{"id":44819,"date":"2025-08-28T15:15:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/police-hunt-australian-man-believed-to-be-radicalized-well-armed-conspiracy-theorist-who-killed-2-officers\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:15:33","slug":"police-hunt-australian-man-believed-to-be-radicalized-well-armed-conspiracy-theorist-who-killed-2-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/police-hunt-australian-man-believed-to-be-radicalized-well-armed-conspiracy-theorist-who-killed-2-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Police hunt Australian man believed to be radicalized, well-armed conspiracy theorist who killed 2 officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Porepunkah, Australia<\/em> \u2014 Australian police said Thursday they will not rest until they catch a 56-year-old <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/police-officers-murdered-cold-blood-australia-manhunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">gunman who fled into the bush<\/a><\/span> two days earlier after allegedly killing two officers. Detectives said they were speaking to the man&#8217;s partner and searching rugged, forested terrain near the small town of Porepunkah, in the northeast of Victoria state.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The suspect, identified by police as Dezi Freeman, escaped on foot after opening fire when a team of 10 police arrived at his property on Tuesday, allegedly killing two policemen and wounding a third.<\/p>\n<p> Police say the man \u2014 described by local media as a radicalized conspiracy theorist \u2014 is heavily armed, has bush survival skills and knows the area well.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We will not rest until we apprehend the offender,&#8221; said Russell Barrett, Victoria police deputy commissioner for regional operations.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/28\/ec6953ce-f64e-439a-821f-a16ff4bbc52a\/thumbnail\/620x370\/fea80e78ec50bf4b0c74014aa7ea264c\/australia-manhunt-2232457737.jpg#\" alt=\"Porepunkah police shooting, Victoria, 2025 \" height=\"370\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/28\/ec6953ce-f64e-439a-821f-a16ff4bbc52a\/thumbnail\/620x370\/fea80e78ec50bf4b0c74014aa7ea264c\/australia-manhunt-2232457737.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/28\/ec6953ce-f64e-439a-821f-a16ff4bbc52a\/thumbnail\/1240x740\/1318c3bec7050f1a6373def2a07cbb37\/australia-manhunt-2232457737.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Police search a property in Porepunkah, in the southeast of Australia&#8217;s Victoria state, Aug. 27, 2025, a day after a man fled into the woods after allegedly fatally shooting two police officers attempting to execute a search warrant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Joe Armao\/The Age\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Police were in contact with the man&#8217;s partner, had searched a number of properties, and believed he was still in the area, Barrett said.<\/p>\n<p> But &#8220;we&#8217;ve had no confirmed sightings,&#8221; he told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p> Anyone harboring the man would be prosecuted for committing a criminal offense, Barrett warned.<\/p>\n<p> Police said they were moving carefully through the bush, and warned people not to travel into the surrounding alpine area to go skiing.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It is really difficult terrain. It is complex terrain,&#8221; Victoria police superintendent Brett Kahan said.<\/p>\n<p> Police say the shooting happened in a matter of minutes when they descended on the man&#8217;s property on Tuesday morning to execute a search warrant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/26\/78fb9fac-c560-4385-a1d4-1fe71600ca05\/thumbnail\/620x414\/70d5fc5428896f4c8b24e33a8f3a626d\/ap25238159709537.jpg#\" alt=\"Australia Police Shooting \" height=\"414\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/26\/78fb9fac-c560-4385-a1d4-1fe71600ca05\/thumbnail\/620x414\/70d5fc5428896f4c8b24e33a8f3a626d\/ap25238159709537.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/26\/78fb9fac-c560-4385-a1d4-1fe71600ca05\/thumbnail\/1240x828\/481ced57adfb2b256bd9644df0367a70\/ap25238159709537.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Police wait near the scene of a shooting in the high country of Porepunkah in the state of Victoria, Australia, Aug. 26, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Simon Dallinger\/AAP Image\/AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Police fired at the suspect but apparently did not wound him, they said.<\/p>\n<p> The shootout resulted in the deaths of 59-year-old detective Neal Thompson and 35-year-old senior constable Vadim De Waart.