Banksy creates T-shirt to help statue-toppling defendants
ABC News
People are lining up in the English city of Bristol to get the latest work by elusive street artist Banksy
LONDON -- People lined up Saturday in the English city of Bristol to get the latest work by elusive street artist Banksy — a T-shirt created to help four defendants charged over the toppling of a local statue of a slave trader.
The gray shirt features the word Bristol above an empty plinth like the one on which the statue of 17th-century slave merchant Edward Colston long stood.
Anti-racism demonstrators pulled down the statue and and dumped it in Bristol harbor in June 2020 amid global protests over the police killing of a Black American man, George Floyd.
Four people have been charged with criminal damage over the statue’s felling and are due to go on trial next week.
