People rally in support of Black Lives Matter in the Octagon. PHOTO: CHRISTINE O’CONNORA couple of weekends back, several hundred people assembled in Dunedin’s Octagon under the Black Lives Matter banner. "People often look at Black Lives Matter as African American or black American people, that that is all Black Lives Matter is about," she says. A demonstrator walks past police officers near Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington. Research by criminal justice reform group JustSpeak has mapped the Black Lives Matter focus on inequality before the law onto the New Zealand landscape.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 28, 2020 15:22 UTC