Counter-protesters - including one armed with a bottle of tomato juice - have seen British anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull aborting her central Auckland rally. Video / NZ Herald
Police have charged a 20-year-old man with assault after an elderly woman was punched in the head during the Posie Parker counter-protest late last month.
Footage circulating on social media from the event showed a heated meeting of the two groups in Albert Park in central Auckland. A man canbe seen striking a woman at least twice in the face.
Police said they could not provide any more information while the matter was before the court.
The charge comes nearly a month after British anti-transgender rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, self-described as a women’s rights activist and also known as Posie Parker, had to abort her two-event New Zealand tour when her planned speech in Albert Park was drowned out by counter-protesters.
Keen-Minshull also had tomato juice poured on her by a protester after she walked on stage at the park’s rotunda. She was later escorted away from Albert Park by police as the atmosphere became heated, a video filmed and posted by Keen-Minshull showed.
Her presence in New Zealand was highly controversial. Before her arrival, an online petition was launched calling for Keen-Minshull to be kept out of the country.
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