Gang members need to start protesting at police funerals
Napier Mongrel Mob tangi: Mourners and gang members arriving as police surround venue
- The farewell for a Napier gang leader is taking place at a community clubroom as up to 400 mourners arrive.
- Former Mongrel Mob Barbarian chapter leader Angus Benson died unexpectedly last week.
- Police have set up checkpoints and surrounded the clubrooms in a bid to oversee the influx of gang members into Napier this weekend.
To protest the deeply offensive intrusion into funerals, Gang members should start protesting at Police Officer funerals.
Let’s see how the cops cope with that.
Allegations of heavy handed tactics in Opotiki against Māori gang members where children were left unattended and mothers and grandmothers were strip searched, suggest the Police have learnt nothing from the Royal Inquiry into historic abuse of those in State care.
Those mokopuna locked in the back of a police car for hours while their family were arrested and strip searched, how will they view their first interaction with Police?
The 501 syndicates have brought with them a sophistication and violence beyond our domestic gangs with South American cartel links bringing in cheaper and more pure meth resulting in gang stand overs of other gangs, we want heavy handed tactics used against organised crime, so why are we wasting time with patched gang members who are at the bottom of that crime pyramid?
Considering the manner in which Chinese shadow banking is playing in the criminal infrastructure connecting South American Cartels to 501 syndicates in NZ, wouldn’t it be a far greater use of police resources to hire 100 mandarin speaking staff and attack that Chinese banking infrastructure than chasing gang members around for wardrobe violations?
If Heavy Handed Police tactics spark violence at a Gang Funeral, they will be provoking something far greater in response.
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While I have major lifestyle differences to the gangs their patch is not something that I have any concerns about. I think that it is a real problem that any government thinks that it is acceptable to invent a issue to target any group they don’t like because there is always the risk that they will decide that any other group they disagree with will suffer the same fate and dictatorship here we come.
While I see your logic in protesting at police funerals I do fear the consequences so hopefully that doesn’t happen.
Gang patches will fade into nothing compared to the carnage coming very soon from the drug wave sweeping the country .But its more simple to deflect by policing what people wear than increase the effort at the border to prevent the entry of drugs into NZ .
Just look at the destruction in Tonga and Fiji that is happening right now .Wont happen hear I hear you say well it was not over night in those places was it .
Very provocative and bloody mindedly downright mean. Emotions are always heightened at a funeral so really asking for trouble policing them. Funerals are private for friends and family so police shouldn’t be allowed near them. If gang members go to police funerals …
Bit of a dumb idea mate. There was an article in today’s Herald with the mother of the young Orewa constable who was shot dead…heartbreaking stuff. Please engage brain before writing
You are dead right. And, just like when he was a mercenary, Mark Mitchell is going to get his minions killed.
The best thing about gang insignia is that at least the public know who and where they are. Do we want a more sinister and invisible mafia, even more so than the National Party?
The gangs push product from overseas cartels. If drugs can get in, then weapons and hitmen will get in too. If the cops target gang community events, like funerals on private property, then it will only be a matter of time before the cops are targeted. These cops are on the electoral roll, remember. It wouldn’t require much effort on the gangs behalf.
I think they should just start wearing National Party patches.
What are police going to do about that?
Dunno about that. “ When the constabulary duty’s to be done, to be done, a policeman’s lot is not a happy one…” Coppers don’t make the laws they enforce them. The lawmakers are the ‘significant others’ here, and it’s not always clear who they are nowadays either, but blaming cops isn’t exactly cricket.
OK so gang members are offended.
And?
Remember Andrew we must not make the gangsters cry as they are easily upset .
just like you are because your government is about to collapse because the leader has gone into hiding
It amazes me that a law that clearly breaks international human rights bills is enforced with such vigor against “Gang” members of which there is apparently only 9000 of them.
50 odd police and a helicopter in there air seems a great waste of taxpayers’ money for a funeral. To top it off feedback from mourners was they couldn’t hear the funeral because of said helicopter. Shame on you for disrespecting a funeral so badly. To all you naysayers to Gangs who support the Gang legislation currently in play, don’t cry about a lack of Police at your ACTUAL crime happening because the Police are too busy collecting jackets?! Police are clearly enforcing shit laws and influencing the creation of said shit laws. It’s still illegal to beat people up, extort people, blackmail people, do burnouts, rape, plunder and kill people. Did we really need a new law?