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UFC champion Israel Adesanya speaks at Black Lives Matter protest in New Zealand

On Monday afternoon, approximately 4000 protestors took to the streets in Auckland, New Zealand in support of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement. The crowd, which marched to the US consulate chanting for justice, included UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya.

The peaceful crowd gathered at Aoeta Square to protest the killing of George Floyd, who suffocated to death after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck while restraining the African-American man. The officer ordered Mr. Floyd to “relax” while the 46-year-old man gasped, “Please, I can’t breathe.”

The crowd marched from the square to US consulate, where they reportedly chanted “No justice, no peace.