The owner of a new mall has apologised after security guards reportedly refused to let in Black Lives Matter protesters, even after the march on Sunday afternoon was finished.
AUT associate law professor Khylee Quince and her family were turned away at the door because they were carrying A3-sized signs, with guards telling them to "leave your politics at the door", Stuff reports.
Quince said after she posted about the incident on her Instagram account, Commercial Bay offered a "classic non-apology apology" and blamed the guards.
Scott Pritchard, chief executive of Commercial Bay owner Precinct Properties, told Stuff it was a "complete misunderstanding and perhaps miscommunication".
The guards were only meant to stop protesters coming through "for security reasons and safety reasons" - while they were protesting.
"There was no directive for our security people to not let people with signs.
"To ask someone to put their signs down for something they feel really strongly about is very regrettable and we've reached out to those people individually."
About 5000 people attended Sunday's march, the second held in the city this month in solidarity with demonstrators in the US angry at the police killing of unarmed African-American man George Floyd, and racism in general.
