New Zealand anti-vaccine mandate protests: police and photographer attacked

Jacinda Ardern says protests are not representative' of New Zealand as photographer harassed during Wellington protest

New Zealand's parliament is on high alert after thousands of anti-vaccination mandate protesters, some threatening violence, gathered in Wellington and across the country.

As of early Tuesday, about 2,000 people had gathered in central Wellington, and almost all the gates and entrance ways to parliament had been shut off. According to Stuff,the Speaker of the house, Trevor Mallard, said it was the biggest increase in parliamentary security he had seen since his election in 1984.