The COVID Diaries – 71 7th June
The Guardian reported today:
“Black Lives Matters protesters in Bristol have pulled down a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston. Demonstrators attached a rope to the Grade II-listed statue on Colston Avenue on Sunday before pulling it to the ground as crowds cheered. They then jumped on it and rolled it down the street to the harbour before pushing it into Bristol Harbour.
“The historian David Olusoga comparing the action to the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. However, the home secretary, Priti Patel, urged the police to respond. She told Sky News: “I think that is utterly disgraceful and that speaks to the acts of public disorder that have actually now become a distraction from the cause in which people are protesting about.”