Nash – who took over as Police Minister from chris hipkins when the latter became Prime Minister – said the first thing he did in the role was talk to Hipkins about dropping the seizure limit to $0.
“He said, ‘Well, see if you can get it past Kiri [Allan]. And I went to Kiri and said this is what I want to do. And she said ‘No, we need to leave it at $30,000.'”
Nash then asked to take the issue to Cabinet.
“And she said ‘No, this is what it's going to be.' She obviously went to Hipkins and Hipkins said, ‘Okay, we're going to leave it at $30,000′. Why? Because it's anti-Māori. Bulls***.”
Nash claimed police were “race-agnostic” when it came to gangs.
“It doesn't matter if they're Māori, European, Chinese, Indian, what ethnicity – a gang member is a gang member is a gang member and they need to be held to account.”
Nash said the harm gangs perpetrated across communities, including destroying communities through methamphetamine, meant “we need to go really hard” on them.
I would have thought being anti-gang was being pro-maori considering the huge harms to many Maori caused by gangs.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
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Classic!
Our ex-Justice Minister didn't want to take action against major organised crime because it was anti-Maori. And she's part-Maori so she was effectively implementing a racist policy to protect criminal activity and her own.
That's right up there with the ex-Green Justice Spokesperson "liberating" clothes and bling from fancy designer stores without paying.
What is it with the Left and Justice. They just can't seem to grasp the concept.
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