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Protester Anne Smith, centre, just after she was pushed on March 11 by councillor Tim Skinner, right. Fellow Extinction Rebellion protester Yasmeen Jones-Chollet is on the left. Skinner also says that in a private message on social media that was later made public, “I made negative comments” about Nelson mayor Rachel Reese’s reasons for making a code of conduct complaint in relation to the incident. “I should not have criticised the mayor s reasons for initiating the code of conduct process,” Skinner says. “That was unfair and disrespectful. “What I did was not OK. I m sorry that I did it and take responsibility for the consequence of my actions, and accept that I breached the code.”
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Nelson City Council CCTV video of an incident involving Nelson City Councillor Tim Skinner and protester Anne Smith outside Civic House. After the police investigation, Reese said she would be initiating a code of conduct complaint over Skinner’s behaviour and issued a public apology to Smith. Dressed in pink at her protest site outside Civic House, Smith on Friday said she had subsequently received an invitation from Reese “for her to apologise, but she doesn t need to apologise – she just needs to act”. Smith said she had received no information directly about the code of conduct investigation “only what I’ve read in the paper”.
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