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‘It was wrong and it was an act of criminal damage’

Kit Malthouse reacts to a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston being pulled down

The Policing Minister Kit Malthouse has told Justin Webb that it was wrong for Black Lives Matter protesters to pull down a statue of the seventeenth century slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol. Police in the city have confirmed there will be an investigation into “criminal damage” of the monument. Thousands of people attended largely peaceful demonstrations in cities across the UK at the weekend although violence in London on Sunday led to eight officers being injured and 12 people being arrested.

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