Australia, ongoing for the last ten hours: Two Victoria State police are dead, a third wounded, and a manhunt underway in Porepunkah, rural Australia. Looks like a team of police were serving a warrant for some sort of historical sex offence on a known Sovereign Citizen type, one Dezi Freeman. Freeman has considerable history with police, courts etc for Sovereign Citizen ideology.
Local communities have been asked to stay indoors and follow police advice as the search for the gunman continues into the night.
www.abc.net.au
It sounds like he’s an experienced bushman and may have moved off his property and up towards Buffalo Mountain. Victoria state police have basically everything on scene and have a well established tactical team, but this will be challenging.
The Aussies have a huge problem with these SovCit types- it’s enough of a coherent and violent ideology that I picked this thread for it. This event is reminiscent of a similar ambush two and a half years ago that cost the lives of two Queensland police.
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My thoughts are with our Aussie colleagues and I hope they can bring a safe and swift end to this.