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Matter protest the tearing down of a slaver statue in Bristol and you ask us has

Labour picked its last two leaders in the wrong order. So we're recording after a weekend of Black Lives Matter protests across the UK to reflect what's been happening in the US.

And now really we're on to the sort of day four of the UK reactions where the debate rages on about whether or not it was right to topala statue

of a slave trader in Bristol and the nature of some of the protests in London as well.

Alver I think you went to the protest didn't you?

What was the atmosphere like and how did you find it?

It was very emotional.

I think I'm going to sound very tired on this podcast just

because I've been really really upset by how this has been covered and how I

don't think that the experience of people protesting has been really as all reflected in any of the coverage because it I mean it obviously you know there were some violent incidents which have been widely reported at the end and the toppling of that statue has been making headlines but you know there were hundreds of thousands of people there all day or from two o'clock and

sort of all those incidents happened around 6 to 7 PM like much later on when most people had gone home.

It was remarkably moving, you know, these are people who are ultimately being you know prepared to risk

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