A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage after a statue of slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down in Bristol.
The bronze monument was toppled and then pushed into the city's harbour during a Black Lives Matter protest on 7 June.
No arrests were made at the time, but Avon and Somerset Police later released 15 images of people they wished to speak to after looking at footage of the statue being pulled down with ropes.
The statue had been in the city centre since 1895 and is one of a number of tributes to Colston in the city.
The council has since retrieved the statue from the harbour and plans to display it in a museum along with placards from the BLM protest.
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Demonstrations took place across the US and the UK last month following the killing of unarmed black man George Floyd in Minneapolis in May.
Referring to the toppling of the statue, Detective Superintendent Liz Hughes said in an appeal on 22 June: "The incident attracted worldwide attention and there's no denying it has polarisedRead More – Source
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