Thread: police block in

Storm in a tea cup and the legal expert holding the camera thinks he knows it all.

At the end of the day boy racers are getting discriminated against. Fuck I wonder why that it is? Maybe it's because because a percentage of them do have illegal mods and take part in illegal activities. And mum and dad I their standard ford territory don't...

I wish he'd stop making a fuss about this 'charity cruise'. If he is trying to do the right thing and have everything legit and no nasty surprises common sense says talk to the police and council about your plans and the best way to make it a safe event for themselves and the public - then you might not get your 'OMG rights breached and discrimination'.

Big fuss over nothing!

Funny in Auckland we can have very large meets and have the police come along and offer support. All it takes is some planning and common sense.

Nobody can comment until the actions of the Police have been reviewed. There are good and bad aspects to both sides involved. The Police cannot regularly hold people on a spot without just cause for an extended period like they did, however who knows what rights the 'boyracer' laws granted. The meet itself had no permissions to be on the land it did, 'public' land or not you simply cannot do that with so many people involved, however a number of people on the cruise were under the impression everything was legit... nek minit, blocked in by Police and held for up to 7 hours (unlike how some portray it as them all being held for that amount of time). Apparently they took a heavy handed approach with everyone, and that's what resulted in the huge uproar...

There were certainly some idiots there, but there were also people such as many of us here attending too. Regardless, anything of such nature falls under the boyracer umbrella in Christchurch, and given their massive unpopular reputation, if you choose to attend cruises like this then you need to accept you'll more than likely be hassled by the Police.

I think it's seriously unprofessional of NZPC to have this on their site.

Lol, I recognise one car and it's crew. Can't wait to ask him how his day went

I dont see why the police have to explain their actions to anyone.

They showed up, took heaps of illegals cars off the road, all innocent people were let on their way, no issue.

If people didnt continue to drive around in illegal cars and without licenses then the police wouldnt have to do this.

Originally Posted by WingIt

all innocent people were let on their way, no issue.

That's where the issue is, because they weren't. There have been a number of people who were in legal cars, not breaking any rules, and were under the impression the cruise was legit. They were held for a long time, and even upon requesting to the officers to leave the 'cordon' to use the bathroom they weren't allowed... therefore some were sub-sequentially arrested for public urination or leaving their car when told not to do so (Castle St tactics). I fully support taking all the illegal cars off the road and charging idiotic drivers, and even the idea of blocking all the cars in the cordon because it's not so easy to judge cars by the eye, but to disallow people who clearly needed to leave the area to do so is a blatant violation of the human right of freedom of movement.

Originally Posted by nykon

That's where the issue is, because they weren't. There have been a number of people who were in legal cars, not breaking any rules, and were under the impression the cruise was legit. They were held for a long time, and even upon requesting to the officers to leave the 'cordon' to use the bathroom they weren't allowed... therefore some were sub-sequentially arrested for public urination or leaving their car when told not to do so (Castle St tactics). I fully support taking all the illegal cars off the road and charging idiotic drivers, and even the idea of blocking all the cars in the cordon because it's not so easy to judge cars by the eye, but to disallow people who clearly needed to leave the area to do so is a blatant violation of the human right of freedom of movement.

Yeh the not allowing people access to the toilet is pretty heavy handed and overbearing, no matter what has happened in the past between these 2 groups, basic human rights shouldn't be waived just because they are a minority group who the public doesn't like. Imagine if it happened to another minority group instead of boy racers, the uproar would be immense.

And now they're trying to get all those who participated to go and make a complaint to the police oversight people.

I sort of think the police had the right idea but they executed it very badly and are probably now going to get a fair amount of trouble for it.

I think you'd have to be pretty naive to think that this was going to end in any other way than a bust. To be honest if you are all legit and go to such a "cruise" you should probably leave once the first munters show up and start doing skids, because it becomes obvious how it's going to go.

On the flipside, the carpet-bombing tactics by the cops appears a little heavy handed. How hard would it have been to quickly identify the troublemakers and the more unroadworthy cars and let the others go. It's been badly handled by the cops and I think someone in the force might get their knuckles rapped for this, since it's not the sort of publicity they want. Mind you, in Christchurch, this is how the general public like to see boyracer scum* dealt with.



*Anyone driving a car with mags and/or an exhaust louder than stock