This is a poster from New Zealand’s most infamous concert. 10,000 people turned up and it turned ugly. Six million dollars worth of damage was done in two hours. At the time, the Police blamed Dave Dobbyn. Truth was, after the 1981 Springbok tour the Auckland Police had adopted an it’s “us against them bastards” altitude. Any pub or club goer at time would have had at least one story of bad Police behaviour to tell. The riot was a reaction to three years of heavy handed policing not Dave Dobbyn's remakes. After the Commission of Inquiry into the riot Police training methods were changed.
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