it's astounding that NZ police KNEEL on a Maaori person and rupture his oesophagus THIS WEEK. While knowing they're being filmed. This can't be clueless, it's a message.

i guess i missed out the more likely explanation -- it's just normal procedure.

That imported usage (still today) of the "thin blue line" symbol, which has no history in NZ - is another message - that they seem themselves as kindred to the USA police and their violent racist bullshit

But hey that's their whakapapa. The armed constabulary still out to harm the "natives"

Can you hear his friends and whaanau begging with the police to get off him, and to stop hitting him in the head.