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Black Lives Matter organiser behind the protest which toppled Edward Colston's statue in Bristol admits fraud after £30,000 raised from donors goes missing An agreement is said to have been made that any excess funds would go to charity Changing Your Mindset Ltd - which was a youth group based in the St Pauls area of Bristol - so young people could go on a trip to Africa. The Colston statue was pushed into Bristol harbour on June 7, 2020, during protests related to the death of George Floyd in the US, and the subsequent global BLM movement. A lot of BLM activists are cut from the same cloth as their "saints" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12559507/Black-Lives-Matter-organiser-protest-Edward-Colston-Bristol-admits-fraud.html