{"id":380575,"date":"2026-04-15T11:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/380575\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:29:09","slug":"police-appeal-for-footage-after-whakatane-shopping-centre-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/380575\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal for footage after Whakat\u0101ne shopping centre brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis sort of public-place violence is unacceptable, and police will not tolerate it \u2013 and nor should the community,\u201d Hay said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe know there was a large number of people who witnessed this fight, and I\u2019d like to thank all those who called 111 immediately to report the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Hay said police were inquiring into the incident and were looking for those involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">He asked those who witnessed the fight, or have footage of it, to call police on 105, to contact them online, or come into the Whakat\u0101ne Police station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis sort of public-place violence is unacceptable, and police will not tolerate it \u2013 and nor should the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,6375,51369,1550,19473,2082,305,18087,111,43,139,69,675,1243,19554,416,2240],"class_list":{"0":"post-380575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-appeal","10":"tag-brawl","11":"tag-centre","12":"tag-footage","13":"tag-for","14":"tag-have","15":"tag-issued","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-police","21":"tag-shopping","22":"tag-taken","23":"tag-video","24":"tag-whakatne"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380575","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=380575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}