Posie Parker protest: Man accused of punching elderly woman appears in court
A young Gisborne man accused of punching an elderly woman in the head during the heated Posie Parker counter-protest in Auckland late last month appeared in court for the first time today, waving briefly to the magistrate before nervously folding his hands in front of him.
He was granted interim name suppression and told to return to court in two weeks to enter a plea.
He appeared to be accompanied in court by an older relative, while controversial Auckland restauranteur and former Auckland mayor candidate Leo Molloy sat behind him in the Auckland District Court gallery wearing a fluorescent orange jacket and sunglasses.
The charge comes nearly a month after British anti-transgender rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, self-described as a women’s rights activist and also known as Posie Parker, had to abort her two-event New Zealand tour when her planned speech in Albert Park was drowned out by counter-protesters.
The pro Trans ally who punched the 70year old feminist in the head was first denied by the movement that it ever happened until the footage came out.
For the identity politics crew, they have to sell the protest as pure trans joy and not a violent mob because the rest of the country were shocked by the violence meted out to the 200 lesbians who wanted to talk gender critical feminism.
Most Kiwis thought the trans community were under threat but it was the old lesbian feminists who wanted to debate who were in danger.
The identity politics crew literally chased a woman from the town square and called that progress.
What we urgently need is leniency and healing here.
There should be a serious attempt to find resolution and a means to remedy this ugliness. The protester and the elderly women he punched need to meet and via some conflict resolution process if she is open to it.
Likewise, I think it is pointless and stupid to arrest Trans activist Eli Rubashkyn for assault. That would make those appalled by the woke violence from the weekend happy, but we can’t afford to feed our vengeance fantasies here.
Slay indeed.
People have a right to protest as much as Posie Parker has to speak, what happened on that weekend however went from protest to mob violence.
The pouring of soup on Parker was the least of the intimidation meted out to her on that day.
She was assaulted, shoved, pushed and pelted on her way down to the Rotunda, then had the soup pouring which was comparatively gentle. While in the Rotunda, Parker was pelted and shoved, and after the Police refused to get her out, she slipped on liquid poured by protestors and was almost torn apart by the mob…
…if we prosecute Eli Rubashkyn it will allow the rest of what happened to be glossed over.
We need the woke to step back, appreciate their militant cancel culture is part of the reason why someone like Posie Parker exists and actually re-engage in the debate with some humility!
Will they?
Like fuck!
This appalling attempt by The Spinoff to justify the ‘Pure Trans Joy’ is unfuckingbelievable, here you have a serious political commentator like Ian Powell calling for more street violence and here is ANOTHER post from The Spinoff, hilariously this time, it’s more public money from Creative NZ to propagate the lie that it was a peaceful protest ON A WEBSITE that is already funded by NZ on Air money.
It’s like one giant never ending social engineering propaganda arm paid by the taxpayer and their network of NZ on Air funding mates…
…so public money to fund a story on a platform that is already paid for by taxpayer money to tell you no violence occurred and any suggestion that there was any violence is transphobic.
That is what we are spending public money on, lies and more lies?
The woke are screaming that you look at the following and only see pure trans joy, look with your own eyes again…
…the woke must downplay the mob violence they unleashed and then follow that up with statements like this…
…just so that it’s clear that the mob violence wasn’t really violent, but it was and I quote, ‘pure trans joy’.
The woke are so reliant on echo bunkers and cancel culture rather than debating that they have lost the gift of persuasion and instead can only censor.
I believe Parker is a toxic trans troll anger grifter who says grotesquely offensive shit, but we deal with her not by censorship because it is the woke cancel culture that manifests people like Parker.
Those pitiful woke justifications as to why we had to violently chase a women off a public stage is beneath the mana of our movement on the Left.
We have to lead with the forgiving and we need to start with Eli Rubashkyn and the young trans activist who punched an elderly women in the head.
I know, I know, I know, but one of the sides needs to start attempting to heal this and the woke sure as fuck aren’t.
Political violence is never acceptable and if we allow the woke to drive us into violent political street movements we are doomed.
