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Black Lives Matter protesters destroy 100-year-old statue honoring slave trader in England (video)

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Black Lives Matter protesters destroy 100-year-old statue honoring slave trader in England (video)

Protesters championing the Black Lives Matter movement have destroyed a 100-year-old statue honoring a slave trader in England.

The statue which was located in Bristol was that of Edward Colston who was a merchant slave trader.

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The Black Lives Matter started as a protest in the United States of America (USA) due to the murder of George Floyd a black man at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis.

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The movement of Black Lives Matter is now a worldwide voice and the statue of Colton in Bristol has been there since 1985 honoring him for trading 84,000 African men, women, and children to the Caribbean and North America.

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The protesters dragged the statue with a rope and threw it into River Avon where it sank.

https://twitter.com/SteveHyndside/status/1269632167665172480?s=20

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