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A young LGBTQ rights activist who was filmed punching a 71-year-old woman in the head during the heated Posie Parker counter-protest in Auckland this year has pleaded guilty to assault.
A young male activist. They just can’t stop themselves trying to defend the aggressors and accuse the victims when it comes to trans ideology, can they. It’s a young man who punched an elderly woman in the head, and that fact belongs in the lede.
The victim, who did not attend today’s hearing, told the Herald she was pleased to hear about the guilty plea.
“I am feeling very good today,” said the grandmother of six, who suffered a concussion and facial bruising as a result of the attack. “I’m glad he has pleaded guilty. That made me feel a lot better.”
A young man’s fist did that.
“About 11am an unknown person began pulling out pegs placed in the ground to separate the two groups,” police noted in the summary of facts for the case. “The group protesting against the speaker Posie Parker pushed over a metal fence and began approaching the group supporting her.
“The victim put her hands out to stop the group and made contact with a female from the opposing group, the same one that had been removing the pegs.”
The defendant approached the victim after noticing the physical contact, court documents state.
“The victim turned towards the defendant who responded by punching the victim three times in the head area,” police noted.
“In explanation, the defendant stated he believed the victim had assaulted a fellow protester and that the victim was going to assault him next.”
Did he also believe that she would cause him a lot of damage if she did “assault” him? So much damage that he needed to punch her in the eye three times with his youthful male fist?
Assault carries a maximum possible sentence of one year’s imprisonment. The man’s lawyer indicated today that she intends to seek a discharge without conviction. She also requested a referral for restorative justice, in which the defendant and the victim could meet in a controlled setting if the victim agreed.
The victim told the Herald today she is ready for the meeting.
“I want to meet up and have my say with him, but the thing which sticks in my craw is even before we have had that face-to-face restorative meeting his lawyer is making submissions for dismissal without conviction and permanent name suppression,” she said.
“He hasn’t said sorry and I feel the rights of victims are not upheld.
“It’s like the victim has totally been forgotten out of the justice system.”
The victim said she would look her attacker in the eye and ask him why he attacked an old lady who was not causing him any grief.
“I will let him have his say and then go from there,” she said.
Maybe she can persuade him to consider the possibility that women should have some rights too.
Weird that a random person’s sex is mentioned, but never the attacker. I suppose this is part of the name suppression – other items of identity are also suppressed, but it looks to me that this is the verbatim account from police.
How could he possibly believe he was next, when the footage shows him advancing on her and not the other way around? And if the twitter outing is accurate, we also need to bear in mind the man wrapped his fists and put on armour as part of his preparation.
“When we rushed at the group of women, a 71 year old female from among them put out her hands. I now know that she was just reflexively defending herself but at the time I thought it was a martial arts move and I therefore felt I had no other choice but to bash her repeatedly in the face.”
So many ways that adherence to the gender cult turns people’s brains to shit.
She should be refusing the restorative justice line (which is essentially a diversion) unless his lawyer drops her pleas for dismissal and name suppression. You really cannot have it both ways. The restorative process takes as a premise an acknowledgement of responsibility and a will to offer remedy.
Concussion and facial bruising and actually a broken eye socket, NZ Herald. Don’t pretend it’s just a bit of a bruise and a thing that anyone can just pretend to have. I did 30 years of playing-then-working with horses, I volunteered to be the crash test dummy for all the difficult ponies from the age of nine or ten and kept doing it until I broke something at 23, trying out a thuggish Irish Draught for my employer (the horse’s name was Tyson, we should have taken the hint). I’ve been bashed around the head, knocked over and trampled, launched head first into the ground and solid objects, and I have NEVER had a concussion. Not even that time my own horse lost his head and launched us both through a hedge, a barbed wire fence, and into a concrete post at high speed. The impact broke my hat and my cheek bone, but no concussion. My point is, you don’t get a concussion from a bit of a bump on the noggin, it takes real force.
(I guess you also need to have a brain to get a concussion, maybe that’s how I got away with it)