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Police brutality. 8 February 2011
Date: 2011
From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0017114
Description: Two men sit in a bar over a beer and watch the news on television showing crowds of Egyptian people demonstrating against President Mubarak. One of them says 'police brutality' was one of the factors that started the protests and the other expresses relief that New Zealand doesn't have that problem. But the first man watches a policeman being attacked through the window and says 'sadly, in a way, we kinda do!' Context - the popular uprising in Egypt aimed at overthrowing Mubarak and initiating democratic elections and in New Zealand several attacks against individual police personel in recent months. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Hubbard, James, 1949-:[Ureweras]. 27 May 2013
Date: 2013
From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons
By: Setford News Photo Agency
Reference: DCDL-0025057
Description: Shows a policeman in riot gear with gun, a Maori with tattoos and headband with Maori designs, also holding a gun with rounds of ammunition around his body. He says "How dare you cops come and scare the hell out of our small New Zealand community with your guns and paraphernalia". Context is Urewera Raids in 2007 and the Independent Police Authority report, released May 2013 into the Urewera raids which found police "unnecessarily frightened and intimidated" families in Ruatoki. (Stuff.co.nz 22/05/13) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Doyle, Martin, 1956- :When Tasers backfire. 10 October 2014
Date: 2014
From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons
By: Scoop (Firm)
Reference: DCDL-0029593
Description: Accompanying note from cartoonist states 'The bizarre case of the cops in Timaru exposed as liars by the camera on their own Taser gun is something filmmakers [and cartoonists!] can normally only dream of.' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).