A woman who joined in an attack on strangers in the street and yelled "that's what you get for being white" has been sentenced to community work.
Kellie-Sierra Ramari Moses was in Drews Ave with friends when one of them began assaulting another person. Moses attacked that person's friend, the Whanganui District Court heard.
Defence lawyer Stephanie Burlace said the complainant's group had been "taunting" Moses' group. Moses didn't initially engage in the fight.
"Then the other person - her cousin, I think it was - had been, unsurprisingly, arrested by police," she said. While the cousin was lying handcuffed on the ground and the police officer's back was turned, Moses' victim kicked him in the head.
"That's when she jumped in and took matters into her own hands."