Source: Radio New Zealand
Video has been shared online of a mass brawl on Auckland’s Karangahape Rd last year.
Emergency services were called to the scene of the fight at 3.40am in late December, which police believed involved over 50 people.
Three men, aged 27, 33, and 46 were hospitalised with serious injuries.
Police charged a 21-year-old man with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, but had previously asked the public for information about two identified through CCTV.
In the video of what appeared to be the December brawl posted to social media, a group of men could be seen stomping and kicking another man as he lay motionless on the ground outside of the shops on Karangahape Rd.
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It panned quickly to show another man laying on the pavement as someone tried to pull him up.
The video then cuts to a man shirtless, standing with his fists up before another fight breaks out.
He was knocked to the ground and kicked repeatedly.
After a second cut, the video jumped to a number of people trying to break up the fight, getting in between those involved, as the shirtless man staggered away.
Small pools of blood could be seen on the pavement.
It wasn’t long until more fighting spilled onto the street.
The mass brawl involved over 50 people on Karangahape Rd in December, police said. SCREENSHOT
The video continued with more people knocked to the ground and screaming could be heard from onlookers.
Detective senior sergeant Martin Friend said police were aware of video clips being shared on social media.
He said no further arrests had been made.
Friend said they were still appealing for information around three assaults.
They wanted to hear from anyone with information about serious assaults on December 28, at roughly 4.15am outside Crown Bar on Queen St, 4.30am, on Cobden St just off Karangahape Rd, and about 5am, at the Mobil petrol station on the coroner of Karangahape and Ponsonby Rds.
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