Armed Cops turning up to strikes is unacceptable, where is the Minister for Police on this?

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One of the impacts of allowing the Police to be armed in the wake of the atrocity is that when you get back to some semblance of normality, they still have their bloody guns.

Armed Cops rolling up to strikes  is utterly unacceptable!

Last night Young KFC strikers had their picket lines intimidated by armed cops with Glocks and tazers on display.

It only takes one dumb panicked ill-trained cop to suddenly escalate events.

The cops aren’t even supposed to be wearing tasers to protests for Christ’s sake!

Armed Cops turning up to strikes is unacceptable, where is the Minister for Police on this?

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  1. Where is the working class champion Andrew Little, more to the point?

    Inevitably Ministers become dogs wagged by the tail. Bureaucracy rules.

    Ask Obama and even Mr Trump.

    As much as many who support this left leaning blog may dislike “it”, only Roger Douglas looms in my recollection of recent politicians as one who took control over their ministries.

    Unlike most Ministers who think they know it all but don’t and thereby get sucked in by ministry bureaucrats who are there for life, Roger accepted that he didn’t know it all and recruited experts ie mandarins, to challenge the bureaucrats.

    Today, in my view, Little and Nash are totally subservient to their masters.

    Some call this, Democracy.

    Ross Meurant

    • “Inevitably Ministers become dogs wagged by the tail.”

      Ain’t that the bloody truth. What intrigues me is WHY this happens when there are a few Ministers around with a reasonable amount of smarts.
      Is it just that they’re actually a bit wet?
      I mean they MUST know they’re being spun and in various cases, outright lied to (or I probably should say “mis-sold the truth”).
      What’s your impression?

  2. Disgusting!

    As usual using a terror attack to create loss of civil liberties to people who did not put that legal gun licence or semi-automatic weapons and allow him to live in NZ for years, in the terrorist’s hands!

  3. Nothing like showing young persons whose the BOSS. Make them familiar with armed police leading to acceptability, inevitability. Gun Creep. Just wondering was there such force shown at the recent teachers strikes, Doctors, Nurses and other upper echelon strikers if any, just a thought.

  4. Police…armed with guns and tasers.
    Kids….armed with chicken nuggets.
    Bit of Stuart Nash hash on the side.

  5. yes a backlash but act and national wont get in they had there 9 yrs so they had there turn its another lots turn to see if they can do better and anything has go to be better than waiting for the brighter future they promised us but never eventuated unless you were in the 1%

  6. I wonder if the outcome of the 1981 springbok tour would have been if the red and blue squad had been armed ?

    Unless the cops had credible information that one of the KFC workers was armed with more than a bucket of chicken then they can use ” the safety of the public excuse ” and ” response to a serious threat ” by being armed.

    Also if there had been a real threat i am sure the union would have cancelled the protest.

    I didn’t see any of that !

  7. This govt seems to sink lower and lower. First freedom of speech under attack and now armed cops. I’ll add its not the cops fault either. A policy somewhere told them to strap on guns.

    To me NZ is looking more and more like a frightening police state with every passing day. Time for this govt to go come 2020. I’m not sure I can take three more years of this.

  8. Armed police turning up to strike protests or other forms of protest, will encourage some unsavoury members of the public (not the strikers themselves) to appear at protests, armed with dangerous weapons. Their motive being an opportunity to have a free for all, all out fight, or worst case scenario, a shootout with police or any other party they consider needs a “seeing to!”

    The consequences of such a situation arising, could very well lead to protests being banned completely, an ominous threat to our right to peaceful protest action.

    No armed police at protests for that reason alone please!

  9. Hi there!
    According to Wikipedia:
    “The current Minister of Police is Stuart Nash. While the New Zealand Police is a government department with a minister responsible for it, the Commissioner and sworn members swear allegiance directly to the Sovereign and, by convention, have constabulary independence from the government of the day.”
    This is quite surprising.
    However justified, outrage and complaints are probably not effective if directed at the Honourable Mr Nash; it may be more useful to write to the palace direct.
    I find it ironic that our Prime Minister berates the US for their lack of gun control while the guy and gals back home sport these kind of accessories.

  10. slowly but surely they sneak the guns in and arm the police. Disgusting American ways that are not wanted here! Only causes MORE HARM, not less.

    • Bloody Americans again. A travesty that Kiwis don’t have any say over their own country — Christchurch happened while we weren’t looking too, and guns were brought in, a bit too late, but as a sign of caring. No worries, she’ll be right.

  11. Did anyone notice that the Police Association doesn’t wan’t P.O wearing Bodycameras? But wearing guns to KFC picket protest seems fine!!

  12. So, the de facto arming if police has taken place, on the quiet

    We must’ve missed the memo

    Martyn is right. It will take only one poorly trained, inexperienced cop, and then watch the finger pointing begin

    How many deaths will it take??

    • ” How many deaths will it take ”

      A hell of a lot before any action is taken.

      That is the way we sleepy hobbits do things in Aotearoa.

      Just look at the road toll

      • You are unfortunately 100% right Mosa

        Thats how things roll in this country. People have to die before we’re shaken out of complacency

        The police minister is missing in action on this vital issue

  13. We had better get used to armed police. Just as we had better get used to more censorship. #theaftermathofChiristchurch.

    • Nope we don’t have to get used to it. The Chch shooting was preventable and not done by a NZ citizen. So nope if the multiple agencies had done their jobs then CHCH would not have happened and that is where the pressure should be, not on, oh well, lets just arm up police and get used to foreign nationals blowing away other residents as they plan it for years, get no questions asked legal gun licenses and semi-automatic weapons, complaints of their behaviour on the gun range not taken seriously, etc etc

    • Pike river, CTV building collapse and so forth are large amounts of preventable deaths in NZ, which in NZ style seem to count for nothing and target the wrong people, as our authorities are incapable of taking responsibility and instead take power away from the system that used to work while creating new systems to give authorities or their agents more power and control to more dysfunctional systems.

      • Idk? First they came for our Twitter accounts and now they want armed cops to do it because of pseudo interlectual connections of being woke prior to the 15/3 and the war on terror afterwards.

  14. Wadduwe thunk 15/3 wuz all about? Critical Thinking ?
    Internet control?
    armed police?
    Habeas Corpus??

    The Red Team has spoken.

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