Green Party co-leader James Shaw left with black eye after unprovoked attack

14/03/2019 18 min
Green Party co-leader James Shaw left with black eye after unprovoked attack

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Greens co-leader James Shaw is "shaken" after being injured in a violent attack on his way to Parliament this morning.Shaw was punched in the face in an apparently unprovoked attack as he walked to work through central Wellington.A party spokesperson says Shaw was confronted by a man who stepped out, spoke to him and identified him then hit him in the head.Shaw suffered a black eye in the attack. Thankfully two passers-by came to Shaw's aid. And there are fears support for the disabled is being quietly cut person by person after the Ministry of Health backed down on sector-wide funding changes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.