Who is Dezi Freeman? Porepunkah shooting suspect has association with ‘sovereign citizen’ ideas and called police ‘terrorist thugs’

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Dezi Freeman, the man suspected of shooting and killing two police officers and injuring a third at a rural property in Porepunkah, Victoria, said he had a history of unpleasant encounters with the force, who he called “terrorist thugs”, “frigging Nazis” and “Gestapo” that wore “the satanic symbol” of an “inverted pentagram” on their uniforms, according to court records.

Freeman also has a history of association with pseudolaw and “sovereign citizen” ideas.