The protest on parliament's lawn in New Zealand was another place where the police have been used as the face of the government and given, protesters, rioters, criminals and anybody else who has nothing better to do with their time, the opportunity to take their anger out on the people who joined the police to protect them.  Did the police do a good job.  Bloody oath they did, and they did it without the tools, equipment and training that would have better equipped them.  Those failures are the responsibility of this and the other government's before them who all did their best to satisfy the minority at the expense of keeping the  majority safe.