Thousands march in New Zealand in suppport of Black Lives Matter

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Thousands march in New Zealand in suppport of Black Lives Matter

Thousands march in New Zealand in suppport of Black Lives Matter

Thousands of people chanted "black lives matter" as they walked through central Auckland on Monday (June 1), protesting the killing of Minneapolis African-American man, George Floyd.

Meanwhile, in the New Zealand capital of Wellington, hundreds marched from the parliament building to the U.S. embassy where they stood outside the gate, chanting.

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Floyd, 46, died on Monday (May 25) after video showed a white Minneapolis police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes.

It touched off outrage that has swept across a politically and racially divided nation with hundreds of thousands of protests across the United States.




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