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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Jess Glass

Toppling Colston statue ‘unacceptable’ form of political debate, court told

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Toppling a statue of slave trader Edward Colston was an “unacceptable way to engage in political debate”, the Court of Appeal has been told.

The bronze memorial to the 17th-century slave merchant was pulled down during a Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol on June 7 2020, before being rolled into the water.

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