2 Mar 2022

Dangerous conflict between police, protesters around Parliament

From Checkpoint, 6:16 pm on 2 March 2022

At Parliament police have fired sponge rounds at protestors who have been forced out of Parliament grounds.

RNZ reporters at the scene saw police fire a sponge round gun at people throwing rocks at them and have seen one of the rounds.

One man told RNZ reporters he was shot while trying to stop protestors from throwing bricks at police.

There's a bin on fire outside Victoria University and a glass front door has been been completely smashed.

Police say they've completely cleared Molesworth Street of all protester vehicles that had been blocking the street.

They've arrested 65 people and towed 50 vehicles. The protesters are all but gone from the Parliament grounds, but that has spilled out onto the streets.