The True Patriots group then performs a haka before linking arms and chanting \u201cOne true God\u201d, \u201cJesus\u201d and \u201cGod of nation\u201d, while being kept apart from the Sikh group by police. <\/p>\n
Inspector Matt Hoyes said a group of about 50 people blocked Great South Rd at about 2pm this afternoon, attempting to disrupt a scheduled public parade by members of the Auckland Sikh community. <\/p>\n
Police separated Sikh protestors confronted by a group linked to Brian Tamaki.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice acted swiftly to ensure the parade was able to safely continue and additional officers were called in to escort the parade participants through the remainder of their route.\u201d <\/p>\n
Officers remained in the area until after the parade concluded to provide reassurance to the Sikh community. <\/p>\n
\u201cNZ Police recognises the lawful right to protest,\u201d Hoyes said, \u201chowever we will not tolerate actions that threaten public safety or intimidate others exercising their lawful rights.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the caption of the video, Tamaki said \u201cTHIS IS OUR LAND. THIS IS OUR STAND.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, True Patriots stood their ground in South Auckland.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo violence. No riots.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust my young men performing a haka\u2026face-to-face\u2026to send a clear message:<\/p>\n
\u201cKEEP NZ, NZ.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the past week, police have stepped up reassurance patrols, particularly at Jewish sites<\/a>, following the Bondi Beach shooting that left 16 people dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tamaki took to social media after the terrorist attack to claim \u201cmulticulturalism is ruining Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The True Patriots group then performs a haka before linking arms and chanting \u201cOne true God\u201d, \u201cJesus\u201d and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11730,51,1558,5159,12897,39735,12896,17752,209,78,7055,111,43,139,69,34258,25266,101122,1240,31421,120054,1961],"class_list":["post-193134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-afternoon","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-brian","tag-church","tag-confronts","tag-destiny","tag-disrupted","tag-group","tag-in","tag-linked","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-parade","tag-protesters","tag-sikh","tag-south","tag-tamaki","tag-tamakilinked","tag-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}