That must’ve been a really cool experience for our officers, providing an escort to a bunch of people who probably deserve to see the inside of a jail cell, rather than getting waved through like VIPs or dignitaries.
But that is exactly what happened today.
Our police officers, get a load of this, shut the main drag in Ōhope for two hours around midday to 2pm so that the gang could use both sides of the road.
Which meant that law abiding citizens were forced to pull over and wait for two hours to be able to use the road and get where they need to go. According to our reporter, there was a line of at least 400m worth of cars waiting.
Now how do you think that felt for them? They weren’t allowed to use the road that they paid for in their taxes, while these delinquents and bludgers get exclusive use.
I don’t think this is the kind of policing that any of us want to see, where extra coppers are brought into the district to control the normal folk so the gangs can have free reign.
I don’t think we want to see this, where the police stand around doing no more than taking photos of gang members who are pulling shakas and sieg heils and burnouts in front of the officers, as if rubbing their faces in it.
And where the worst that the police can threaten is some after the fact punishment for reckless driving and skiddies.
There were gang members driving on the wrong side of the road, hanging out the windows and doors. If that was me, I'd have a police officer on my tail pulling me over. Can they not do the same to the gangs?
If numbers are the problem, get more police. There were 500 mungies there and 100 cops. Do you see the problem with that equation?
What the police and the public have been forced to endure today is embarrassing.
This isn’t going away. When we see the police wave the gangs through like VIPs, they’re going to get used to it and keep expecting it.
Police bosses have set themselves up for more of this.
Heather du Plessis-Allan is a journalist and commentator who hosts Newstalk ZB's Drive show.
7 comments:
I suggest you ask Kelvin Davis some hard questions. After all he is the Minister for Māori - Crown Relations. Better still invite him to be on your show. He will of course decline, being too busy with co- governance.
Are these thugs our new royal family? The british royals are the evil colonist baddies and these gang members are the new role models apparently. Just like the royals, they get roads blocked off for them, and police protection from the public. Isn't it great? Decolonisation is going to work brilliantly in nz. I can't wait for the streets of our biggest cities to be taken over by the new gang royals, all of us rushing out to watch their amazing processions. Heather is correct with everything in this article.
Well said, Heather.
The bottom line, to me, is this:-
If you or I drove a truck down the main street, on the wrong side of the road, honking the horn, with shouting hoons leaning out of the windows, we would be very quickly STOPPED by the Police, arrested and charged.
But if we were part of an outlaw racist gang, the police would clear the road for us to carry on.
It's what this labour/greens/maori cult call co-governance Heather. Get used to it. It aint a patch on tribal rule that is coming if this corrupt bunch are re-elected.
Surely the gangs are only exercising their rangatiratanga rights under the Treaty. They are behaving in acord with te ao and tikanga uder the auspices of what are in effect latter day rangatira. The present Waitangi Tribunal would likely enthusiastically back this interpretation.
If being a patched thug that sells drugs to kids will give me special rights and privileges over and above those of other citizens, where do I sign up?
I wonder how much of it we will see in the MSM if it's reported at all?
And Waititi mouthing off about us not having the right to talk about his iwi.
Well, Rawiri, it's everyone's business when people are concerned about anti-social behaviour and some not following the rules that we all need to exist peacefully. What is happening is comparable to the lawlessness of the pre-treaty days and we all know how that went. That's why the chiefs wanted a treaty in the first place. Full circle and one law for all please.
MC
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