{"id":19145,"date":"2020-06-10T10:36:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T01:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/10\/minneapolis-has-vowed-to-defund-its-police-new-zealand-needs-to-have-that-conversation"},"modified":"2020-06-10T10:36:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T01:36:51","slug":"minneapolis-has-vowed-to-defund-its-police-new-zealand-needs-to-have-that-conversation-julia-amua-whaipooti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19145","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis has vowed to defund its police. New Zealand needs to have that conversation | Julia Amua Whaipooti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dropping the armed police trial is a good step but we need transformational change to show black lives actually do matter<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe honour him today because when he took his last breath, the rest of us were able to breathe.\u201d These were the words spoken at George Floyd\u2019s funeral that I felt directly in my bones, here, on my whenua, or land, of Aotearoa New Zealand. On Tuesday, the New Zealand police commissioner told the country a trial of Armed Response Teams (ARTs) \u2013 frontline officers who routinely carry guns \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/09\/new-zealand-drops-armed-police-trial-after-public-concern\">will not continue<\/a>, and the teams will not be a part of the country\u2019s policing model in the future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The United States is 400-500 years deep in a history of colonisation and slavery. In Aotearoa New Zealand, we are 200 years into our colonial history, and the way in which colonisation functions here is also rooted in white supremacy. Colonial structures, by design, take powers away from indigenous people and people of colour, putting them into the hands of the colonisers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/10\/minneapolis-has-vowed-to-defund-its-police-new-zealand-needs-to-have-that-conversation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dropping the armed police trial is a good step but we need transformational change to show black lives actually do matter\u201cWe honour him today because when he took his last breath, the rest of us were able to breathe.\u201d These were the words spoken at Geo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,503,897,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indigenous-peoples","category-maori","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19146,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145\/revisions\/19146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}