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# Protesters of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/protesters-of-the-day/
- Published: 2024-05-05T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-05-05T05:28:00.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, Press Releases, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-06-28 02:24

> David Seymour says protesters who heckled him at an event on Saturday “didn’t do their cause any favours”.  
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> Video shared on TikTok shows protesters, with placards saying ‘Save Gaza’ and ‘Stop Killing Children’, as they interrupted the Minister of Regulation at a ribbon-cutting event for Hamilton’s new FIFO Supermarket on Saturday.  
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> The group, waving flags of Palestine, were chanting “Seymour, Seymour you can’t hide, you’re suppressing genocide” and “free, free Palestine”. One man did so with a megaphone.  
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> “I was honoured to be asked to open FIFO in Nawton, where locals have gone eight months without a supermarket. A handful of protesters with a megaphone tried to disrupt the event,” Seymour told Newshub.  
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> “They didn’t do their cause any favours by bothering the families and business owners who had gathered to celebrate a community bouncing back from crime.”  
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> It comes after protesters also took similar action outside Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters’ Auckland home.  
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> A group of about 30 protesters waved placards and shouted demands through a megaphone for about five minutes on Saturday, then slipped away before police turned up, according to the [NZ Herald](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/winston-peters-targeted-flashmob-style-after-dark-as-tactics-shift-in-palestine-protest-movement/ICACMOE4B5CE5M3JRN3QPTZ22E/?ref=goodoil.news).   
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> [Newshub](https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/05/protesters-interrupt-david-seymour-ribbon-cutting-event-at-hamilton-supermarket.html?ref=goodoil.news)

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