
Originally Posted by
pete376403
On Friday, Police Commissioner Andrew Coster announced the Police would not pursue any enforcement action against protestors despite the protest site growing by the day.
He also backtracked on an earlier pledge to start towing vehicles from occupied streets around Parliament, saying that would only escalate tensions.
"We needed to explore the option of that and test what the reaction would be. That approach would have been provocative and unhelpful."
Coster instead said a traffic management plan, coupled with de-escalation tactics, would be the police focus."
AKA "Peace in our time" - look how well that worked last time (a declaration made by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in his 30 September 1938 remarks in London concerning the Munich Agreement and the subsequent Anglo-German Declaration.). Ohh, have I invoked Godwins?
Jacinda got him on a tight leash....
Seriously though it’s a smart choice and inline with modern nz tactics... what have we got going on here....?
A lot of people have gathered in one place in a kinda festival like atmosphere.
A small minority are saying and doing this some people don’t like.
A small minority may have had altercations or unpleasant interactions with some members of the public.
So absent any serious credible ongoing threat to public there is nothing that warrants instant police intervention given their normal workload of wife beaters and car crashes etc....
No different to a big cricket match and a few drunken bozos being dicks on way home. It doesn’t make all cricket fans criminals.
To do anything they will need a complainant that can identify an offender and provide evidence.
You can’t tow a car with a person inside it and the circumstances do not warrant physical removal of someone just to tow a car.
The general public is widely aware of what’s happening and can avoid the area. So really outside a couple idiots providing good sound bites to media nothing is going on that warrants police resources.
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket - Eric Hoffer
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