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Although the anti-Colston movement has been gaining considerable momentum, there is no certainty - actually quite a bit of doubt - that the majority of Bristolians would have supported taking down the statue. As some idiot has now got this thread into the bear pit I'm not going to hang around...

Members of the public pulled it down, not the public - there is a difference!

It wasn't a case of the prosecution not proving their case. The statue was public property, it was pulled down and damaged, it was rolled in to the harbour and the defendants didn't dispute the fact that they did it. They claimed it was justified, and the jury decided to make what was...

No idea if the judge is 'woke' or not (but being that they are a judge I'd tend to assume probably not) but I do wonder at some people seemingly unaware that it is the jury that decides guilt or innocence, not the judge. :jester: