Hat tip to Zeb Jackson, a citizen journalist, who has her own youtube site. https://youtube.com/@zebjacksonlive
Phil was a protester at the Wellington protest in March 2022. He was was eye gouged by the police in an unprovoked attack. Video footage shows this very clearly.
The police laid four charges against him, and delayed any proceedings for 9 months (this is standard procedure by the police to ‘punish’ the person). This left Phil with a lot of stress and no ability to get a job, because most employers do check criminal records and it shows up right at the top of the criminal record check as ‘under charges’
The charges were quietly dropped last week with no contact from the police, and no apology. (His lawyer had to tell him)
A complaint has since been laid with the PCA (Police Complaints Authority)
They have been trying to delay or sideline his complaint by organising/cancelling meetings (they didn’t want to interview him with a support person present), and then they just sat on it, until he put an OIA request in to find out whats happening.
The video below is an indepth interview that is 25 minutes long. It gives a good overview of the tactics that have been used against Phil, and others in his predicament.
The police are typically dropping the charges against the protesters after 9 months, which generally indicates there was never a sound case in the first place.
The actual assault footage is at the 1 minute mark.
Some photo’s are below to show what it was actually like at the protest. (I was there for several days)
I’ve found that most people have no concept of what it was like to be there. The best way I can describe it is that it was like been at a very large market or concert.
We were all there for a common cause, and it didn’t matter who you spoke to whether they were young/old/male/female/ french/Maori, whatever. We all had a mutual respect for each other, and we were all there for the same reasons.
Uncoffined 
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