Yesterday, in my adopted city of Bristol, four Black Lives Matter protesters were cleared over toppling of Edward Colston statue:
Rhian Graham, Milo Ponsford, Sage Willoughby and Jake Skuse were found not guilty over act of public dissent during Bristol protest.
In closing statements following the nine-day trial, the defence had urged jurors to “be on the right side of history”, saying the statue, was so indecent and potentially abusive that it constituted a crime.
It stood over the city for 125 years...
More on the history that led Bristol to this unlikely trial very soon, in a long feature article I've been working on since August...
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