{"id":550777,"date":"2026-07-30T05:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/550777\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T05:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:46:10","slug":"ten-arrested-after-mass-courthouse-brawl-at-palmerston-north-district-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/550777\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten arrested after mass courthouse brawl at Palmerston North District Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">Ward also acknowledged the help of court security staff and attending police. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police were called to the Palmerston North District Court on July 16 after reports of a fight. Photo \/ Jeremy Wilkinson\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police were called to the Palmerston North District Court on July 16 after reports of a fight. Photo \/ Jeremy Wilkinson<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThey put themselves directly in harm\u2019s way to separate the group, and ultimately prevented this situation from escalating further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">He said the safety of the community was the priority of police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cViolence of this nature will not be tolerated, and we remain committed to holding those believed to be responsible to account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">The nine additional people, aged 15 to 33, are due to appear in the Palmerston North District Court throughout August, facing charges of fighting in a public place, assault with intent to injure and criminal damage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">Ward urged the public to contact police about any suspicious or unlawful activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019re here to help keep Palmerston North safe, but we can\u2019t do it alone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ward also acknowledged the help of court security staff and attending police. Police were called to the Palmerston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,11924,1975,1558,51369,1349,36642,7557,305,27612,111,43,139,529,69,6292,384,6034],"class_list":["post-550777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-arrested","tag-at","tag-been","tag-brawl","tag-court","tag-courthouse","tag-district","tag-have","tag-mass","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-palmerston","tag-people","tag-ten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550777","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=550777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}