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Speaker 1: Tamitha Paul, a woman yesterday mocked for her views on police.

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Speaker 1: Chris Hipkins said her views on beat police were unwise

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Speaker 1: and then he went further and said they were stupid.

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Speaker 1: The Prime Minister said she's in La la Land. Yesterday

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Speaker 1: when I was talking about the views, I commented that

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Speaker 1: life must be really sweet on her planet. Pity it's

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Speaker 1: not ours. But that didn't stop her doubling down yesterday

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Speaker 1: on her views because they're not untrue in her world.

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Speaker 1: She pointed out the brown people have quite a different

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Speaker 1: perception of police than others. Look up profiling and its meaning.

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Speaker 1: It happens here. We know this. She pointed out the

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Speaker 1: terrible failure of the police in the case of the

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Speaker 1: eleven year old confused with a twenty year old that

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Speaker 1: we all got shocked at. This week, she highlighted the

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Speaker 1: hassle of the homeless by the police and the reason

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Speaker 1: she didn't back down because, as she said, they are

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Speaker 1: legitimate experiences amongst her constituents. And remember she's agreen, but

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Speaker 1: she has constituents. She's not a list. MP one's Wellington Central,

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Speaker 1: Fair and Square. She's talked to people who have these problems. However,

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Speaker 1: the complaints of one are not the complaints of one hundred.

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Speaker 1: The vast overwhelming majority of New Zealanders feel better with

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Speaker 1: more cops on the beat. So she is wrong, and

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Speaker 1: she was wrong to take the experience of a few

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Speaker 1: and then expanded into a broad statement of let's defund

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Speaker 1: the police. However, I'm going to defend her right to

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Speaker 1: point out the flaws as she sees it, because that

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Speaker 1: is the true meaning of free speech. For more from

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