"Do as we say or face the consequences."
WTF?
Did he really say that? In New Zealand?? How long before we start hearing "ze innnocent have nozink to fear"?
Maybe not the cleverest approach for a Police Force to take, when you're outnumbered and outgunned by several orders of magnitude, when the Government's dictate that people hand in their semi-automatics is unlawful, when your manifest incompetence is sticking out like a dog's proverbials, when people are pissed off to high heaven by the continual lies of your Association President, and when the convention of the country in which you do your Policing is that you Police only with, and by, the consent of the People.
Consequences work both ways, guys. Sometimes they involve pitchforks. Just saying.