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Black Lives Matter protesters graffiti Abraham Lincoln statue in London

By Spencer Neale
Published June 6, 2020 7:40pm ET
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Black Lives Matter protesters graffiti Abraham Lincoln statue in London
In this June 17, 2009 photo, a statue of Abraham Lincoln, who led the United States through its 1851-1856 Civil War, looks out over London's Parliament Square. Lincoln's statue is one of many tributes to American heroes which pepper the British capital. | (RAPHAEL G SATTER/ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Protesters in London scrawled the names of black people killed while in the custody of or by police onto a statue of President Abraham Lincoln in Parliament Square.

Video and images from the area show protesters climbing the statue to cheers from the crowd before vandalizing the statue with spray paint and covering the base of the statue with Black Lives Matter signs.

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