Footage uploaded to Facebook by Panapa\u2019s mother, Emere, shows a car parked in a narrow alley just off a strip of shops, surrounded by several officers and a group of young people on a night out.<\/p>\n
An officer approaches the driver\u2019s door and tells the 26-year-old to get out, which he appears to do before he is restrained.<\/p>\n
Moments later, the video appears to show Panapa being punched in the head twice by an officer.<\/p>\n
Panapa\u2019s partner, who was filming, can be heard telling him \u201cPanapa resist, Panapa resist\u201d, and was later heard repeating, \u201cHe just punched him in the head\u201d.<\/p>\n
She then repeatedly asked for an officer\u2019s badge number before alleging another officer shoved her head into a brick wall.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like I had no voice to say \u2018what\u2019s going on?\u2019\u201d Panapa said.<\/p>\n
He claimed an officer began calling him names and threatening him.<\/p>\n
\u201c[The officer] said, \u2018You\u2019re nothing\u2019, and I was just defenceless.\u201d<\/p>\n
Panapa said he was taken to the police station for processing before being released about two hours later.<\/p>\n
He was charged with possessing a weapon, cannabis and resisting arrest, but said: \u201cI do not admit to any of those things\u201d. <\/p>\n
Panapa said he and his partner had lodged complaints with the Independent Police Conduct Authority. <\/p>\n
Police confirmed they had received a complaint about the incident and were \u201ctaking a closer look at the circumstances\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not in a position to comment further at this stage,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
Days later, Panapa said he was still trying to process what had happened. <\/p>\n
Emere said watching the footage was \u201cheartbreaking\u201d and prompted her to share the video on social media because she believed people should see what had happened.<\/p>\n
She said she now worries every time her son leaves home, telling him to \u201cnever go alone\u201d because she feared \u201cthey might come after you\u201d.<\/p>\n
Panapa is due to appear at the Hamilton District Court on July 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Footage uploaded to Facebook by Panapa\u2019s mother, Emere, shows a car parked in a narrow alley just off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7818,65187,14466,9260,10001,257933,2837,2209,793,6288,106,16718,13457,111,43,139,69,675,105,312,4758,416,1524,1316],"class_list":["post-520115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-allegedly","tag-alleges","tag-arrest","tag-captured","tag-closer","tag-defenceless","tag-during","tag-father","tag-felt","tag-hamilton","tag-head","tag-him","tag-look","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-punched","tag-says","tag-taking","tag-video","tag-waikato","tag-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520115","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=520115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}