Shane Te Pou says colonial statues should be removed

There are calls for statues of colonial figures to be taken down in New Zealand - as the Black Lives Matter movement sees statues around the world removed or under review. Protestors tore down and threw a statue of Christopher Columbus in a lake in Richmond, Virginia yesterday - just days after a statue of a slave trader in Bristol in the UK was toppled and dropped into a harbour. In other places, authorities have taken the move to remove statues - in Antwerp one of colonial Belgian King Leopold the second was taken down, while a London council removed one of a slave trader. But many have been calling for the removal of controversial statues for years, including Shane Te Pou who led an unsuccessful attempt to have the statue of Colonel Marmaduke George Nixon removed from Otahuhu in 2017. He joins us now.