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Articles and Features
Collection of articles, predominantly from New Zealand media outlets, around the Black Lives Matter movement and marches in Aotearoa. The links included in the list focuses on New Zealand's news and current events pages that reported on the marches in Aotearoa as well as articles on the trial and verdict of Derek Chauvin.
Derek Chauvin murder trial: Jury finds former Minneapolis cop guilty of murdering George Floyd
Newshub
Lana Andelane, Tom McRae
Former police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the killing of 46-year-old Black man George Floyd.
Derek Chauvin trial: George Floyd's girlfriend recounts their drug use
Stuff
Steve Karnowski, Amy Forliti and Tammy Webber
George Floyd's girlfriend cried on the witness stand on Thursday (local time) as she told the story of how they first met in 2017 at a Salvation Army shelter where Floyd was a security guard with “this great Southern voice, raspy”. She also recounted how they both struggled with opioid addiction.
Derek Chauvin trial: New footage shows George Floyd inside shop shortly before death
Stuff
Michael Tarm
Prosecutors Tuesday (NZT) played video from an elevated police surveillance camera that hadn’t been previously released publicly. It shows officers first trying to get Floyd into a police vehicle, then pulling him out and putting him on the ground. Jena Scurry, a police dispatcher, testified that she checked that camera's feed off and on over several minutes and became concerned because the officers stayed in the same position for so long.
George Floyd death: 'I witnessed a murder', witness tells trial of accused police officer Derek Chauvin
Stuff
Steve Karnowski and Amy Forliti
A man who was among the onlookers shouting at a US police officer to get off George Floyd last May testified that he called 911 after paramedics took Floyd away, “because I believed I witnessed a murder”.
George Floyd murder trial: Jury finds Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts
NZ Herald
Amy Forliti, Stephen Groves and Tammy Webber
US President Joe Biden says George Floyd's death was "a murder in the full light of day and it ripped the blinders off" for all the world to see the problems with race and policing in the United states.
George Floyd murder trial: What next after Derek Chauvin's conviction on all counts?
NZ Herald
Amy Forliti
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd's neck, was handcuffed and taken into custody today after being convicted of all three counts against him.