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So, physical assault should be allowed to go unaccounted for depending upon who is doing the assaulting should it ? I don’t think so.
So, physical assault should be allowed to go unaccounted for depending upon who is assaulted should it ? I don’t think so.
So, the police allowed New Zealand women to be intimidated and bullied because apparently those women were elderly lesbians did they? I really don’t think so.
When times are difficult, modern woman adopt feminine traits which goes to show that masculinity is more important for survival.
To answer your questions. Equal rights come with equal lefts.
It’s delusional to think that woman can confront biological males who have psychotic episodes.
I agree, do not waste time on the bloke in the pink jump suit who tipped whatever it was on Posie Parker. It looks like his full time reason for being is winning drama queen of the month. Look at me, look at me. Tool!
But as for that prick who brutalised that woman, fuck him, throw him to the wolves. It was hideous to see. And there better be no “cultural reports” and woe is me shit with more discounts than Briscoes, come sentencing from our weak judiciary to hide behind, either.
Good work Leo Molloy and TDB who via a comment link publicised this madness. Leo practically twisted the police’s arm up their back to actually do something about it. So much so police bosses in Wellington will be beside themselves that they were forced to act. Very sad that it takes a Leo Molloy nowadays to achieve this though.
Wow between 200 feminist lesbians and trans people the destiny church thugs must have not known who to intimidate first ( though to be fair they must have expected an earthquake any second)
If they have proper footage of common assault and can verify perpetrators should they not charge them, regardless of their views? I think they should. A while ago people were saying the police would not to do anything (like they were somehow anti Dosey Parker) so at least they have. They can’t see every point of contact as it happens real time.
If they had done their job properly on the day none of the assaults would have been possible. They failed. Deliberately in my view.
It looks that way. The intimidated nervous woman who was interviewed on ‘ The Platform’ said that when she approached police officers sitting in their car and asked for help the officer told her that it was ‘not their job to protect them,’ viz biological women. I gathered that this lady was making a complaint to the IPCA.
Police also failed to have the normal buffer area set up between the speakers’ area and the counter-protestors who the media, and politicians who should have known better, had been enflaming beforehand, so it was a potentially very dangerous situation, more so with police’s extraordinary hand washing behaviour.
Fuck em.
How come the cops aren’t spending hundreds of hours trawling through the hours and hours of video evidence and prosecuting the perpetrators from documented video evidence like they did in the parliamentary protests. Is violent assault and harrassment against women by men a crime or not?
Not.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/bay-of-plenty/300860879/woman-paralysed-with-anxiety-after-youth-group-groomers-prison-sentence-overturned
I can only disagree on one point – your continued slur about Posie Parker. It is Shaneen Lal who is the toxic trans troll anger grifter who says grotesquely offensive shit. The dude has serious mental issues and yet he is put on a pedestal by the media.
Sorry Salacious the slur is well and truly earned, or have you not seen her demented rantings on twitter?
You don’t get it do you. She cleverly knows how to wind up trans activists by stating biological truth and then letting them act like the hysterical out of control mediaeval lynch mob they are.
I congratulate Posie Parker for waking a lot of the sleepy hobbits the fuck up and credit her with the beginning of the end of this abject nonsense.
What utter bullshit. I would wind you up if I told you your existence alone means you are a child groomer. She is a f’ing idiot
Yeah, nah. The 70yo who was repeatedly punched in the head should not be told she “needs” to do anything.
And people who commit assault should be charged with assault.
Seriously. WTF?
Possibly they discovered if you strike first, you get hit second (and possibly harder & repeatedly). It’s an important life lesson and I’m surprised at her age, she didn’t know it, maybe she thought her sex protected her from retaliation.
Your desperate attempt to make aggressors into victims and victims into aggressors would be laughable if it wasn’t sad.
I’m not desperate to prove anything, the legal process, in possession of the full facts of this case will do that. My statement is that if you hit someone, don’t be surprised if you get hit back. Try it sometime, give a gang member a good old boot in the balls and see what happens, it’ll be fun.
