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Wednesday <strong>February</strong> <strong>14</strong> <strong>2024</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News<br />
Use of prop babies<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
NEWS 3<br />
distressing to children<br />
• From page 1<br />
Guest does not want to<br />
be misunderstood as anti-<br />
Palestinian.<br />
“It’s not that I don’t support<br />
their cause. I absolutely respect<br />
their right to protest, I just was<br />
really, really upset in the manner<br />
that it was carried out.”<br />
Guest would have liked some<br />
advanced warning about the<br />
demonstration.<br />
“I could have put steps in place<br />
to stop my children from being<br />
exposed to things like that.”<br />
She found the use of red<br />
paint and the prop dead babies<br />
offensive.<br />
“It’s not a 9 and 10-year-old’s<br />
responsibility to carry the weight<br />
of the world on their shoulders.”<br />
Protest organiser Ihorangi<br />
Reweti-Peters said the use of the<br />
props and road blocking was<br />
justified to spread awareness of<br />
child deaths in the Israel-Hamas<br />
war.<br />
“I stand by civil disobedience.<br />
Our Government still hasn’t<br />
called for a ceasefire.”<br />
He said the prop dead babies<br />
were used to represent the children<br />
killed in Gaza by Israel.<br />
Use of the props will likely<br />
continue at future protests in<br />
CONFRONTING: Protestors<br />
created bundles to act<br />
as prop baby bodies,<br />
representing those killed in<br />
Gaza since the beginning<br />
of the recent Israel-Hamas<br />
War.<br />
PHOTO: RNZ<br />
Lyttelton and elsewhere, as he<br />
views it as an important tool to<br />
spread the protest message.<br />
“What I don’t agree with is<br />
the pepper spray and the police<br />
brutality towards peaceful protesters<br />
who were standing on the<br />
footpath,’ said Reweti-Peters.<br />
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protest was fully peaceful.<br />
“That’s flat out wrong,” she<br />
said. “The protesters were hitting<br />
police officers with their signs<br />
and being dragged off the road.”<br />
Police said they were aware of<br />
the use of the props.<br />
“While we appreciate some<br />
people may have found the items<br />
confronting, our primary concern<br />
was any behaviour that put<br />
those involved, the public and<br />
our staff at risk.”<br />
Police said pepper spray was<br />
used because “a handful of people<br />
failed to comply with police<br />
requests to move and following<br />
a number of warnings, staff utilised<br />
tactical options available.”<br />
A spokesperson said four men<br />
at the protest were taken into<br />
custody and charged with obstructing<br />
a public place, resisting<br />
police and assaulting police.<br />
Two of the men, political<br />
activists John Minto and Paul<br />
Hopkinson, appeared in the<br />
district court on Monday.<br />
Their next appearance is April<br />
22.<br />
The men were among those<br />
pepper sprayed and have now<br />
laid a complaint with the<br />
Independent Police Conduct<br />
Authority.<br />
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