{"id":11791,"date":"2024-10-31T06:04:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T17:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11791"},"modified":"2024-10-31T06:04:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T17:04:06","slug":"police-officers-and-cabbies-attacked-in-brawl-at-palmerston-north-hospital-after-minor-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11791","title":{"rendered":"Police officers and cabbies attacked in brawl at Palmerston North hospital after minor crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two police officers and two cab drivers were attacked in a large brawl outside Palmerston North Hospital’s emergency department on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

A cab and another vehicle were involved in a minor collision on the hospital grounds this morning.<\/p>\n

The car’s occupants then attacked the cab driver, along with another cabbie who was nearby and became involved.<\/p>\n

Witnesses described the attackers as being gang members.<\/p>\n

Police were called and two officers arrived, but a witness said they were quickly overwhelmed by up to 14 people.<\/p>\n

The cab driver involved in the crash was taken to the emergency department and “hidden” from the attackers who were threatening to kill him.<\/p>\n

“There was shouting and swearing. It was violent and the police were beaten up,” the witness said.<\/p>\n

“Their police car was attacked too. It was frightening and disgraceful.”<\/p>\n

Six other police cars arrived soon after and the witness said officers deployed pepper spray and a taser to end the altercation.<\/p>\n

The government provided extra security to the highest risk hospital emergency departments over the summer as part of its 100 day plan, but the\u00a0number of round-the-clock security guards at some EDs<\/a>\u00a0was reduced in April this year.<\/p>\n

In response, police said they took one person into custody, but had no information about officers being attacked, or a taser and pepper spray being used.<\/p>\n

Te Whatu Ora said no one was hurt.<\/p>\n

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Two police officers and two cab drivers were attacked in a large brawl outside Palmerston North Hospital’s emergency department on Wednesday. A cab and another vehicle were involved in a minor collision on the hospital grounds this morning. The car’s occupants then attacked the cab driver, along with another cabbie who was nearby and became […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11793,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions\/11793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}