‘Gang members’ brawl outside Auckland swimming pool

A man was repeatedly kicked in the head while he lay on the ground as two rival gangs brawled outside a public swimming pool.

Two groups, believed to be the Crips and Bloods, were seen squaring up outside the Massey Park pool in Papakura, south of Auckland.

After facing off for several seconds on either side of the car park as families walked past, a man yelled ‘one outs’, a Kiwi invitation to fight, and they moved in.

A man was repeatedly kicked in the head while he lay on the ground as two rival gangs brawled outside a public swimming pool

A pair of fighters traded blows until a man in a red shirt hit him in the side of the head, sending him crashing to the concrete.

He was then repeatedly kicked, punched, and stomped in the head as a dozen others fought around them and more joined the fray.

Onlookers screamed and cheered on the fighters with some yelling ‘f**k them up’.

A few young women appeared to be trying to break up the fight and defend the fallen man, but were ignored by the combatants.

Finally police arrived to break up the carnage, deploying pepper spray almost as soon as they ran in, sending the gangs fleeing.

One of the officers managed to run into a cloud of his own pepper spray and was seen clutching his face, along with one of the well-meaning girls.

He was repeatedly kicked, punched, and stomped in the head as a dozen others fought around them and more joined the fray

He was repeatedly kicked, punched, and stomped in the head as a dozen others fought around them and more joined the fray

Police arrived and used pepper spray to send the fighters fleeing, but one of the officers managed to run into a cloud of his own spray and was seen clutching his face

Police arrived and used pepper spray to send the fighters fleeing, but one of the officers managed to run into a cloud of his own spray and was seen clutching his face

Police said if the six officers hadn’t arrived when they did, the man on the ground could have been killed.

No one was arrested at the scene but police believed they got a good look at those involved and expected to track them down.

‘The idiot with his shirt off did the cowardly act of kicking someone in the head which is of most concern to us, that’s what leads to homicide,’ Inspector Dave Glossop said.

The brawlers wore the red and blue colours of the two gangs, but he said it wouldn’t be clear if they were members until they were caught.



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