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In Pictures: Standing up and taking the knee as anti-racism protests continue

By: PA News

Published: 13:42, 07 June 2020

Updated: 19:50, 07 June 2020

Anti-racism protests have taken place across the UK amid continued anger about the treatment of black people following the death of George Floyd at the hands of US police.

Black Lives Matter demonstrations were held at College Green in Bristol and outside the US Embassy in London, at the same time as a clean-up began after Saturday’s protests.

There were also people out in force in Edinburgh, Manchester and Glasgow, despite warnings about the dangers of mass gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic.

Bristol

Protesters pull down a statue of Edward Colston, a figure connected with slavery, in Bristol (Ben Birchall/PA)
Protesters then throw the statue into Bristol harbour (Ben Birchall/PA)
(Ben Birchall/PA)
(Ben Birchall/PA)
(Ben Birchall/PA)
(Ben Birchall/PA)
(Ben Birchall/PA)

London

A statue of Winston Churchill was vandalised (Aaron Chown/PA)
Rapper Stormzy was among those demonstrating (Helen William/PA)
(Gareth Fuller/PA)
(Stefan Rousseau/PA)
(Yui Mok/PA)
(Yui Mok/PA)
(Yui Mok/PA)

Holyrood Park, Edinburgh

Singer Lewis Capaldi joined a protest rally in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh (Andrew Milligan/PA)
(Andrew Milligan/PA)
(Andrew Milligan/PA)
(Andrew Milligan/PA)
(Andrew Milligan/PA)

Manchester

(Danny Lawson/PA)
(Danny Lawson/PA)
People take a knee during a Black Lives Matter protest rally in Manchester, in memory of George Floyd who was killed on May 25 while in police custody in the US city of Minneapolis.

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