By JO KEARNEY and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BRISTOL, England (AP) — Officials in the English city of Bristol on Thursday removed a statue of a Black Lives Matter activist that was installed on a pedestal once occupied by a monument to a 17th-century slave trader. Artist Marc Quinn created the resin and steel likeness of Jen Reid, a protester photographed standing on the pedestal after demonstrators pulled down the statue of Edward Colston and dumped it in Bristol's harbor on June 7. It was erected before dawn on Wednesday without the approval of city authorities, but 24 hours later […]

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