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Either framed as a \u201cweird global media event\u201d or \u201cglobal iconic event,\u201d Floyd\u2019s murder forced a reckoning with histories of oppression and systemic racism, with a potential enduring social effect and a transnational historical significance by inviting resonance and global solidarity. This article focuses on the U.K. context and spans a decade to invite a rethinking of ideas of crisis, history, and hero through a consideration of the toppling of Edward Colston\u2019s statue and its pushing into the Bristol Harbour on June 7, 2020, by Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters, and Yinka Shonibare CBE\u2019s artwork Nelson\u2019s Ship in a Bottle (2010\u20132012), commissioned for the \u201cFourth Plinth\u201d temporary exhibits in Trafalgar Square. 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