'It looks like it belongs there.' Black Lives Matter supporter Jen Reid says she's 'filled with pride' after she was the inspiration for a sculpture that now sits on the empty plinth where a slave trader's statue once stood. More here:
A sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester has been erected in secret on the same Bristol plinth from where the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was toppled last month.
march after the statue of Colston was toppled, dragged to the city harbour and dumped into the water.
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