Around 100 or more teenagers were involved in a mass brawl in the Wellington suburb of Newtown. Witnesses to a mass brawl in a suburban Wellington street have talked of how a social media-publicised party turned to chaos with police using pepper spray and formation lines to quell the young crowd. Aaron Gittoes/Supplied About 35 police officers were called to a 100-person brawl in Stoke St, Newtown, on Saturday night. A couple of cans [got thrown] at police.”Police in a statement said they were called to Stoke St about 11pm to reports of disorder. Aaron Gittoes, who lives nearby, said there were a lot of drunk people at a party on the street.

Source: Stuff May 01, 2022 03:27 UTC