief that this statue was still standing in 2020. I'm often torn on the issue of removing statues, but if ever there was one to be torn down and unceremoniously dumped, it's got to be this one. A slave trader for heaven's sake!
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Shame he didn't have a meltdown instead of a dunking!
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Extremely misguided folk who fail too acknowledge that history records not only the good but the bad and unpleasant as well. 21st century human trafficking makes this man look like a saint. To deny history is to repeat it.
Why the hell was it a statue in the first place? Ffs!!!
It is where it belongs
It’s not ironic that he helped rehome people in the UK when he had earlier helped rehome a lot of Africans to the Caribbean/Americas.
Looks eerily similar to videos of Nazi's burning books so that people don't learn about history so they don't repeat the same mistakes as it doesn't follow their narrative.
If it's left there to get buried in mud, it will be so well preserved, in about 1000 years someone might find it and think he was someone great and he'll go on display again.
idiots...
Good! Imagine walking through your city seeing statues of Hitler. We all know about him but nobody is commemorating him with a statues in a city. So good! It’s about time.
Leftist terrorists destroy western heritage.
Fake news! The stair tripped and fell.
Hordes of ignorant hooligans just provoking vile chaos.
History in the making, just like the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statues by Iraqis after Saddam was disposed.
According to the wiki page he never wanted a monument in the first place . It said he wanted a low key death .
Should have beheaded, quartered and then thrown the remains in the water. A just act for a man who traded in human beings. Well done to all involved.
stillawake
Shame it wasn’t UK population tips Boris Johnson into the harbour 👍🏼
Protesting works. BlackLivesMatter
Was this London lol more things to worry about than statues so silly now where will drunk Londoners put the traffic cones!
Wonder if Townsville with will follow suit with their blackbirder
Well done England.
Good. Now let’s rid Gippsland of all the monuments to the murderous bastard Angus McMillan.
It’s a new dawn. It’s a beautiful sight.
A huge number of extremely wealthy families within the so-called British aristocracy can trace their fortunes back to the slave trade. They should all be firmly encouraged to be truthful and somehow make amends.
Why the bloody hell did such a statue exist? You can't deny history including the ugly bits, we need to learn about them, in order to avoid repeating the ugly bits. But to give such a person, 'recognition'with a statue, it's disgraceful.
ha ha, slaver goes splish splash
The crime here is that a statue was made and was allowed to stand there for so long.
Many people it seems want to erase history and re start at the year 2000. What will historians teach, instead of destroying part of your history you could have painted a nice rainbow on it.
Looking at the history of the Royal Africa Company (it seems like there are a whole lot more statues to go: King Charles II, King James II, philosopher John Locke, diarist Samuel Pepys etc...
This revolting statue should have already been destroyed. Bristol council why wasn’t it? I would however like to learn more about this man. Did he have a change of heart later in life? Is that why he was such a philanthropist?
Just wondering, where would the people that did this be today and how would they be living if their ancestors where not brought the England by this man ?
Bravo
Civil war have started European Vs immigrants to Europe
And what did that achieve morons.
What is so easy for people in other countries to come together on common ground is almost impossible here.
ABC backs cultural vandalism.
Good for them for removing a statue of a Slave trader .
kerrymcnasty He tripped! We all saw it!
Barbarism.
Leftards next assignment …
...and all this from a peaceful protest!
It is an indictment on Bristol that this statue was still standing in 2020.
'19,000 Black bodies thrown overboard into the sea by that man and you’re worried about his likeness being thrown into a dock?' - FlorenceHRS BlackLivesMatter
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