It was an iconoclasm such as has only recently been seen with the fall of regimes.
An angry crowd attacks a sculpture and overthrows it.
On June 7, 2020, protesters in the English city of Bristol attack a statue of Edward Colston, throw a noose around the neck of the bronze statue, drag it from its pedestal and sink it into the water of the harbor basin.
The British government now wants to pass a law to better protect monuments from such attacks. Because Winston Churchill, as a supposed racist, was already a target of the iconoclasts, and even Lord Nelson high on his pillar above Trafalgar Square target the critics of his colonial imperialism.