Leanne Willis, mother of Madi, speaks on the NZ Police's actions against her daughter

Leanne Willis speaks about the traumatising experience of seeing her daughter Madi get violently manhandled and wrongfully arrested at the Parliament protest on February 10th 2022. Leanne was back in Auckland and only found out about Madi's arrest after seeing it on a Livestream. She feared for Madi's safety. The police told her nothing when she rang them, hoping to find information about Madi's whereabouts. She explains how the trauma of these events has had a hugely negative effect on both Madi and herself in the months since.

Leanne's Message For Jacinda is at 19:18.

Watch FreeNZ's full interview with Madi on our channel or here: https://youtu.be/Cb6fWcO9Mzg

Madi's story:
She had lost her job due to the mandates in New Zealand. Having been sitting peacefully on the frontline, yet with a quiet, steely resolve, the diminutive 21 yr old was violently pulled out by three members of the NZ police force, roughly manhandled and handcuffed incorrectly, with no care about her crying out in pain. She was taken to a cold, decrepit cell, and exposed to psychological torment in the form of intermittent loud banging on the cell door.
She was then let out after many hours, with no acceptable reason given for her arrest. The NZ Police forced her to sign her utterly disproportionate bail requirements under duress.