A man who yelled at police officers and challenged them to a street fight has been ordered to do a dose of community work.
Mattisse Jackson was sentenced by Judge Garry Barkle in Whanganui District Court to 120 hours of community work for disorderly behaviour and ordered to pay a police officer $500 in emotional harm reparation.
At 6.30pm on July 3, police were called to a Whanganui address where Jackson had become intoxicated, police prosecutor Stephen Butler told the court.
"The defendant became involved in a heated argument with an associate at the address. This argument escalated and became physical," Butler said.
During the tussle between the two, a glass window was smashed at the property before police arrived.