A woman says she was shocked by an attack that saw a group of youths throw a firework at her from their car while she was jogging and called her a racist name.
The youths yelled "blackie" as they hurled the firework at her.
It missed her and she said she was grateful she, rather than a child or an elderly person, had been the target but it was upsetting.
The woman, who didn't want to be identified, said she was running along Old Quarry Rd in Rotorua's Western Heights suburb when an old model stationwagon filled with teenage boys went by. The occupants verbally abused her and a lit firework, which she described as small but loud, whizzed past, narrowly missing her.
"I just heard something and I saw the firework whizz past me," she said. "They wound down the window and yelled and threw it out.
