Revealed: Man who filmed himself arguing with cops is serial breacher
A gang member (pictured) who filmed himself arguing with police after being pulled over ‘on the way to the supermarket’ is a serial lockdown breacher
A gang member who filmed himself arguing with police after being pulled over ‘on the way to the supermarket’ is a serial lockdown breacher.
The gang member was being driven by an associate when they were stopped by police in a suburban street in New Zealand’s Northland last week.
The pair told police they were going to the supermarket but the police refused to believe them.
A heated debate was sparked when police seized the driver’s licence and continued to question the pair about where they were going.
The officers then insisted they escort the pair to the supermarket and home again to ensure they weren’t breaching the restrictions.
New Zealand is under strict level four lockdown rules in a bid to slow the spread of the deadly respiratory disease. Residents are banned from leaving their homes for anything but essential reasons, which includes food shopping, medical care and exercise.
Inspector Marty Ruth told Daily Mail Australia the patched gang member, who is known to police, has been caught breaking lockdown rules three times in the past four weeks.
On one occasion he was caught doing burnouts in public while on a suspended licence.
He has been spoken to by police on a number of occasions about breaching lockdown conditions and has been issued a warning.
‘In light of his previous behaviour, the officers made the decision to carry his licence on them while they followed him to the supermarket, to ensure he was indeed undertaking essential travel, where they would return his licence to him afterwards,’ Insp. Ruth said.
‘After waiting in line at the Supermarket for a short time the man and his driver left without purchasing anything.
‘Police have yet to locate the man’s associate to return his licence.’
In the footage, which was shared on Facebook, the pair can be heard accusing the officer’s of encouraging them to break the law by driving without a licence.
‘Do you want us to drive without a licence?’ the gang member can be heard asking.
The driver (pictured) and passenger were stopped by police in a suburban street in New Zealand last week. They claimed they were going to the supermarket but the police didn’t believe them
One of the officers responds, telling him it’s not an offence to drive without a licence but it is an offence to not be able to produce it.
‘So you’re telling us to break the law basically?’ the passenger asks.
‘Which supermarket are we going to? We’ll follow you there and we’ll follow you back to your home address,’ the other officer says.
The pair can then be heard laughing before they tell the officers they are making them not want to go shopping anymore.
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The officer then questions why they had had a change of heart when the passenger pulls out a shopping list.
The motorist is told he can either drive to the supermarket or he will be under arrest for a lockdown breach.
‘I’m going to the supermarket, but you won’t give us our licence,’ the passenger says.
A furious motorist has filmed the moment he got into a heated debate with police about where he was driving to during coronavirus lockdown
He then tries to reach for the licence but the officer refuses to hand it over.
The officer tells the pair they must go to the supermarket and then go home before handing it back.
The pair then accuse the officers of trying to make them break the rules before they get back into their car.
‘Hey you guys might want to get in your car so you can follow us to the supermarket,’ the passenger says.
The footage sparked a debate online after it was shared on Facebook.
Some social media users thought the police were being unreasonable and did not understand why the police were insisting they follow them to the supermarket.
‘What was the point in keeping their license if they were going to follow them. Muppets wasting time and energy,’ one person wrote.
The passenger pulled out a shopping list, which had butter, milk, flour, sugar, eggs and carrots on the list
‘Wow letting people drive without a licence?! That’s the first….’ another wrote.
However, a number of people thought the police were being fair.
‘How many people are driving around with shopping lists as an excuse to be out an about,’ one person wrote.
‘If you see how many people are breaching the lockdown rule and the bulls**t excuses that are being given to the police I can understand why they have been pulled up and questioned,’ another wrote.
‘Bro just go shopping, well done to the police for handling it they way they did,’ wrote another.
Police have been clamping down on people flouting coronavirus lockdown rules in recent weeks to reduce any risk of the virus spreading and help keep the community safe.
The tough restrictions will be eased on Monday next week, Hp Certification exams dropping from level four to level three.
The new rules mean people can expand their ‘immediate household bubble’ to ‘reconnect with close family’ or support isolated people.
Businesses in the construction, manufacturing and forestry industries can return to work, while shops and restaurants will remain shut but takeaways can resume.