{"id":1293304,"date":"2022-02-12T13:23:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T18:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1293304"},"modified":"2022-02-12T13:23:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T18:23:35","slug":"new-zealands-covid-cops-fail-to-disperse-freedom-convoy-with-80s-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-zealands-covid-cops-fail-to-disperse-freedom-convoy-with-80s-music\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s Covid Cops Fail to Disperse Freedom Convoy with 80s Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-zealands-covid-cops-fail-to-disperse-freedom-convoy-with-80s-music%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1293304&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238306722-e1644678946726-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">New Zealand\u2019s freedom convoy has maintained its position outside the Parliament on Saturday despite varying police efforts to disperse them, including blasting the <em>Macarena<\/em>&nbsp;on loop, arrests, and even turning the garden sprinklers on.<\/p>\n<p>After failing to deter a freedom convoy by attempting to arrest around 120 people on Thursday, New Zealand\u2019s police officers have attempted to remove the protest of up to 1,500 people protest that has been in place in the Parliament\u2019s grounds since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/08\/new-zealand-protest-convoy-blocks-capital-demands-end-to-vaccine-mandates\/\">Tuesday<\/a>, with less orthodox police tactics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Reports have emerged that the NZ authorities attempted to remove protestors by blasting them with pro-vaccine propaganda and also 80s and 90s classics such as the <em>Macarena&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;Barry Manilow songs on repeat.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters however responded by dancing to the music and blaring back&nbsp;their own songs such as the Twister Sister\u2019s <em>We\u2019re Not Gonna Take It<\/em>, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2022\/02\/12\/new-zealand-fail-clear-freedom-convoy-protesters-despite-blasting\/\">report<\/a> from&nbsp;<em>The Telegraph.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Authorities also tried to shift the protesters \u2013 some of whom are camping within the Wellington Parliament\u2019s grounds \u2013 by turning on the parliament lawn\u2019s sprinklers, but protesters dug trenches and assembled plastic tubing to drain the water from the area and prevent it from affecting the campsite.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Zealand \u2013 Police drag naked woman out of pile of protesters by the hair. One officer kneels on her head. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WKhKWmVPA4\">pic.twitter.com\/WKhKWmVPA4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Totnan Klar (@totnan111) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/totnan111\/status\/1491634927141634058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wellington\u2019s police have been forced to take a more relaxed approach with the protestors after footage went viral of them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/10\/pictures-120-nz-freedom-convoy-protestors-arrested-in-police-crackdown\/\">dragging a naked lady<\/a> out of the protest by her hair on Thursday, which triggered&nbsp;widespread condemnation of the police.<\/p>\n<p>The extreme police tactics reinvigorated the protest \u2013 as numbers on Thursday had dropped to around 200 from an initial thousand on the first day of the protest \u2013 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/11\/new-zealand-police-back-off-as-freedom-convoy-protests-build\/\">1,500 people<\/a> arriving to support the freedom convoy on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern initially supporting the protest,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/covid-19-omicron-convoy-protests-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-on-parliament-protesters-its-a-part-of-new-zealand\/V2S7J6VHOYFZGZY77ILZJXQ2WE\/\">saying<\/a>, \u201cPeople often protest on the front lawn of Parliament. It is part of New Zealand\u201d \u2014 authorities quickly shifted their stance and declared that the protestors are in fact trespassing.<\/p>\n<p>Convoy participants have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VigilantFox\/status\/1491793447933464577?s=20&amp;t=c6WLLV1Ylb8-YhPH4fQapA\">challenged<\/a> this order, questioning how they can trespass on public property, saying it belongs to the people as it had been paid for by the \u201cblood of our forefathers on the battlefield\u201d and \u201cour taxes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Protestors, including those using their vehicles to block the roads around the Parliament, have committed to staying in place \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/09\/as-long-as-it-takes-new-zealand-truck-protesters-vow-to-fight-on\/\">as long as it takes<\/a>\u201d for the government to repeal coronavirus restrictions such as obligatory masks for children in schools and vaccine mandates for certain jobs such as healthcare workers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Zealand Police Back off as Freedom Convoy Protests Build<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/naaCPOJt3I\">https:\/\/t.co\/naaCPOJt3I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1492106150401101826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s freedom convoy has maintained its position outside the Parliament on Saturday despite varying police efforts to disperse them, including blasting the Macarena\u00a0on loop, arrests, and even turning the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}