Police should butt out

The Post reports:

Police Minister Mark Mitchell says he “wants to understand” why police contacted a New Zealand woman over a Facebook post and has asked them about it.

His comments come as both ACT and NZ First have weighed into the debate over the visit and argued police should not have been involved.

The post from Renee-Rose Schwenke featured herself with two men of South Asian appearance in what appears to be a public place, alongside the caption “Welcome to New India thanks to Luxsingh” – seemingly a reference to the India Free Trade Agreement, recently signed by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.

“No to mass immigration invasion!” she wrote alongside the post.

Schwenke told The Post police rang her household and sought to visit her there. She was not keen for this so organised to meet the police at a local station instead.

What she wrote is political speech. It is dumb and stupid political speech, but it is a million miles from being criminal.

The Police should not be contacting her in any way over what she wrote. Good to see the Minister agrees, and the Police have said they shouldn’t have contacted her.