Kate Hawkesby: Teens still getting away with thuggery, while PM rejects premise of question

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Aug 11, 2022 · 3m

I see the latest outburst of thuggery from our youth happened at a Palmerston North shopping mall.

30 teens ‘rampaged through it’, stealing, smashing things, throwing glass at staff, kicking them. Here’s the rub: they came back the next day bold as brass to skite about their performance and mock staff they'd abused.

Understandably, businesses are fearful.

As well as this group’s destructive spree through the place where they also threw chairs, they assaulted a young worker while other offenders cheered on.

Police took 20 minutes to arrive apparently, despite the station being two minutes from…