“Unfortunately now, news is coming out of police brutality, a seventy year old man and fourteen year old girl beaten up by police, one woman in hospital with a ruptured spleen and many cases of broken bones. With this kind of news, it has provoked the people, a second wave convoy is coming, many thousands more people are on their way to Parliament.”
Posted byStaff Writer|Feb 10, 2022
Written by our New Zealand Correspondent
As I predicted on Tuesday 8th February 2022 in my reportThe Spirit of a Nation, the carnival-like atmosphere at the New Zealand Convoy protest at the Parliament in Wellington didn’t last long. This Thursday morning, 10th February 2022, police advanced, forced protesters off of the Parliament grounds and tried to hold the crowd at bay – see this video footagehere, an interview with a police superintendent. [Ed: the video is in the NZ Herald and there’s a handy little map of the area around the Parliament building.]
By the time I turned up later in the morning, things had changed. Walking along Lambton Quay, life seemed fairly normal in Wellington, until as I walked towards Parliament, I suddenly heard the constant blaring of car and truck horns. Every road around Parliament…
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