2 Nov 2021

AK councillor threatened over anti-vax violence

From First Up, 5:46 am on 2 November 2021

An Auckland Councillor has been advised not to attend events alone and to stop using her car because it has her face and name on it after she was threatened by three men outside a vaccination centre which had been vandalised the night before. Josephine Bartley, of the Maungakiekie-Tamaki Ward, visited Pasefika Family Health Group in Panmure on Sunday after its shopfront window was smashed. She posted a picture of herself in front of the broken glass on Facebook, saying "keep your anti vax violence to yourself please". She told our producer Matthew Theunissen that she'd just finished dropping off some food and speaking with staff at the clinic when she was threatened back at her car.