Part of my city was turned into a police state today, with streets closed off and walls of police quizzing residents in order to defend a pack of out-of-town blood merchants at their weapons expo. People protesting against it were arrested and assaulted, and one was left with concussion. Worse, one was sexually assaulted:
I was searched by a male cop, who put his hands in my back pockets and waistband. No badge on his uniform, and all the. cops arresting me refused to give me his number when asked.
— ☭ emmy ☭ (@cannibality) October 31, 2018
This is just wrong - both the assault and the pointed silence and complicity of other officers. And it shows that the New Zealand Police have learned nothing from the police rape affair, and utterly failed to stamp out the culture of silence and cops defending their own which allowed Rickards, Shipton and Schollum to rape so many women for so long.
