UK mayor says sculpture of protester on Edward Colston plinth ‘will have to be removed’

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The mayor of Bristol has said a sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester erected on the plinth where a statue of slave trader Edward Colston used to stand “will have to be removed”.

Artist Marc Quinn created the life-size black resin and steel piece of Jen Reid, from Bristol, after seeing a photo of her standing on the empty plinth following the toppling of the Colston statue.