An unauthorized statue of a Black Lives Matter protester has been erected atop the base where a monument honoring British slave trader Edward Colston once stood. UK CROWD TEARS DOWN EDWARD COLSTON STATUEColston was a 17th-century trader who made a fortune transporting enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas on Bristol-based ships. The toppling of Colston’s statue occurred during protests sparked by the death of George Floyd — but Bristol’s mayor suggested Wednesday that the new sculpture of Reid may not stay up for long. “It was not requested and permission was not given for it to be installed.”After the Colston statue was thrown in the harbor, city officials fished it out and said it would be placed in a museum, along with placards from the Black Lives Matter demonstration. The new statue, meanwhile, is called “A Surge of Power (Jen Reid)”.

Source: Fox News July 15, 2020 13:51 UTC