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First, a s***e trader. Then a black activist. Now a pedestal in Bristol, England is empty again after the city took down the activist's statue on Thursday morning, Sky News reports. "This morning we removed the sculpture," the City Council said in a statement. "It will be held at our museum for the artist to collect or donate to our collection." The statue of Black L***s M****r protester Jen Reid was erected Wednesday, a little more than five weeks after protesters pulled down a statue of 17th-century s***e trader Edward Colston and threw it in the harbor. Now the city says artist Marc Quinn might have to repay the council for wh**ever it spent removing the work, which is titled A Surge of Power (Jen Reid).

"We welcome the provocation in many ways, but you also need to be an adult and take full responsibility for what you do," said Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees. "We need to make sure public services in Bristol do not pay the price for this." He added that wh**ever statue goes up next "must be decided by the people of Bristol" after much consultation and "tell our full history." But Quinn and Reid tell the Bristol Post that the work was never intended to stay up forever: "We didn't approach Marvin Rees or the council because it was about making an artwork which appears overnight and having a conversation," said Quinn. "This statue is only going to be there for a little bit—there should be a democratic process."

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