WELLINGTON: Protests sweeping the United States over the death of African-American George Floyd reverberated on the other side of the globe on Monday (Jun 1), with thousands of people marching in the streets of New Zealand.

The protests in New Zealand were part of a number of demonstrations around the globe, from London and Berlin to Australia and the Netherlands, after video showed a white Minneapolis police officer kneeling on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes before he died last Monday.