Black UK protester statue removed from pedestal in Bristol

BRISTOL, England (AP) — Officials in the English city of Bristol have removed a statue of a Black Lives Matter activist that was installed barely 24 hours earlier on a pedestal once occupied by a monument to a 17th-century slave trader. Artist Marc Quinn created the likeness of protester Jen Reid standing on the pedestal after demonstrators pulled down the statue of merchant Edward Colston and dumped it in Bristol’s harbor. The new statue was erected before dawn on Wednesday without