Boris Johnson Speaks Out on U.K. Protests After Slave Trader Statue Thrown in River
Manori Ravindran International EditorPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken out on the U.K.’s demonstrations following the death of George Floyd in police custody, warning that protesters who attack public property or the police will face “the full force of the law.”Johnson’s speech on Monday came a day after anti-racism protesters in Bristol tore down a controversial bronze statue of 17th-Century slave trader Edward Colston, rolled it through the streets and tossed it into the River Avon — an incident that has re-ignited the country’s contemplation of its own dark history against a week of Black Lives Matter protests.Bristol mayor Marvin Rees, Europe’s first Black city mayor, told BBC Radio Bristol on Monday morning: “I can’t and won’t