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This anti-racist protest sparked in the United States is taking place in major European cities. In England, an angry protester also pulled a statue of a 17th-century slave trader and threw it into the sea.

Reporter Kim Yong-cheol reports.

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than 10,000 citizens protested against racism in downtown Bristol, southwest England.

The demonstrators pulled down the statue of Coleston and dragged him around the city to the Avon River. Bristol was the center of British slave trade in the past, and Coleston was a 17th century slave trader.

In London, protesters also wrote a protest against the statue of Winston Churchill by writing racist.

[Gloria/Spanish English teacher: I came here because I thought I should systematically end racism in the world.]

[Eliza Sharif/Madrid English teacher: I came to show solidarity about everything that is going on in America. I am from the United States.] In

Brussels, the capital of Belgium, a police force collided with protesters, and water cannons were mobilized.

Massive protests also took place in Madrid, Spain, Berlin, Germany, and Budapest, Hungary.

Participants went out into the street with hand signs such as'stop racial discrimination' and'racial discrimination is a pandemic'.

Some protesters threw stones and bottles to injure police officers and photographers, and some were arrested by the police for violent protests.