Nationwide protests attended by hundreds of people here over the weekend have drawn political condemnation for flouting level 2 rules, but there's little appetite for prosecutions.
Deputy Prime Minister and New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is pushing hard for the police to take action - saying the organisers were responsible for a large scale breach of the mass gatherings and physical distancing rules.
The view of many at Parliament is while the protests did fly in the face of the rules, they were motivated by passion and a frustration at what happened to George Floyd in the United States.
RNZ political editor, Jane Patterson, filed this report.
