Statue of BLM protester removed after one day

A sculpture of Black Lives Matter protester Jen Reid was abruptly removed. Bristol City Council said no permission for its installation had been given, and it would be stored until the artist Marc Quinn who created it came to collect it. The statue had only been installed one day prior.

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[Mikey-mqfw]

Put up a statue of Socrates. Everybody loves Socrates.

[Tommy-opyh]

pov: you immediately scroll to the comments to find a flame war and it's just shitposting

[broonsquad]

They aren't protestors, they were rioters

[JamesRusselltheLoveMuscle]

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
― George Orwell, 1984

[make]

Some people just think they can do everything they want under the "black lives matter" quote.

[bignumbers]

Just put a Jenga tower there. Nobody will want to be the one who knocks it down

[slavaliss.]

Destroying property and stealing everything that is not attached to the floor is NOT a protest, it simply reflects their personal nature and desires.

[Drak_From_The_Healer_Tribe]

Put up a statue of a dragon, dragons are cool.

[renovo]

Put up a statue of a great English person, MR.BEAN.

[jaydeleon]

So...this person didn't do anything, like at all, and a statue was made of her? why not someone who actually did something for Black lives.

[harnikovna]

"A man has fallen into the river"

[sizsean]

I thought those types hated statues anyway. It's almost like it was never about statues at all.

[jordanireland]

put a statue of me up there, im a nice guy

[cpsclan]

The took statues down
Not just racist ones
Ones that they didn’t even understand

[Strange]

those people are nothing but a bunch of arrogant entitled brats

[newb]

Put up a statue of oxygen, nobody can live without it.

[Legogreens]

Put up a statue of Micheal Jackson, no one will be able to beat it

[aussiepride]

Why was a statue celebrating a terrorist organisation even constructed

[merlingeikie]

Someone said they had a dream..."where folks would be judged on their character, not skin colour"....
BLM trashed that dream.
🇦🇺

[all_natural]

Spray painting "PRICK" on a statue is quite possibly the most British response ever.