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Paul Musgrave @profmusgrave Jun 7Protesters Say Statue Tripped, Fell Into Water
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Link to tweet
Bristol George Floyd protest: Slave Trader statue toppled
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/08/edward-colston-statue-history-slave-trader-bristol-protest
Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)Moving right along.
rurallib
(62,465 posts)good way to start the day.
onethatcares
(16,192 posts)Alex4Martinez
(2,198 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Hav
(5,969 posts)before jumping to conclusions. That statue wasn't a saint.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)FakeNoose
(32,823 posts)... and it keeps growing too. Checkout the Twitter thread!
crickets
(25,987 posts)all of the amazing videos. Way to go, Bristol!
Ford_Prefect
(7,925 posts)Hope y'all have yo water wings handy, boys. The Potomac is kinda cold this time of year.
Submariner
(12,511 posts)would be a good start to getting a conversation going about finally chipping that racist trash off that giant boulder.
Ford_Prefect
(7,925 posts)A good dunking is the least they deserve, assuming they can swim that is...
mopinko
(70,268 posts)a big fire might just crack that stone.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Better to melt them down and make something useful, such as MLK statues.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)out there daily, some with no masks......
😩
alfredo
(60,077 posts)Northof American
(26 posts)Funny as Hell nonetheless! Durec.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,496 posts)KY...........
IronLionZion
(45,563 posts)It was self inflicted so really it was a statue suicide. The people nearby were just doing their jobs to protect and serve.
mysteryowl
(7,398 posts)malaise
(269,219 posts)That was one hell of a trip
Locrian
(4,522 posts)nilram
(2,894 posts)Granny M
(1,395 posts)I'm sure that's exactly what happened.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,026 posts)quickly.
Couldn't be helped.
Not our fault.
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)H2O Man
(73,637 posts)Shell_Seas
(3,336 posts)barbtries
(28,813 posts)samsingh
(17,601 posts)ellie
(6,929 posts)Thanks! Oh, and fuck Edward Colston
burrowowl
(17,653 posts)niyad
(113,612 posts)ecstatic
(32,745 posts)It's time for every statue celebrating the slave trade to be torn down.
barbtries
(28,813 posts)Link to tweet
Susan Collins reported to be Deeply Disturbed; Doctors standing by, lest she become Profoundly Disappointed.
Link to tweet
Look, Id need to see the video of what happened before the incident, but I heard the statue was told to move because of the curfew and refused, so theres that...
DashOneBravo
(2,679 posts)BComplex
(8,073 posts)Radio Free Amanda 余美娜
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FWIW Ive noticed that protesters have done a much better job distributing masks and hand sanitizer in the past week than the government has in five months
UTUSN
(70,762 posts)Over the past couple of years when DUers post a BOROWITZ title in the subject line without attribution there, some preposterous premise about SHITLER, something too good to be true, I've gotten to be able to spot BOROWITZ before opening the O.P.
Lately, I've fallen for the trap, not spotting BOROWITZ a couple of times.
This O.P. title is the first time I thought it was BOROWITZ when it wasn't.
Aristus
(66,478 posts)Let's see if he had marijuana in his system or disciplinary problems in school. Then we'll consider it justified.
BrightKnight
(3,567 posts)They should erect a plaque commemorating the righteous citizens that put his statue where it belongs.
SunSeeker
(51,745 posts)Hekate
(90,865 posts)He just tripped.
Hekate
(90,865 posts)Recommend the entire article at link.
JPPaverage
(512 posts)Imagine tripping while just standing there.
bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)have a nasty habit of tripping and falling.
How unfortunate.
gristy
(10,667 posts)last paragraph:
And I must say that the photo in the OP is just beyond amazing. One for the history books.