A Wellington train conductor removed a passenger caught levelling racial abuse at another person on Thursday.
The passenger, a young girl around 16, had been yelling at another passenger for speaking Hindi on a train headed from Wellington to Upper Hutt, RNZ reports.
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"[She was] saying 'go back to your country, don't speak that language here'," another passenger on the train told RNZ Checkpoint.
The train's conductor soon arrived on the scene and told the girl she had to get off. The girl refused so the conductor said she would call the police.
It took 20 minutes for the standoff to be resolved and the train to get moving again, but the passenger who spoke to Checkpoint said nobody on the train was upset it was stopped.
The conductor, known only as JJ, told RNZ she did what she thought was right.
"We don't put up with language like that, of any kind. We carry passengers to and from A to B, and we want our passengers to get there in a safe manner."
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