LONDON - Ua huki ʻia kahi kiʻi o kahi mea kūʻai kauā o ka makahiki 17 ma ke kūlanakauhale hema o Beretania o Bristol e ka poʻe kūʻē "Black Lives Matter" i ka Lāpule.

Ua hōʻike ʻia nā kiʻi kiʻi ma ka uia pūnaewele i nā mea hōʻike e haehae ana i ke kiʻi o Edward Colston mai kona plinth i ka wā kūʻē i ke kikowaena o ke kūlanakauhale. Ma kekahi wikiō ma hope mai, ua ʻike ʻia ka poʻe kūʻē i ka hoʻolei ʻana iā ia i loko o ka muliwai ʻo Avon.

ʻO ke kiʻi keleawe o Colston, ka mea i hana no ka Royal African Company a ma hope i lawelawe ʻia ma ke ʻano he Tory MP no Bristol, ua kū i ke kikowaena o ke kūlanakauhale mai ka makahiki 1895, a ua lilo ia i kumu o ka hoʻopaʻapaʻa i nā makahiki i hala iho nei ma hope o ka hoʻopaʻapaʻa ʻana o ka poʻe hoʻolaha ʻaʻole pono ʻo ia e hoʻolaha i ka lehulehu. ʻike ʻia e ke kūlanakauhale.

Ua haʻi aku ʻo Protester John McAllister, 71, i ka pāpāho kūloko: “He kanaka kālepa kauā. Ua lokomaikaʻi ʻo ia iā Bristol akā aia ma ke kua o ke kauā a he mea hoʻowahāwahā loa ia. He mea hōʻino i ka poʻe o Bristol.

Ua ʻōlelo ka luna mākaʻi kūloko ʻo Andy Bennett ma kahi o 10,000 poʻe i hele i ka hōʻike Black Lives Matter ma Bristol a ua hana ka hapa nui "me ka maluhia". Eia naʻe, "he pūʻulu liʻiliʻi o ka poʻe i hana maopopo i ka hana hewa i ka huki ʻana i kahi kiʻi ma kahi o Bristol Harbourside," wahi āna.

Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Bennett e hana ʻia kahi hoʻokolokolo e ʻike ai i ka poʻe i pili.

Ma ka Lāpule, ua hui pū nā ʻumi tausani o ka poʻe i ka lā ʻelua o nā kūʻē kūʻē i ka racism ma nā kūlanakauhale Pelekane, ʻo Lākana, Manchester, Cardiff, Leicester a me Sheffield.

Ua ʻākoakoa nā tausani o ka poʻe ma Lākana, ʻo ka hapa nui e hāʻawi i nā uhi maka a me nā mea he nui me nā lima lima, ua hōʻike ʻo BBC.

I loko o kekahi o nā kūʻē i hana ʻia ma waho o ka ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa ma waena o Lākana, hāʻule ka poʻe kūʻē i kahi kuli a hāpai i ko lākou mau lima i ka lewa ma waena o nā oli o ka "silence is violence" a "ʻaʻole hewa ke kala," wahi a ka hōʻike.

Ma nā hōʻike ʻē aʻe, ua paʻa kekahi mau mea kūʻē i nā hōʻailona e pili ana i ka coronavirus, me ka mea i heluhelu ʻia: "Aia kahi maʻi ma mua o COVID-19 a ua kapa ʻia ʻo racism." Ua kukuli ka poʻe kūʻē i ka leo hoʻokahi minute ma mua o ke oli ʻana "ʻaʻohe pono, ʻaʻohe maluhia" a "ʻeleʻele ola nui," wahi a BBC.

ʻO nā kūʻē ma Beretania kekahi ʻāpana o ka nalu nui o nā hōʻikeʻike honua i hoʻāla ʻia e nā mākaʻi pepehi ʻana iā George Floyd, he ʻAmelika ʻAmelika ʻole.

Ua make ʻo Floyd, 46, i ka lā 25 o Mei ma ke kūlanakauhale ʻo US o Minneapolis ma hope o ke kukuli ʻana o kahi mākaʻi keʻokeʻo ma kona ʻāʻī no ka aneane ʻeiwa mau minuke ʻoiai ʻo ia i paʻa i ka lima i lalo a ʻōlelo pinepine ʻo ia ʻaʻole hiki iā ia ke hanu.