Police target us, claim Africans

New Zealand’s African minorities — many welcomed here as refugees — claim the police are targeting them unfairly and sometimes in a racist manner. Young Africans have told AUT researcher Dr Camille Nakhid that police have stopped them on the streets or in cars for no apparent reason except their colour, beaten them, called them “n*****s”, told them to “go back to your country” and even told them to go back to Mt Roskill when they visited the North Shore.