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Speaker 1: I'm getting really angry reading these stories about violence in

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Speaker 1: New Zealand, and I don't think that harsher sentences are

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Speaker 1: going to stop them. I don't think that the gang

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Speaker 1: patch ban is going to stop them. I don't think

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Speaker 1: that wrap around services are going to stop them either.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking here about Palmeston North Emergency Department. Yesterday daylight.

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Speaker 1: Doctors are at work, nurses are there. Cab driver has

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Speaker 1: a minor accident with gang members in the hospital car park.

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Speaker 1: Gang members attack the cabby. Another cabby comes to his rescue.

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Speaker 1: He gets beaten up, taken into one of the cabbies,

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Speaker 1: gets taken into the ed and hidden because the gang

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Speaker 1: members were threatening to kill him. Cops arrived, two cops

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Speaker 1: starting out, They get beaten up, the cop car gets attacked.

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Speaker 1: This is daylight on a Wednesday in Palmeston North, while

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Speaker 1: people are trying to get healthcare. Six police cars end

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Speaker 1: up having to come. They peper spray and they taser

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Speaker 1: and finally the situation under control. I mean, this makes me,

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Speaker 1: This infuriates me, makes me so angry hearing about this.

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Speaker 1: But what's going to fix it? A labor government, a

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Speaker 1: national government, I don't think so. You know wrap around services. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't believe it harsher sentences. I don't think in

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Speaker 1: situations like this, they're listening to our politicians. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what do you do? What do you do? Take your

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Speaker 1: own taser to the hospital probably the most reasonable response,

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Speaker 1: I think. I mean, that's what sort of them out yesterday,

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Speaker 1: isn't it get your tasers out? For more from Early

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