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'White Lives Matter' banners hung on Glasgow statues as 'racist' group slammed

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A ' racist ' group has sparked fury after hanging banners reading 'White Lives Matter' over landmarks in Glasgow. The disturbing pickets were hung up on statues in city centre at 9am on Sunday, July 31.

Pictures show the Queen Victoria and William Gladstone monuments in George Square and the Duke of Wellington on Ingram Street were among the sculptures to be targeted.

It is understood that the pickets were erected as a counter-response to the Black Lives Matter movement - a worldwide campaign for racial equality.

Other images shared on social media show a group of around eight people standing outside the Gallery of Modern Art with a man in sunglasses holding up one of the signs.

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