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    How A Police Killing In America Triggered The Toppling Of A U.K. Slave Trader Statue

    Activists' toppling of Edward Colston's statue in Bristol, U.K., is one of the latest examples in which anti-racism protests in America are reverberating across Europe.
    by Frank Langfitt Jun 09, 2020 3 minutes

    On Sunday, a group at a Black Lives Matter protest toppled the statue of Edward Colston in the English city of Bristol, rolled it through the streets and then pushed it into the green waters of the harbor where it promptly sank amid a swirl of bubbles.

    It was a dramatic fall — literally and figuratively — for a deeply divisive statue that celebrated Bristol's biggest philanthropist, who made his fortune from the slave trade. In the late 1600s, Colston led Britain'sRoyal African Company, which transported more than 80,000 enslaved people to the New

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