Of course the shit thrown at police at the parliament protest were assault.
Assault is assault whoever is doing it
NZ is attracting extremists everywhere, the police ‘hug-a-crim’ and slow ability to act, while the woke in senior positions, virtue signalling of crims is enabling them.
Soup is a significant assault, designed to humiliate and stop her speaking. An object (like a dido) is much less of an assault than liquids – liquids can not be removed easily and derail the speaker. It would be unknown whether they are laced with something harmful or what temperature they are at. Very harsh punishment is needed because it is only going to get worse if the courts give this level of escalation a slap on the wrist.
Maybe overseas trans are more loveable like Marama says, but in NZ they seem to be enabled to attack others and have criminal records, from torturing and murdering a teen in Auckland https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/woman-jailed-for-life-for-torture-and-murder-denied-leave-to-appeal-to-supreme-court/BZTRTTU5NZWIURVL7JGCEVRPAM/, to ‘granny’ who murdered and has multiple convictions https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/hunted-and-wants-freedom-jailhouse-lawyer-arthur-taylor-defends-74-yo-dangerous-woman-on-the-run/6OZ3RAJWEJDO3ATZC6GDSJC2WU/ to this person about to be deported to NZ, knowingly infecting people with HIV. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/sex-worker-jailed-for-infecting-a-client-with-hiv-fighting-deportation-to-nz/BQEXZV5TJBF2TOB6TUTXTB776A/
Extremist groups should not be enabled to stop woman’s rights groups speaking nor should the police be slow to act while members of the public are being punched and assaulted.
This is very interesting reading.
“New Zealand rates of puberty blocker use are much higher than the UK, where the Tavistock Clinic’s Gender Service (GIDS) was closed due to unsafe practices. In New Zealand, Dr Sue Bagshaw reports that 65 per cent of her clinic’s 100 patients receive them. The Tavistock GIDS clinic prescribed blockers to about 6 per cent.
(ok then a practise in the UK that gave 6% puberty blockers is closed as unsafe. In NZ they give them to 65%!!! – but still going strong!)
Jan Rivers: Questions mount around the use of puberty blockers for children
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jan-rivers-questions-mount-around-the-use-of-puberty-blockers-for-children/JVKMNIUYUVBXDPCFPYSNZ34RWE/
Would not surprise me if there is a lawsuit going forward against the NZ government for their abuse of children in this space.
“The “guidelines for gender-affirming healthcare for gender diverse and transgender children, young people and adults in Aotearoa, New Zealand” require no diagnosis. Rather, clinicians are advised they should “recognise that each individual is the expert of their own gender identity”. That is, each child, regardless of their age, and any other mental health issues, is to be treated as an expert.”
They seem to have learnt nothing from Dr Selywn Leeks and abuse enquiry about experimenting on children. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/07/victims-allegedly-tortured-by-new-zealand-psychiatrist-fear-time-is-running-out-for-justice
Another article – the woke and extremists are being enabled everywhere – another warm, dry, home destroyed. If it’s not the weather, destroying homes built on flood plains, it’s enabled, angry vandals!
Meanwhile police missing in action.
“A landlord has been left devastated after a group of more than 22 people completely destroyed his rental property, kicking in walls, smashing windows, ripping out cabinets, and leaving taps to run.
The group allegedly went to the Papakura house a week ago and ripped out fittings, kicked holes in every wall, smashed all of the windows, kicked in the exterior cladding, pulled out insulation and left rotting fish at the home.
Taps were also turned on to flood the three-bedroom home.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/papakura-rental-property-in-auckland-completely-destroyed-after-tenants-evicted-for-rent-arrears/67TPJHNRAZH7LH2WOPAQQRUK6Q/
Don’t forget the pensioner farmer who was burgled four times, then attacked by the teens while asleep in bed, was taken to court when he retaliated. (Jury found the farmer, not guilty. What are families supposed to do, when there are repeated break-ins and the crims are getting away with it and escalating to attacks and police and justice do little to stop the escalation?)
