OPINION
Police are treating the painting over of a rainbow crossing in Auckland this morning as a hate crime.
[…] In a statement, Auckland City Central Area Commander Inspector Grant Tetzlaff said police made a number of enquiries into the incident on Thursday afternoon and founds [sic] some items of interest.
Officers had raided a property in Flat Bush, which was linked to the owners of a vehicle involved, he said.
Wow, if only the cops were that keen when it came to, I don’t know, finding the kids doing ram raids.
[…] “We are aware of the hurt and confusion from the community at what has occurred and we want to reassure the public we are committed to holding those involved to account,” Tetzlaff said.
Hurt and confusion? It’s a crossing, FFS. The cops here are getting more and more like the Pommie ones every day.
“Police have no tolerance for reports of this nature, which appear to directly target a particular sector of our diverse community, and we are treating this as a hate crime.”
Meanwhile, Auckland Transport said they could have crews out to remove the white paint spattered over the Karangahape Road rainbow crossing as soon as tonight.
Hear that? Crews out tonight! All that and still keeping the trains running on time and the traffic flowing. Oh, wait…
[…] Meanwhile, Police Minister Mark Mitchell has expressed his frustration at the covering of the Karangahape Road rainbow crossing in white paint.
[…] “I am frustrated yes … the last thing I want to see is police officers having to deal with that sort of nonsense so whoever is doing it should stop it.”
Well why don’t you tell them not to deal with it then and treat it as a simple case of vandalism?
[…] ACT leader David Seymour has criticised the vandalism of the Karangahape Road rainbow crossing and said such behaviour was not a valid expression of opinion.
Seymour said, personally, he thought the rainbow crossings looked pretty cool.
With all respect David, go fuck yourself. You’d have at least some credibility if you had actually spoken out like this in support of the Jewish community and the “From the river to the sea” call-for-genocide slogans.
The argument for the crossings as far as I know is that they are there to make the “rainbow” community feel accepted, as if anyone apart from the wokesters in Auckland Council give a crap. But, as I wrote about last week, only one in five autistic people feel accepted. So where are the welcoming crossings for them? And remember there are at least 96,000 people with autism in New Zealand, and that’s not counting those undiagnosed. That’s a whole lot more than those who can’t make up their mind what gender they are.