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Photo: RNZ / Richard Tindiller
Earlier this week, RNZ revealed police are approaching innocent young people, photographing them, collecting their personal details and sending it all to a national database called National Intelligence Application (NIA).
Gisborne mother Bronwyn Williams said her son was photographed by police late one night while walking home from a basketball court with his friends.
She did not know why his photograph was taken, but suspected police would use the information if he was ever caught offending in the future. This is a form of racism, they re racially profiling our kids, she said. The message is, we don t trust you. You re gonna f k up, and when you f k up, we already have your information and we re gonna get you .