1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,920 Speaker 1: Not a classy weekend. Speaking of the road, but the 2 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: boy races raiming a series of police cars and Hamilton, 3 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 1: Waikato large gathering crowd being described as hostile and violent. 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: The district council mayor Jackie churches with us on this 5 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: Jackie morning, Good morning mate. You're sick of it like 6 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: everybody else. Absolutely what's happening here. It's one thing to gather, 7 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: it's another thing to be aggressive towards the police. There's 8 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: clearly no respect at all. 9 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, i'd agree with that, I think, And I think 10 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 2: also it's usually a small number of people who are 11 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 2: actually lead leading those people. A lot of those people 12 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 2: just probably liked to go out and then cruise around 13 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 2: them hang out with their mates. But I think there's 14 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 2: some content around leadership of actually being anti government, anti 15 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 2: authority and just taking it to the next level of 16 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 2: gates police, which is absolutely shocking to see. It's concerning 17 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 2: for the local residents of wherever it happens to be 18 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 2: at the time. It's happening all over the waik and 19 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 2: the Waikido district, but it's also current intense of they're 20 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 2: attacking the police. 21 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,199 Speaker 1: I don't know whether I mean I'm sure it's nationwide 22 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: to a degree, but what is it about the whitecata 23 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:09,400 Speaker 1: You seem to be the post to child for the 24 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:11,119 Speaker 1: sort of behavior. What's going on? Do you think? 25 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 2: Yes, when we wik kind a district council of the 26 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 2: White Nicy why kind of region which the region has 27 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 2: five hundred thousand people, we've got about ninety thousand, but 28 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 2: our district council because we're between Auckland border and Hamilton, 29 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,639 Speaker 2: which is the fastest growing to cities and New Zealand. 30 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 2: And you know, the through traffic along our state highway 31 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 2: is at the twenty thirty four rates, so we have 32 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 2: a huge amount of people who drive through. It's easily 33 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 2: accessible from those major centers. A lot of the people, 34 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 2: you know cars these days, they're coming from topol, they're 35 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 2: coming from further away, they're coming from from a down 36 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 2: you know. Social media these days means that we can 37 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 2: they can very quickly get together and change their plans 38 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 2: as to where they're going to meet and have multiple 39 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 2: people gathering together. I mean this started in the base 40 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 2: in Hamilton and then they've moved on from there by 41 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 2: the police and then ends up north of Hamilton, just 42 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 2: in hol tour just in our southern part of our district. 43 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 2: But this is happening all over the place. 44 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: As far as you're concerned with the police doing their. 45 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 2: Job, absolutely, but also you know, if you got two 46 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 2: or three hundred people and cars, and even if you've 47 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 2: got six or seven police units, which I understand we're there, 48 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 2: the ratio and the danger to those police and we 49 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 2: already know that would nicely thankful that we actually didn't 50 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 2: have any injuries of the police, but four units are damaged. 51 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 2: You know, that's the cost and the danger. It's just 52 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 2: not okay. Let alone the concerns of the residents around 53 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 2: that area when they're seeing that massive of people congregating 54 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 2: and in their community. 55 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: Couldn't agree more. Jackie, Well done, Jackie Church. Not that 56 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: you can do anything about it, I don't know. It's 57 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:46,919 Speaker 1: even the council's job, really, is it. I mean, apart 58 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: from expressing the frustration of the local community. 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