Bristol Removes Black Lives Matter Statue

Contractors remove the statue "A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) 2020" by artist Marc Quinn, which had been installed on the site of the fallen statue of the slave trader Edward Colston, in Bristol, England, on July 16, 2020. Ben Birchall/PA via AP

Bristol City in southwest England removed a statue of Black Lives Matter protester Jen Reid on Thursday morning, after it was erected a day earlier.

The city council wrote on Twitter that the statue “will be held at our museum for the artist to collect or donate to our collection.”