{"id":444741,"date":"2026-05-25T18:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/444741\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:39:08","slug":"auckland-bus-attack-video-sparks-call-for-stronger-passenger-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/444741\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland bus attack video sparks call for stronger passenger safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

Councillor Josephine Bartley told the Herald she has contacted Auckland Transport (AT) chief executive Stacey Van Der Putten for more details, questioning whether the bus driver had reported the incident.<\/p>\n

She said there needs to be quicker action between bus drivers, bus companies and police, and would like to know whether there was live CCTV on the route involved.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a youth problem, this is violent behaviour,\u201d she said. \u201cThose boys need to be dealt with.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only way to deal with this is police \u2013 that\u2019s not just kid\u2019s playing up.\u201d<\/p>\n

An AT spokesperson told the Herald it has CCTV footage of the incident, and the driver \u201cfollowed protocols by radioing for police assistance and pulling over safely to allow passengers to exit\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are following up with tagged passengers to check on their wellbeing,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

Police said they were aware of the video and were looking into what further inquiries could be made.<\/p>\n

The footage quickly spread online, fuelling anger that appears to have spilled into a retaliatory confrontation at Glen Innes Train Station on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

A new video appears to show one of the teens allegedly involved in the bus incident being forced to strip off his pants and do push-ups by a group on their way to the Tour De Hoods event<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The person who filmed the confrontation told the Herald he wanted to teach the teen a lesson.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got off the train and noticed him and just hit him up about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just thought making him do stuff that would humiliate him was better than hitting him.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he regretted reports another group later allegedly assaulted the teen and stole his shoes.<\/p>\n

After allowing the teen to put his pants back on, several riders could be heard telling him to \u201cmake the right choices, my bro\u201d.<\/p>\n

Tour De Hoods organiser and youth advocate Kimami Ngaluafe said the confrontation could have been handled in \u201ca better manner\u201d, but believed the youths involved were reacting out of anger and disappointment over the alleged assault of an elderly woman.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe boys reacted out of emotion and I could definitely hear their pain,\u201d he said. \u201cThey feel like, if that was their grandma, how would they feel?\u201d<\/p>\n

Ngaluafe said he could not condone the violence but he believed a tough-love approach could help the teen reflect on his actions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel for him. He\u2019s young, he\u2019s navigating life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s harsh, but I feel like it\u2019s going to do him some good. I hope it changes the way he treats people and the elderly.<\/p>\n

Ngaluafe acknowledged the teen being humiliated online would likely affect his mental health, but said he hoped he would use the experience to learn about respect.<\/p>\n

The AT spokesperson told the Herald safety ambassadors supported by transport officers have been deployed to the affected routes and will remain over the next few weeks to reassure passengers.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is urged to contact police via 105 and quote file number 260523\/2382.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Councillor Josephine Bartley told the Herald she has contacted Auckland Transport (AT) chief executive Stacey Van Der Putten…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[89,51,29893,30482,3043,5842,38607,38290,2082,71,209,56818,546,111,43,139,69,14734,6302,8207,42699,226982,28767,416,678],"class_list":["post-444741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-attack","tag-auckland","tag-authorities","tag-bus","tag-call","tag-calling","tag-condemned","tag-councillor","tag-for","tag-from","tag-group","tag-intervention","tag-measures","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-passenger","tag-safety","tag-sparks","tag-stronger","tag-swifter","tag-vicious","tag-video","tag-youths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444741","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=444741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}