A security guard has been charged following a “violent assault” outside a bar on Auckland’s Karangahape Road overnight. <\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to the scene at around 1.38am after witnesses reported seeing a security guard punch someone in the face, knocking them unconsious. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe guard then allegedly dragged the unconscious male a short distance down the road and left him by a bench,\u201d Senior Sergeant Shaun Richardson said. <\/p>\n
The man was woken up by officers, checked by ambulance staff, and taken to hospital with moderate injuries. <\/p>\n
The alleged offender was stopped while trying to get into his car.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old was charged with injuring with intent, and will appear in the Auckland District Court on June 10. <\/p>\n
\u201cSecurity staff know they have obligations around their conduct and there is no place for violence in our community,\u201d Richardson said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe certainly do not expect this from people who are in jobs intended to keep people safe when out enjoying themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A security guard has been charged following a “violent assault” outside a bar on Auckland’s Karangahape Road overnight.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-460362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460362","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=460362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}