Black Lives Matter demos and protests UK, 2020-2021

[editor]

There's no way that statue is ever going back on the plinth!

 

[butchersapron]

btw I'm also for 'recontextualising' statues, except no-one ever thinks of doing it properly. Take it off the pedestal, put it in irons, hang in upside down from the feet and have someone shove cast bronze shit into its mouth, or some other regular and deliberately humiliating slave punishment. Then you can keep it. Otherwise, in the sea you go - or the river in this case.

This was done properly. Recontextualised properly. He was dumped in the water the same way his charges dumped 'slaves'.

 

[bimble]

Here’s the splosh.

 

[mx wcfc]

This news needs a playing of this...

 

[killer b]

Brilliant stuff.

 

[Badgers]

Doubt it, if I were into scrap metal and had a van I'd be straight down there.

A decent career in this economy

 

[chilango]

It's made all the hairs on my body stand on end and a huge shiver down my spine. Feeling elated.

Yeah.

I'm going to watch it properly later and savour it.

What's the name of that bunch in Bristol linked to the slave trade? Merchant something or other?

I remember trying to wreck their Ball back in 90s.

 

[cupid_stunt]

There's no way that statue is ever going back on the plinth!

If it did, I am sure it'll just get pulled down again, and repeat.

 

[TopCat]

I am hugely impressed with this action. Top stuff and long overdue.

 

[butchersapron]

Yeah.

I'm going to watch it properly later and savour it.

What's the name of that bunch in Bristol linked to the slave trade? Merchant something or other?

I remember trying to wreck their Ball back in 90s.

Merchant Venturers. Still run half the city.

 

[chilango]

Merchant Venturers. Still run half the city.

Yep. Them.

 

[chilango]

It's made all the hairs on my body stand on end and a huge shiver down my spine. Feeling elated.

Yeah. I'm proper tingling. ...and I'm a white bloke!

 

[Doctor Carrot]

Finally that long running tedious debate in Bristol has been settled! The human trafficker statue is no more. Last I saw it was being dragged by a load of people to the harbour side so he's probably gone in the drink.

 

[maomao]

Yes, I know it's the fucking Sun.

But bikes were apparently being hurled all over the show and there's pictorial evidence there.

Hero female cop thrown from horse at Black Lives Matter protest suffers horrific injuries

A FEMALE cop who crashed face-first into a set of traffic lights before being thrown from her horse during a Black Lives Matter protest suffered “nasty” injuries. The officer – on…

www.thesun.co.uk

No one's throwing a bike in that photo. They weigh twenty three kilos (over fifty lb). He's not going to throw it one handed you gullible twat.

 

[platinumsage]

I am all for reappraising heritage assets through the proper channels, but people have been trying to do that with this statue for over twenty years, and the authorities haven't even managed to authorise an additional plaque.

 

[ska invita]

gullible twat.

or feigning innocence twat

 

[gentlegreen]

I chickened out of going along because of the virus - I would have liked to have seen that - a fitting maritime end to an anachronism.

 

[Ax^]

No one's throwing a bike in that photo. They weigh twenty three kilos (over fifty lb). He's not going to throw it one handed you gullible twat.

Also the she came off on the first charge you can see people scattering as they come in

thats a police line in front of the building

 

[editor]

Scratch a Tory and the same racist bile oozes out

Robin Vickery has had the whip removed for 21 days after he reposted a message calling for BAME people – including London mayor Sadiq Khan and leading Labour MP Diane Abbott – to be deported and another comparing the reaction to the death of George Floyd with the murder of Lee Rigby.

His actions came on the same weekend as protestors gathered across the country to promote the Black Lives Matter movement.

Suffolk Tory councillor suspended for reposting racist Facebook messages

One of the best-known Conservatives in Ipswich has been suspended by his party at both the county and borough councils after reposting...

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[Supine]

Someone has updated Google maps for the Bristol statue relocation

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

www.google.com

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

That was perfect Full marks to all involved

 

[scifisam]

Scratch a Tory and the same racist bile oozes out

Suffolk Tory councillor suspended for reposting racist Facebook messages

One of the best-known Conservatives in Ipswich has been suspended by his party at both the county and borough councils after reposting...

www.eadt.co.uk

Especially since Lee Rigby's family have put out a statement asking people not to use his name to argue against these protests.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

The police didn't charge from all the footage I've seen.
If you can find me some, I'll all eyes.

Looks like a charge to me

 

[tim]

It's now in the water. Oh dear.

Don't worry the dolphins will rescue it.

 

[Brainaddict]

edit: cba

 

[editor]

This was done properly. Recontextualised properly. He was dumped in the water the same way his charges dumped 'slaves'.

For me, the M41 Reclaim The Streets protest was one of the funniest/smartest actions I've ever been on, but this certainly matches it. On point, relevant, funny and with a wonderful climax. Brilliantly done Bristol.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Looks like a charge to me

This, from that tweet - "The police charged at protestors well before there was violence. This is what caused the protest to become violent." - is incorrect, having watched the live coverage, bottles & other objects were raining down on the cops in-front of the Downing Street gates, and flares launched at them.

That's when the riot cops came out to replace the ones in standard uniforms, then the mounted police went in, you can see in that video the 'guard' had already changed outside the Downing Street gates, before the horses were used.

 

[Pickman's model]

It's wicked to mock the afflicted

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Tory London mayoral candidate (when that was still a thing) Shaun Bailey expresses mild opinion that actually it is important that people should be able to protest, and is immediately spammed for it. Wouldn't be surprised if he was dropped tbh, though that won't be obvious until we actually have a new date for a mayoral election.

 

[MickiQ]

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A decent career in this economy

Still coming round our estate even at the height of the lockdown, clearly essential workers