The woman whose salute on top of the Colston plinth minutes after it was toppled became a controversial statue itself has marked the third anniversary of that moment by launching a new children’s picture book called ‘A Hero Like Me’.
Jen Reid became something of a symbol of the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston on June 7, 2020, when she briefly stood atop the empty plinth and made a Black Power pose.
Pictures of that moment went around the world, and artist Marc Quinn created a sculpture of it which was then placed on top of the empty plinth, before it was removed less than 24 hours later on the orders of Mayor Marvin Rees.
