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# Police confiscate boy’s boxing shirt over gang insignia concerns
- URL: https://goodoil.news/police-confiscate-boys-boxing-shirt-over-gang-insignia-concerns/
- Published: 2024-12-27T21:20:04.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-29T21:15:54.000Z
- Description: “It’s like carrying the power on my back.”
- Author: Centrist
- Tags: News

Summarised by [Centrist](http://centrist.nz/?ref=goodoil.news)

A 12-year-old in Mt Wellington was stopped by police on Christmas Day for wearing a boxing gym shirt featuring a logo resembling Black Power’s insignia. Officers claimed the shirt breached NZ’s gang patch ban, confiscating it despite the boy’s insistence it was a uniform. “It’s like carrying the power on my back,” he said. The gym denied any gang affiliation, sparking misuse-of-law concerns.

[**Read more over at 1News**](https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/12/27/twelve-year-old-stopped-by-police-for-wearing-a-boxing-club-shirt/?utm%5Fsource=Klaviyo&utm%5Fmedium=email&%5Fkx=7CPPoTJZLMaHJf6o69T1dw.VYfxNg)

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