[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Liam-

Cardiff council are meeting for a motion to remove a statue of Thomas Picton from city hall

get out there Liam and take it down with your bare hands

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by Cherie

get out there Liam and take it down with your bare hands

It’s raining

[Redway]

Not just the statues but Liverpool’s renaming all its street names and attractions that are linked to slavery.

[Samm]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Bit ungrateful, he discovered their country after all

No he didn’t, Leif Eriksson discovered America.

Originally Posted by Cherie

Is it just the USA and UK getting rid of these statues or are they going across the board?

Belgium have removed statues.

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Samm

No he didn’t, Leif Eriksson discovered America.

True! Viking power

They didn't really do much with it though.

[arista]

[The Slim Reaper]

[LeatherTrumpet]

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by arista

Blimey .. it won’t take much to pull the the Colosseum Amphitheatre down ..


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[arista]

[arista]

[arista]

[London Mayor gets Scaffolding sprung up around
Churchill's statue at Parliament Square on Thursday evening
in anticipation of further protests at the weekend.]


Board it up

[arista]

[Scaffolders erect boarding around
the George Washington statue on Trafalgar Square, London,
in anticipation for further protests]

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by arista

[Scaffolders erect boarding around
the George Washington statue on Trafalgar Square, London,
in anticipation for further protests]

That scaffolding will just make it easier to climb up !!


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[LeatherTrumpet]

One of the four police officers charged over the death of George Floyd has been released from prison after paying a $750,000 (around £591,000) cash bail. Thomas Lane, 37, was freed from Hennepin County jail on Wednesday night, sheriff’s office records showed.


Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/11/cop-c...3/?ito=cbshare

[arista]

Originally Posted by Zizu

That scaffolding will just make it easier to climb up !!


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That's the base before boards go over it.


Example this morning
Churchill well hidden:

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

One of the four police officers charged over the death of George Floyd has been released from prison after paying a $750,000 (around £591,000) cash bail. Thomas Lane, 37, was freed from Hennepin County jail on Wednesday night, sheriff’s office records showed.


Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/11/cop-c...3/?ito=cbshare

750k is obviously chicken feed to police in the USA

[arista]

To stop the Protestors
over the weekend

[parmnion]

Originally Posted by arista

To stop the Protestors
over the weekend

Safety measures....


https://youtu.be/vmihzbwgGoI

[thesheriff443]

It’s great to hear that courts will be open through the night like in 2011 so the scum that think they can damage property and attack police in the name of racism can go straight to prison.

[Oliver_W]

It's a shame they couldn't be made from tempered glass or something so people can still see.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by arista

That's the base before boards go over it.


Example this morning
Churchill well hidden:

Mmmm that’s a nice ‘canvas’ . It’s gonna be sooooo tempting for the spray-paint artists / vandals.

I dread to think what it will look like by Monday

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[parmnion]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

750k is obviously chicken feed to police in the USA

It was a crowd fund I believe.

[Liam-]

Good, now arrest her murderers

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Liam-

Good, now arrest her murderers

It's crazy that no-knock warrants are even a thing, apart from circumstances like armed robberies etc