Nah the little scroat can face the consequences of his actions.
If I, as a 70 year old man beat up a trans activist at a protest I would have been arrested, charged the been given an extra sentence because it was a hate crime.
The two thugs who committed common assault as part of a hate crime should face the same sentence
Interestingly the mad authoritarian left wants hate speech laws but the ability to use violence when it suits them, everyone else is a Nazi.
When the actual Nazis rose to power in the 30s there were hate speech laws in place and it didn’t stop fascism. Very importantly there was also a permissive wet bus ticket attitude to (political) violence.
So I’d suggest that any deviation from the rule of law -as is being done regularly now on skin color or upbringing or if a protest is deemed acceptable or not is just proving the left have become what they once stood against.
We saw them during BLM overseas, antifa violent extremist permitted to run rampant.
Actual little fascist tyrants.
One law for all, period.
Keepcalmcarryon Hear Hear. The rule-of-law is under threat in New Zealand.
There is not going to be some miraculous coming together and healing between trans allies and GC members until two fallacies are acknowledged : first that it’s not all “wokesters”who are pushing this ‘trans women are a kind of woman, leave them be ‘, it’s also a lot of women who don’t want people telling them what they feel , and secondly that it is SOME women who feel as the gender critical movement do – not most- and some of us have thought enough forward to understand there will be unwanted consequences for biological women if we follow what GCs are asking for.
Bomber the mediation idea is nice, maybe the kid will see the impact of his choices and learn from them. but Eli, the Poster boy for Trans Wonderfulness, needs to go down!
He has made himself a Causes celebre throughout the Woke Kingdom and needs to be punished to show A: NZ wont tolerate Assaults on others and violent attempts to curtail Free Speech and B: It wont tolerate politically motivated and organised Assaults designed to further a cause. Because make no mistake, Otago domiciled Trans Activist Eli didnt just happen to be in Auckland that morning with a bottle of Tomato Juice.
In actual fact the 70 year old woman attacked him first with a closed fist first.
You keep claiming this Geoff. Where is your evidence?
It is on the video but according to witness comments on the platform she was being chased by other protestors outside of shot. And when you look closely she is running at them yes with arms out, looks aggressive until you notice it looks like she is clutching shopping bags in each hand. If I was 72 and had shopping bags in hand I would be swinging them for all they were worth if I was looking to bash someone.
Geoff lye .. I suggest you get a hold of the drone footage that shows the guy crash tackling the elderly lady first .. she had no prior altercation with him. It’s also disgusting that even if a lady over 7” did have a closed fist and was advancing on a 20 year old man, you’d think beating her was acceptable … I hope you don’t have a wife .. or are near any kids
I am not looking to be vindictive but the Judge really needs to make a good determination here. I am not sure the elderly woman should sit down with the perp. She has been pretty wounded, physically and mentally by the ordeal. But reading out a victim impact statement will be available to her.
What will be the message to elderly women if an appropriate sentence isn’t passed down?
The man who throw the tomato soup is also up on another assault charge, so it’s more than one offence. They pretended to be a gender critical person, so they could get access to PP. they completely illustrate why women don’t want them in their spaces.
We are the ones who have been shut down, vilified and assaulted. Shouldn’t the onus to reach out be on the likes of Marama, Minister of VP to reach out?
Your best mate Chloe was part of the trans joy whitewash Martyn, and you should own that.
Ian Powell, is that the same person who writes on this blog updating us on matters in the medical fraternity? If he is straying into trans territory, I think he is biting off more than he can chew. And he should eschew straying away from his important subject for which he is uniquely informative and wise.
The rainbow as everyone knows is hard to find the end of. Leave it please for those whose thoughts wander and carry their feet along with them like Mary’s lamb’s’ tails in the nursery rhyume. There is big adult stuff to debate and improve in his regular topics which others cannot meet and greet on a similar high level. The social turmoil has too much similarity with that swirling round in 1960-70. Personally I’m thinking deeply about it on my own cognisance and an excited mob at protests brings a circus atmosphere to an important social movement.
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