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The toppled statue of Edward Colston in Bristol has been replaced in a dawn ambush by a sculpture of a Black Lives Matter activist who watched him fall.
A team of 10 people, directed by the artist Marc Quinn, erected the figure of Jen Reid at around 5am on Wednesday.
The protester was pictured standing on the plinth previously held by the 17th century slave trader with her fist raised after it was torn down and dumped in Bristol harbour in June.
Two lorry loads of activists arrived at the plinth early this morning to raise Reid’s statue in 15 minutes, using a hydraulic crane truck, before council officials could intervene.
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