<\/p>\n<p> Police say the wounded officer has undergone surgery and is expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p> Australia&#8217;s The Age newspaper said Freeman was a self-professed &#8220;sovereign citizen,&#8221; referring to a movement whose adherents falsely believe they are not subject to laws passed by the government.<\/p>\n<p> Police have not commented on those reports.<\/p>\n<p> While fighting a speeding penalty in a Melbourne court last year, Freeman referred to police as &#8220;frigging Nazis,&#8221; &#8220;Gestapo,&#8221; and &#8220;terrorist thugs,&#8221; according to a copy of the judge&#8217;s ruling. \u00a0Freeman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/austlii.edu.au\/cgi-bin\/viewdoc\/au\/cases\/vic\/VSC\/2024\/682.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told the court<\/a>\u00a0that &#8220;even the sight of a cop or a cop car\u2026 it&#8217;s like an Auschwitz survivor seeing a Nazi soldier,&#8221; according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/victoria\/victoria-police-shooting-live-updates-one-officer-shot-and-two-others-missing-after-ambush-in-high-country-20250826-p5mpwv.html?post=p595ns#p595ns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Australia&#8217;s gun laws and recent history of shootings<\/h2>\n<p>Deadly shootings are relatively rare in Australia, and police fatalities even rarer. The latest deaths listed in a national memorial to fallen police showed three officers were killed on duty in separate incidents in 2023, including one by gunshot.<\/p>\n<p> In December 2022, four police arrived at a tree-lined property near small Queensland town of Wieambilla and came under fire from the family living there.<\/p>\n<p> Six people were killed in that incident, including two police officers. Police later blamed the family&#8217;s fundamentalist Christian beliefs for what was termed a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p> A ban on automatic and semi-automatic weapons has been in place in Australia since a 1996 mass shooting in Port Arthur, Tasmania, in which a lone gunman killed 35 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then-newly-elected Prime Minister John Howard, a conservative and close friend of George W. Bush, pushed through the sweeping gun control legislation just 12 days after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hardest things to do in politics often involve taking away rights and privileges from your own supporters,&#8221; Howard CBS News&#8217; Seth Doane in a 2022 interview, looking back at the landmark legislation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-video embed--type-content_video is-video embed--float-left embed--size-medium\"><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/what-can-australia-teach-us-about-mass-shootings\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__icon\"><br \/>\n            <svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n              <use xlink:href=\"#icon-video\"\/>\n            <\/svg><br \/>\n          <\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__headline\">What can Australia teach us about mass shootings?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__video-duration\">06:54<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The new laws banned the sale and importation of all automatic and semi-automatic rifles and shotguns; forced people to present a legitimate reason, and wait 28 days, to buy a firearm; and \u2014 perhaps most significantly \u2014 called for a massive, mandatory gun-buyback. Australia&#8217;s government confiscated and destroyed close to 700,000 firearms, reducing the number of gun-owning households by half.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People used to say to me, &#8216;You violated my human rights by taking away my gun,'&#8221; Howard recalled. &#8220;And I&#8217;d tell them: &#8216;I understand that. Will you please understand the argument, the greatest human right of all is to live a safe life without fear of random murder?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/australia-manhunt-police-shooting-radicalized-anti-government-conspiracy-theorist\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porepunkah, Australia \u2014 Australian police said Thursday they will not rest until they catch a 56-year-old gunman who fled into<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[473,1985,6659,2690,1735,458,788],"class_list":["post-44819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-australia","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-extremism","tag-gun","tag-gun-laws","tag-murder","tag-police-shooting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Police hunt Australian man believed to be radicalized, well-armed conspiracy theorist who killed 2 officers - World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Australian police are hunting for a man accused of killing 2 of their own. 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