A man who abused Muslims outside a Christchurch mosque where weeks earlier 42 people were slaughtered was lucky he didn't spark a violent reaction, a judge said today.
Wearing a Donald Trump T-shirt Daniel Nicholas Tuapawa was filmed causing an ugly scene outside Masjid Al Noor in central Christchurch on April 10 this year.
The "agitated and aggressive" 33-year-old labourer yelled that he is "sick of all these f***wits", "they need to f*** off" and "all Muslims are terrorists" before armed police who had been protecting the mosque since the March 15 terror attack gave him his marching orders.
Later that day, after complaints from the Muslim community and posts on social media, the police starting looking for Tuapawa.
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