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		</div><p>A US city has taken down a statue of Christopher Columbus as part of a movement which has seen monuments around the world to slave traders, imperialists, conquerors and explorers removed or vandalised in the wake of George Floyd’s death.</p>
<p>Officials in Camden, New Jersey, called the statue in Farnham Park a “<i>controversial symbol</i>” which has “<i>long pained residents of the community</i>”.</p>
<p>Protesters mobilised by the death of Mr Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis have called for the removal of statues of Columbus.</p>
<p>They say the Italian explorer is responsible for the genocide and exploitation of native people in the Americas.</p>
<p>Video from local news outlets showed the statue coming down on Thursday night.</p>
<p>City officials said “<i>a plan to re-examine these outdated symbols of racial division and injustices</i>” is overdue. The majority of residents of Camden, a city near Philadelphia, are people of colour.</p>
<p>Statues of Columbus have also been toppled or vandalised in Miami, Richmond in Virginia, St Paul in Minnesota, and Boston, where one was decapitated.</p>
<p>Protests and acts of vandalism have also taken place in New York, Paris, Brussels and Oxford, as part of an intense re-examination of racial injustices over the centuries.</p>
<p>Across Belgium, statues of Leopold II have been defaced in half a dozen cities because of the king’s brutal rule over the Congo, where more than a century ago he forced multitudes into slavery to extract rubber, ivory and other resources for his own profit.</p>
<p>Experts say he left as many as 10 million people dead.</p>
<p>On Wednesday night, US protesters pulled down a century-old statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy.</p>
<p>Elsewhere around the US South, authorities in Alabama got rid of a massive obelisk in Birmingham and a bronze likeness of a Confederate naval officer in Mobile.</p>
<p>In Virginia, a slave auction block was removed in Fredericksburg, and protesters in Portsmouth knocked the heads off the statues of four Confederate figureheads.</p>
<p>Supporters of Confederate monuments have argued that they are important reminders of history; opponents contend they glorify those who went to war against the US to preserve slavery.</p>
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