Black Lives Matter demonstrators in England have taken down a more than 100-year-old statue commemorating a slave trader.   The memorial honoring merchant slave trader Edward Colston was destroyed by the crowd in Bristol while protesting the murder of George Floyd. They used ropes to remove the bronze statue of Edward Colton from its base. Protesters then dragged it to the River Avon and threw it in the water, where it quickly sank.   The statue had been a fixture in …