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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-646/
- Published: 2022-09-27T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-09-27T04:45:46.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Crime, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48

> Considered one of the main faces of the protest, Baker told the Herald he was pleased the charges against him had been dropped, though he did not yet know why. \[…\]  
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> Baker said he didn’t commit any of the crimes he was accused of, saying the charge of resisting police was “bizarre”.  
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> **“I didn’t resist them one little bit.”**  
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> \[…\] “There was no criminal offending going on. Innocent people shouldn’t be charged.”  
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> Baker said when he was arrested there were about 30-40 other men in the holding cells who were about the same age as him.  
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> “I think only one of them had ever been in a holding cell before in their lives, so that just proves it was average Joes . . . to arrest that many in that situation, there’s something wrong.”  
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> NZ Herald

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