(610 AM WELLINGTON NEW ZEALAND TIME, 1210 AM EASTERN US TIME)
LIVE VIDEO FROM WELLINGTON NEW ZEALAND
The sound of a helicopter overhead at the Freedom Camp in Wellington, New Zealand as police, protesters and the mainstream mass in and around the barricades.
As daylight approaches police vans carrying reinforcements have been seen in the city.
Plenty of rumours the suggestion that tear gas is about to be used...
Sirens are being heard everywhere.
The New Zealand Herald reports large groups of police in the hundreds marching in the streets.
Shouts in the crowd of:
"Hold The Line"
Multiple videos can be seen in the live video link protesters trying to hold conversations with the police along the line right now.
Helmeted police seen in the front line...
Nothing new has been on the Telegram Channel but here is the link to open the Freedom Camp Telegram Channel...
LINK TO OPEN FREEDOMCAMPNZ2022 CHANNEL
AT 622 AM WELLINGTON TIME WEDNESDAY, 1222 PM TUESDAY EASTERN US TIME THE NEW ZEALAND POLICE ANNOUNCING THAT THE CROWD MUST DISPERSE OR FACE ARREST.
You can see the helmeted police holding up shields around the toilets located on Molesworth Street.
Police moving in from all directions advancing through the tents and on the grass.
Police continue to announce that people are facing arrest if they stay there or try to obstruct the police.
Police are trampling tents in the encampment as they move in on the protest.
Police told the mainstream media just after 6 am local time this morning that a:
"Pre-Planned Operation Is Underway"
TV One News reports that police are massing in large groups on either side of the protest.
(7 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING NEW ZEALAND, 1 PM TUESDAY EASTERN US TIME)
Police reported advancing on Molesworth Street pushing back protesters.
"The government are not here for the people"
The message coming from the live video stream right now. The person speaking wearing traditional Maori "face paint".
TV ONE NEWS REPORTS THAT PEPPER SPRAY IS BEING USED ON PROTESTERS.
THE COVERAGE OF NEW ZEALAND'S TV ONE VIA THEIR BLOG... NEW ZEALAND TV ONE LIVE BLOG
The "New Zealand Herald" says that tents have been dismantled by police at the National Library.
The police moving in large formations to break the protest up into pieces.
"Amazing Grace" the hymn playing on the loudspeakers of the protest right now.
From time to time you hear the shouts:
"Hold The Line"
The Opposition Leader of New Zealand, Christopher Luxon of the National Party, arrived at Parliament seeing the massing of police around 5 am this morning.
He said it's time for the protest to end then made this remark:
"This is a police operation...Government has no influence on police...This is police matter"
Mr. Luxon, known as a "religious conservative", washed his hands this morning it seems.
(145 PM EASTERN US TIME TUESDAY, 745 AM NEW ZEALAND TIME WEDNESDAY MORNING)
The police and protesters facing off plenty of drama in mainstream media at this moment talk about children being moved to front of the line at the protest opposite the police.
Heck real news or fake news regardless in Birmingham in 1963 five and six year old children marched right into Bull Connor's police lines on May 2, 1963.
Over on Molesworth Street a pushing against the police line as the police push.
It is now raining in Wellington.
You can see this live report that shows people being arrested among other things it was part of the TV One "AM" program....
(2 PM EASTERN US TIME TUESDAY, 8AM WEDNESDAY WELLINGTON TIME)
The struggle on the line with pepper spray used on protesters coughing heard on the video...
The police tearing down structures as they move through the protest camp.
Police are claiming a laser was pointed at their helicopter and that pitchforks and plywood are being used against them by protesters.
Protesters can be seen turning their backs to police to hold them back...
Police just got something sent their way a very hazy smoky scene for a moment...
Some protesters trying to stop those aggressive actions from whomever aimed at police...Provocateurs present, police undercover doing dirty work?
Its very clear, very clear from reporting by mainstream media that arrests have been made...
A very intense struggle seen on some of the video right now police and protesters on the line and hand to hand at times.
I saw someone spraying something in the direction of the police was it perfume on some substance to fog their face shields.
The police reinforcing their line multiple layers of police trying to push forward.
You can see the people hurt by the pepper spray in the video, the protesters getting attacked by police with pepper spray no doubt.
People knocked on the ground. It's real right now.
"Amazing Grace" again playing on the protest loudspeaker at 852 am Wednesday morning in Wellington as the struggle continues.
More in a few hours, the links are available a video stream and mainstream sources...
(5 PM EASTERN US TIME TUESDAY, 11 AM NEW ZEALAND TIME WEDNESDAY)
Police have arrested at least 60 people and are towing vehicles as they continue their assault on the Freedom Camp in New Zealand's capital city of Wellington.
Right now the protesters being confronted by a police line of riot shield bearing officers.
A link to the MSM spin....
NEW ZEALAND HERALD
More to come later...
(12 NOON WEDNESDAY NEW ZEALAND TIME, 6 PM TUESDAY EASTERN US TIME)
Police are in standoff mode right and New Zealand Police Commissioner Andrew Coster is claiming that people with bad motives outnumber peaceful protesters at this point. Coster speaking to the media minutes ago.
People in the protest area still in the hundreds and police perhaps waiting for them to choose to go home wait them out like police did in Ottawa recently. It's a rainy day it is summertime in New Zealand not the bitter wintry day we saw in Ottawa the other week.
(730 PM EASTERN US TIME TUESDAY, 130 PM WEDNESDAY NEW ZEALAND TIME)
It's a standoff in the rain right now videos have been posted in the last hour or so on the "FreedomCampNZ2022" Telegram channel.
22,152 NEW COVID CASES WEDNESDAY IN HEAVILY VACCINATED NEW ZEALAND EQUALING 1,506,366 PER DAY IN THE USA A LESS VACCINATED COUNTRY THAN NEW ZEALAND.
I DON'T BELIEVE THE LESS VACCINATED US EVER BY ANY METRIC RECORDED MORE THAN ROUGHLY 1,551,000 NEW COVID CASES IN A DAY.
(9 PM EASTERN US TIME TUESDAY, 3 PM NEW ZEALAND TIME WEDNESDAY)
Police remaining stationary facing protesters on Molesworth Street with a towing operation to remove vehicles now underway on other streets in the protest camp area.
The coalition of protest groups issued a news release earlier today saying police "indiscriminately used pepper spray in ways that are illegal."
This Breaking News post is shutting down so a new one can launch soon...
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