British police said they had arrested a man over the toppling of a statue of a 17th Century slave trader last month, an incident which sparked a major debate about Britain’s imperial past. Anti-racism protesters demonstrating in the port city of Bristol in western England in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in the United States pulled down the statue of Edward Colston and threw it into the harbour. “A 24-year-old man was … arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and has since been released under investigation,” Avon and Somerset Police said in a statement.
