British Protestors Who Toppled Edward Colston Statue Cleared of Criminal Damage Charges

A court in Bristol, England, found four protestors not guilty of criminal damage after they took part in the toppling of a monument to a slave trader during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020. Photographs of the action, which involved tossing the statue into a nearby harbor, became some of the most iconic images of the protests spurred by the murder of George Floyd in June of that year, and the case had been closely watched in the U.K.
The four protestors—Rhian Graham, Jake Skuse, Sage W