Anti-racism protesters were acquitted Wednesday after being charged with throwing a statue of Edward Colston into Bristol Harbor.
Four Bristol, England, protesters were acquitted Wednesday after they argued throwing a statue of a slave trader into the city's harbor was not a crime.
On June 7, 2020, they used ropes to take the statue down and dump it into the harbor as a part of worldwide anti-racism protests following the police killing of"This is a victory for Bristol, this is a victory for racial equality and it's a victory for anybody who wants to be on the right side of history," Willoughby said.
"It is shameful that Bristol City Council did not take down the statue of slaver Edward Colston that had caused such offence to people in Bristol, and equally shameful that they then supported the prosecution of these defendants," he said. Graham, Ponsford and Willoughby were caught on closed-circuit television passing the ropes around the statue that were used to pull it down, while Skuse was accused of orchestrating a plan to roll it into the harbor.
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