Ryan Bridge: The stories about violence in New Zealand are infuriating

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Oct 30, 2024 · 1m · transcript

I'm getting really angry reading these stories about violence in New Zealand, and I don't think that harsher sentences are going to stop them.

I don't think that the gang patch ban is going to stop them, I don't think that wraparound services are going to stop them either.

I'm talking here about Palmerston North's emergency Department yesterday, daylight doctors are at work, nurses are there.

A cab driver has a minor accident with gang members in the hospital car park, gang members attack the cabbie, another cabbie comes to his rescue.

He gets beaten up, one of the cabbies gets taken into the…