Controversial anti-trans campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull has been escorted away by police from a rally in New Zealand before she could speak after she was met by an angry crowd.
A small fight broke out as Keen-Minshull made her way through the barricade to speak to the crowds. She was escorted out again shortly before 11.30am, as crowds booed at her. She appeared to have been pelted by tomato soup.reporter at Albert Park said from the moment Keen-Minshull entered the barricade, tension between the groups, separated by a ring of barricades, started to boil over.
It took only a few more minutes before crowds managed to climb over and Keen-Minshull was surrounded on all sides.
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