In Great Britain, mass protests against police brutality and racism also took place on Sunday. One of the essential actions took place in Bristol.
There, protesters pulled the bronze statue of local ‘hero’ Edward Colston from its pedestal and launched it at the harbour.
Colston was a seventeenth-century businessman, Member of Parliament, and philanthropist who earned much of his wealth from the slave trade.
Before his statue went down, a demonstrator put his knee on the metal neck for a moment about the death of black American George Floyd due to an unnecessary crackdown by a white cop.
Although the London Police Commissioner and the Secretary of Health had advised against it, partly due to the risk of corona contamination.
Still, tens of thousands of people gathered in the centre of the capital near the US Embassy on the Thames.
Later they moved to Downing Street and Parliament Square.
