Police are under the microscope after potentially misusing a new gang patch ban law when a 12-year-old boy was questioned on Christmas Day for wearing a boxing gym t-shirt, featuring elements of the Black Power logo.

Officers confiscated the shirt which had the the Kia Kaha Boxing Club logo with a fist on it and detained the boy. 

Kia Kaha boxing club member and the Secretary of Counties Manukau Boxing Association Josh Chellatamby talks to Tim Beveridge. 

LISTEN ABOVE. 

Police are under the microscope after potentially misusing a new gang patch ban law when a 12-year-old boy was questioned on Christmas Day for wearing a boxing gym t-shirt, featuring elements of the Black Power logo.
Officers confiscated the shirt which had the the Kia Kaha Boxing Club logo with a fist on it and detained the boy.&nbsp;
Kia Kaha boxing club member and the Secretary of Counties Manukau Boxing Association Josh Chellatamby talks to Tim Beveridge.&nbsp;
LISTEN ABOVE.&nbsp;

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Josh Chellatamby: Kia Kaha boxing club member on the detainment of a 12-year-old boy under new gang patch law

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