The crowd was calm and peaceful and there was a low-key police presence. The protesters - awash with flags and placards, some reading “stop racism” - then reassembled at Midland Park before returning to Parliament, where fireworks were let off.
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Earlier, at Parliament, several young men had their faces covered with bandanas. There were also about a dozen children in the crowd, two of them dressed in army fatigue.
They’ve thoughtfully included a picture of one of the protesters.
You can see him on the left, with his
- peaceful, non-racist traditional weapon
- peaceful, non-racist face mask and hood
- peaceful, non-racist attack dog
- peaceful, non-racist Maori separatist flag
- peaceful, non-racist black leather pants
- unfortunately, there is no image of the peaceful, non-racist army fatigues
I also assume the fireworks were also made of some sort of non-explosive material, since it would be a bit dumb to demonstrate access to gunpowder (and a willingness to use it in public places) when protesting that one is not a terrorist.
That would just be stupid.
