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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
(90,766 posts)Moving right along.
rurallib
(62,415 posts)good way to start the day.
onethatcares
(16,168 posts)Alex4Martinez
(2,193 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)Hav
(5,969 posts)before jumping to conclusions. That statue wasn't a saint.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)... and it keeps growing too. Checkout the Twitter thread!
crickets
(25,979 posts)all of the amazing videos. Way to go, Bristol!
Ford_Prefect
(7,897 posts)Hope y'all have yo water wings handy, boys. The Potomac is kinda cold this time of year.
Submariner
(12,504 posts)would be a good start to getting a conversation going about finally chipping that racist trash off that giant boulder.
Ford_Prefect
(7,897 posts)A good dunking is the least they deserve, assuming they can swim that is...
mopinko
(70,103 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
(60,071 posts)Northof American
(26 posts)Funny as Hell nonetheless! Durec.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,491 posts)KY...........
IronLionZion
(45,442 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
(7,390 posts)malaise
(268,997 posts)That was one hell of a trip
Locrian
(4,522 posts)nilram
(2,888 posts)Granny M
(1,395 posts)I'm sure that's exactly what happened.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)quickly.
Couldn't be helped.
Not our fault.
dalton99a
(81,486 posts)H2O Man
(73,537 posts)Shell_Seas
(3,333 posts)barbtries
(28,794 posts)samsingh
(17,598 posts)ellie
(6,929 posts)Thanks! Oh, and fuck Edward Colston
burrowowl
(17,641 posts)niyad
(113,303 posts)ecstatic
(32,704 posts)It's time for every statue celebrating the slave trade to be torn down.
barbtries
(28,794 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
(8,051 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
(70,691 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
(66,352 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
(51,554 posts)Hekate
(90,683 posts)He just tripped.
Hekate
(90,683 posts)Recommend the entire article at link.
JPPaverage
(508 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.