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Speaker 1: Look, I'm baffled by the police commissioner writing that open

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Speaker 1: letter telling off Stuff today. You probably missed this thing

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Speaker 1: when it actually happened, which was back in September. But

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Speaker 1: back in September, in the week that Tom Phillips was

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Speaker 1: shot and the kids was safe from the bush, Stuff

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Speaker 1: got its hands on some of the audio of the

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Speaker 1: police chase and they published it and they got in

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Speaker 1: trouble with the coppers immediately, and then the cops started

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Speaker 1: an investigation into Stuff. Today, the police boss, Richard Chambers

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Speaker 1: has written an open letter in both main newspaper outlets,

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Speaker 1: as in The Stuff Guys and the New Zealand Herald,

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Speaker 1: saying the police have decided not to charge Stuff, but

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Speaker 1: don't do this again. It's really really bad now. I

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Speaker 1: cannot explain to you why Richard Chambers thought this was

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Speaker 1: a good idea, because either way you look at this,

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Speaker 1: this is not a good look. I mean, it either

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Speaker 1: looks like he's trying to bully the media into being

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Speaker 1: good boys and girls, or he hasn't got the cahorns

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Speaker 1: to actually do the thing that he's threatened and just

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Speaker 1: go and prosecute Stuff. But even what was even weirder

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Speaker 1: about it is. I just don't think that this warranted

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Speaker 1: the cop is getting disvexed about it. I mean, as

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Speaker 1: I said, you probably missed it when it happened. The

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Speaker 1: audio wasn't that interesting. It was like mildly informative because

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Speaker 1: it told us that the police officer who got shot

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Speaker 1: was alone and exposed like we suspected. And it showed

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Speaker 1: how we got in touch with various members of the

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Speaker 1: community locals to find out if they could hear Tom

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Speaker 1: Phillips on the quad bike so that he could track

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Speaker 1: Tom Phillips down. But really, other than that, it wasn't

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Speaker 1: interesting enough to draw public attention to it again, unless,

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Speaker 1: of course, you are trying to bully stuff. And while

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Speaker 1: I think this audio wasn't that interesting, I did find

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Speaker 1: it refreshing actually to have a media outlet be brave

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Speaker 1: for once and publish something that the authorities didn't want

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Speaker 1: them to publish and tell the public something that the

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Speaker 1: authorities didn't want them to know, you know, basically doing

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Speaker 1: their job. So on the whole, I think I'm on

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Speaker 1: the side of stuff on this one, mainly because I

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Speaker 1: don't like what this looks like, which is the police

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Speaker 1: trying to publicly shame them for doing their job. For

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