According to a report in Te Pou (The Post), both the ACT and NZ First parties have criticised police over the incident.

“If this report is true, this is ‘1984 thought-police’ level overreach,” NZ First leader Winston Peters said on social media on Thursday.

“It should seriously frighten every New Zealander who believes in freedom of speech. This is not about whether this particular post was offensive or not. There will always be personal responsibility and consequences for people voicing their opinions that are viewed by some as tasteless or gormless or offensive – but those consequences should not be by way of a police visit.”

ACT’s justice spokesman, Todd Stephenson, told The Post that “being offensive is not a crime, and it should not be a police matter”.

“New Zealanders do not want to see us go down the path of the UK, where police are knocking on doors and arresting people over social media posts that hurt someone’s feelings,” he said.

Police Minister Mark Mitchell said he wanted to understand more about why police intervened in the way they did: “I have asked police for more information.”

Comment from Pam Vernon’s Envirowatch NZ (incidentally, she is of Maori descent):-

This entire issue of course, is not the fault of Indian people per se. Draw back the layers and it is really about the policies of the controllers pulling their new world order strings behind the scenes. Hiding in the shadows. Ugly cowards that they are. The fact that they demand Police investigation for expressing opinion on social media illustrates their intent to intimidate and control. Illustrates that democracy is long gone and we have only the illusion of. And they themselves have created the situation in question here. It is by design.

They have always manipulated issues of race in each generation to suit their own agenda and end game. They consider themselves the elite remember. We are considered ‘useless eaters’. The racial (divide) card is their Ace card. They must divide people lest they wake up to the plan and unite against them. We far out number them. This woman here in the article is focusing on the Indian people. Our efforts however, are better directed at the manipulators. All peoples are of value and equal in the Creator’s sight. It is the manipulators who neither believe nor practise this. They have infiltrated governments world wide and are now in the controlling seats. Their intent is unbelievably evil, witness the recent genocide and the current coercion of all into ways and paths they instinctively know are not for our benefit at all. Smart cities, owning nothing, trapped in a 15 minute prison of travel, eating their lab grown trash. Beware their racial stirring and don’t fall for it. They are opening the floodgates world wide to immigration, not because they care about immigrants but because (among other things) their plan is to get rid of all nations’ sovereignty. One world government, new world order, a (not) great reset …. aka CONTROL. They want the planet to themselves and are busy hunkering down in bolt holes (here in NZ even) clearly expecting an apocalypse! ….