Four people who were accused of toppling a statue of slaver Edward Colston and throwing it into a harbour in Bristol, UK, have been cleared of criminal damage.
Sage Willoughby, Rhian Graham, Milo Ponsford and Jake Skuse were charged after they were recorded vandalizing the statue and chucking it into Bristol's historic harbour, according to the BBC.
This occurred in June of 2020 during a Black Lives Matter protest. The statue has still not been replaced by the city of Bristol, and the statue of Colston now lies permanently in a museum.
The alleged vandals were met with loud cheers once their verdicts were read. Three of the four accused individuals were from Bristol, while the fourth was from the home county of Hampshire.
Sage Willoughby, who is 22, took the knee outside the Bristol Crown Court, which is a symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement. All four of these individuals are white.
One of the alleged vandals said, "...we just want to say thank you to so many people because we have never been alone in this journey."
"We have been so supported and we are such a small part of this. There were so many people that day. So many people reverberating across the world in response to it."
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