Three people were arrested after protesters splashed paint on statues of Egerton Ryerson and John A. Macdonald in downtown Toronto on Saturday morning, police said. Around 35 protesters surrounded the statue of Ryerson at Ryerson University, near Bond and Gould Streets, and hurled pink paint at it. A photograph posted to social media showed Black Lives Matter protesters pouring pink paint on the statue. Rodney Diverlus, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto, told the Star that protesters under the banner of Black Lives Matter were calling for the “defunding of police, and an end to white supremacy and anti-black racism. Black Lives Matter Toronto announced at around 4 p.m. that legal contact had been made with the three people detained, nearly four hours after they were arrested.

Source: thestar July 18, 2020 15:27 UTC