{"id":165,"date":"2025-08-08T10:50:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T22:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/?p=165"},"modified":"2025-08-08T11:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T23:42:31","slug":"new-zealand-police-shooting-coroner-rules-death-preventable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"NEW ZEALAND POLICE SHOOTING: CORONER RULES DEATH PREVENTABLE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police tactics in the fatal shooting of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/528437\/shargin-stephens-inquest-we-re-angry-about-the-way-they-portrayed-him-in-the-media\">Shargin Stephens<\/a>&nbsp;showed a disregard for the right to life, according to a scathing coroner&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A probationary officer in &#8220;a heightened emotional state&#8221; pushed his way past experienced officers and got &#8220;unnecessarily and dangerously close&#8221; to Stephens, who was holding a slasher after smashing up a police car, and shot him twice with an M4 rifle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/528145\/police-officer-decided-to-shoot-before-shargin-stephens-moved-toward-him-coroner\">Coroner Michael Robb ruled the death<\/a>, in July 2016, was preventable and his 207-page report painted a picture of police chaos on the day, including a lack of leadership and a failure to de-escalate the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read More&#8230;.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/in-depth\/569347\/police-shooting-coroner-rules-shargin-stephens-death-was-preventable\">https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/in-depth\/569347\/police-shooting-coroner-rules-shargin-stephens-death-was-preventable<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cops-1024x682.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cops-1024x682.webp 1024w, https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cops-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cops-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cops.webp 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police tactics in the fatal shooting of&nbsp;Shargin Stephens&nbsp;showed a disregard for the right to life, according to a scathing coroner&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}