Meanwhile, police established a process code-named Operation Whakahaumanu to identify individuals who may have been holding extremist views and presented security risks to New Zealanders. On March 17, 2019, two days after the attack, Mr X became a person of interest after he posted a recording on social media where he described witnessing the shooter’s behaviour at a gun club. In the recording he said he was so concerned about what he had observed that he warned police about activity, but police failed to act on his warning. Following his post, a detective contacted him and requested an interview about his knowledge of the gun club and shooter.
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The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found police acted illegally when they took photographs of a woman detained at a roadside checkpoint.
The checkpoint was set up on November 2019 in Ruakākā down the road from a fight night event which was attended by some gang members.
The woman, who was not affiliated with any gang, alleged the checkpoint racially targeted the predominantly Māori attendees.
The authority, Judge Colin Doherty, says while the initial stop was lawful, the woman was arbitrarily and unlawfully detained at the point police required her to pull over to the side of the road for intelligence gathering purposes.
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