Edward Colston was a businessman who became rich in the slave trade during the 17th century. A statue of him in Bristol has been a source of controversy for many years and at an anti-racial demonstration on Sunday the statue was torn down. It was pulled through the city to the port, where it was thrown into the water.

Proposals on what should stand on the empty pedestal where the statue previously stood have begun to emerge and now the anonymous Bristol artist Banksy suggests that the event be celebrated with a monument that shows when the statue was demolished.

Shares sketch on Instagram

"Here is an idea that makes both those who do not have the Colston statue, and those who do not miss the happy," he writes on his Instagram account and also shares a sketch of what the monument might look like.

“We pull him up out of the water, put him back on the pedestal, tie a cable around his neck and order some human-sized bronze statues depicting protesters pulling him down. All happy. A famous day is celebrated. ”

Another campaign calls for Colston's statue to be replaced with a statue honoring Paul Stephenson, a man who led Bristol's boycott of buses when a company refused to hire black drivers and conductors, NME writes.