It took just 3-4 minutes before every side of the barricade had collapsed and counter-protesters had made their way through to surround Keen-Minshull.

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No police could be seen inside where the barricades had stood, and less than 10 security guards worked to keep the crowd from overrunning the band rotunda.

It took only a few more minutes before crowds managed to climb over and Keen-Minshull was surrounded on all sides.

A group of four security guards formed a human shield around her for 10 minutes as the crowd slowly pressed forward.

Fights continued to break out in the crowd, as they ripped down the last fence that was protecting Keen-Minshull from behind.

It was then that security made a rush with her through the crowd to get her out of the park.

Protester Eliana Rubashkyn told 1News she had dropped a “litre of juice” on the controversial speaker because it represented the blood of “our people”.

“I want her to know that her words are blood.”

In a livestream on Keen-Minshull’s YouTube channel, it appeared she was being escorted away from the park in a police car. In the police car, an officer asked if she had any injuries. Keen-Minshull said she had food in her hair and “just grave fears for this place”.

Keen-Minshull asked the officer if she could be taken to the police station.

“Do you think it’ll be worse in Wellington? Maybe it’s time to say we can’t do it.”

Keen-Minshull had planned speaking engagements in Auckland and Wellington as part of her Let Women Speak tour.