Four people have been charged with criminal damage over the toppling of thestatue of Edward Colston in Bristol in June. During a Black Lives Matter protest in Juine a large crowd of people gathered around the statue of Edward Colston, a notorious slave trader.
Using ropes the demonstrators pulled Colston down and rolled him into the water, to great cheers from onlookers. For many years before the statue was taken off its plinth campaigners in Bristol and further afield have been calling for it to be removed.
Colston was a member of the Royal African Company, which transported about 80,000 men, women and children from Africa to the Americas.
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