Conspiracy theorist and former TV host Liz Gunn has described her Auckland Airport arrest as "vicious".
On Saturday, Gunn and a cameraman had reportedly been attempting to film the arrival of a family who had been kept in lockdown in Tokelau after refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, according to Counterspin Media Facebook posts.
Police said they were called to Auckland International Airport at 7:15pm after a report of an assault.
Police did not name the pair, but confirmed the arrests of a 49-year-old man and a 63-year-old woman.
A police spokesperson said the pair had been trespassed from the airport and had been summonsed to appear in court at a later date in relation to the alleged assault, trespass, and resisting police.
Gunn told broadcaster Sean Plunket in a text about her "vicious" arrest, which he read live on-air on The Platform.
Gunn said she was "simply filming friends arriving" and claimed she was not verbally trespassed by Auckland Airport staff before police got involved.
Gunn said she was "less than half the size" of the man who arrested her.
"He charged in behind me, chest puffed out, tall, dead-eyed, robotic, soulless," she described in her text to Plunket.
She described the moment she was arrested as "vicious", making several references to both fascism and communism.
"It was as if we were in some communist Chinese camp to be ordered around and totally dehumanised for holding a camera," she said.
She claimed the officer responded "good" when she told him she was hurting her, and told Plunket she felt like her thumb was going to break during the arrest.
Auckland Airport requires all media to seek clearance before filming, however, Gunn claimed the rules did not apply to her.
"We make no regular income and are not a commercial enterprise, we do this mahi from love," she told Plunket.
Newshub approached police for comment on Gunn's latest comments, but they said they were "unable to comment on queries which name a specific individual".
