THEY'RE UNLEASHING THE BIG GUNS ON THE PROTESTERS NOW!!!
WELLINGTON (AFP) – Efforts to clear New Zealand anti-vaccine protesters by blasting Barry Manilow songs on a loop have drawn criticism from police officers caught in the crossfire.
Hundreds of demonstrators – inspired by truckers in Canada – have been camped on the lawns of Parliament for a week, ignoring appeals from Jacinda Ardern to “go home, and take your children.”
Attempts to move the protesters over the weekend included dousing them with sprinklers and pummelling them with sickly sweet pop tracks such as “Baby Shark” “Macarena” and Manilow’s “Mandy.”
Wellington police chief Superintendent Corrie Parnell was unamused at the tongue-in-cheek tactics deployed by Parliament officials, which appear to have steeled demonstrators’ determination not to move.