Prime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken out on the U.K.’s demonstrations following the death of George Floyd in police custody, warning that protesters who attack public property or the police will…
in police custody, warning that protesters who attack public property or the police will face “the full force of the law.”tore down a controversial bronze statue of 17th-Century slave trader Edward Colston
Bristol mayor Marvin Rees, Europe’s first Black city mayor, told BBC Radio Bristol on Monday morning: “I can’t and won’t pretend the statue of a slave trader in a city I was born and grew up [in] wasn’t an affront to me and people like me.
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