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WELLINGTON: 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 the "Freedom Convoy" of truckers in Canada - have been camped on the lawns of parliament for a week, ignoring appeals from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday (Feb 14) 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.
New Zealand cops blast use of Barry Manilow songs to clear protesters
WELLINGTON: 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 -
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Those are some pretty cruel tactics let me tell you
