Shopkeepers Protest Outside Labour Locations Including Jacinda Ardern’s Mt Albert Electorate Office
November 28, 2022
PHOTO: NZ Herald photograph by Mark Mitchell
A protest outside Jacinda Ardern’s Mt Albert electorate office in Morningside has grown heated, with shopkeepers and community members in the streets holding signs reading “enough is enough” and calling for harsher penalties for those who commit retail crime.
Many dairies across the country have shut their stores today for two hours in protest at rising burglaries and in solidarity after 34-year-old Janak Patel died on the job in an alleged aggravated robbery at the Rose Cottage Superette in Sandringham.
An hour into the demonstration, the crowd spilled off the footpath and into the streets, as police tried to clear the road.
At 2pm, Auckland Transport warned commuters to avoid the Morningside area and to expect delays.