"In 2014, Police Commissioner Mike Bush travelled to the Tūhoe community, and while not prepared to apologise for the investigation itself, he did express regret for the way police acted.
"Especially in respect to searches and detaining people that were unlawful, so we have apologised for that. Also just in the way we actually treated people with disrespect, particularly the innocent people, the young people - the tamariki and mokopuna," he said at the time.
Mr Teepa said he appreciated the police had tried hard to make amends, but his whānau didn't want an apology.
"We didn't want them in the home and we didn't want to meet with them, we didn't want to be part of what I cynically see as a public relations exercise where they were coming to seek forgiveness from Tūhoe.
"I don't know why they had to make such a big song and dance out of something that could've been a private affair," Mr Teepa said."
Since the raids, no one has ever been successfully charged and convicted under the Terrorism Suppression Act
That's not to say that nothing has ever happened, just that evidence was obtained illegally, perhaps?
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/341457/ten-years-on-from-the-urewera-raids
Since the raids, no one has ever been successfully charged and convicted under the Terrorism Suppression Act
That's not to say that nothing has ever happened, just that evidence was obtained illegally, perhaps?
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/341457/ten-years-on-from-the-urewera-raids
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