Porepunkah shooting: Two officers dead and another wounded after shooting at High Country property, Victoria, Australia

[Trooper]

What would Walter Mitty do?....Dez lived his life pretending to be exactly what he was not.....I have visions of him delving into his stash of disguises and uniforms and suddenly appearing as a lycra covered middleaged gent on a long bike ride, needing a lift to base., cleats scraping the ground , sweat dripping down his face, tapping his wristclock for times and heartbeats.....

or he'll turn up in Beechworth as a travelling priest, taking over Wednesdays Mens Prayer night , dispensing blessings and punishments, organising baptisms, counselling the ladies on marriage expectations..... all the usual guff.

 

[Rocket333]

in a bus parked ( or growing into ) on a slab of ground, in the acreage of a remote farmhouse... a bus that she was lolling about in when these two coppers were shot .

Thanks Troops - I’m catching up. So the whole family was living in a bunker on wheels on a slab on someones property, during a brutal Winter, like a scene out of a depressing dystopian novel.

I was close to giving Mali the benefit of the doubt. Vulnerable migrant woman & mother tethered to a nutter and unable to escape etcetera. Now I’m with the local priest. They are all “absolutely cracked”.

 

[Trooper]

Thanks Troops - I’m catching up. So the whole family was living in a bunker on wheels on a slab on someones property, during a brutal Winter, like a scene out of a depressing dystopian novel.

I was close to giving Mali the benefit of the doubt. Vulnerable migrant woman & mother tethered to a nutter and unable to escape etcetera. Now I’m with the local priest. They are all “absolutely cracked”.

Real bushmen do not live in old buses, Rocketo , They construct dugouts, like Coober Pedy or bush houses, like in Ulladulla, or they whip up a mudbrick edifice , they don't cram themselves and a wife and a baby and a kid and a teenager in to an old bus. ... Bushmen do things, they don't go round sexually assaulting children generally speaking. they don't have the time!!

 

[Rocket333]

What would Walter Mitty do?....Dez lived his life pretending to be exactly what he was not.....I have visions of him delving into his stash of disguises and uniforms and suddenly appearing as a lycra covered middleaged gent on a long bike ride, needing a lift to base., cleats scraping the ground , sweat dripping down his face, tapping his wristclock for times and heartbeats.....

or he'll turn up in Beechworth as a travelling priest, taking over Wednesdays Mens Prayer night , dispensing blessings and punishments, organising baptisms, counselling the ladies on marriage expectations..... all the usual guff.

Haha yeah, ideological theatre. A man who couldn’t live within the system, so he built a stage outside it and cast himself as every lead. And now he's playing the only part left - the armed & dangerous lead in Australia’s most wanted fugitive. Nothing really sovereign about any of it is there?

 

[Rocket333]

Haha yeah, ideological theatre. A man who couldn’t live within the system, so he built a stage outside it and cast himself as every lead. And now he's playing the only part left - the armed & dangerous lead in Australia’s most wanted fugitive. Nothing really sovereign about any of it is there?

ps Mitty wouldn't shoot anyone.

 

[Marg944]

It was Stephen Mallett who was arrested.


“A survivalist prepper arrested during the manhunt for Dezi Freeman claims he has absolutely no connection to the accused cop killer.

Self-described outlaw biker and sovereign citizen Stephen Mallett, 61, claimed more than 10 tactical officers trained their guns on him during his arrest on Friday night.

It's understood police questioned Mr Mallett, who, like Dezi, is part of the sovereign citizen movement, at Bright Police Station about his connection with Freeman.

Victoria Police provided an update on Sunday to reveal Mr Mallett had been charged with possessing a prohibited imitation firearm and possessing a drug of dependence.

In an exclusive interview with Daily Mail on Sunday morning in Bright's main street, he insisted police had made a mistake about his supposed association with Freeman.

Mr Mallett said Freeman was a member of a preppers group he had created on Facebook, but that's as far as their relationship went.

'I've don't even know the c***. I've never even seen him,' he said.

'Everyone around here from Bright to Myrtleford knows him. Why [arrest] me? Have they done their homework and found out I'm an excellent bushman too? So what?'

While he shares Freeman's survivalist interests, and is himself no fan of police, Mr Mallett insisted he did not condone him allegedly murdering the officers.

He described Freeman as a 'd***head'.

A shellshocked Mr Mallett recounted the dramatic moment he was arrested at his home amid a thunderstorm on Friday night.

'It was howling with rain and I heard the "whoop!" (of a police siren), and when I opened my door more than 10 little laser dots were on me,' he said.

'There were automatic weapons trained on me, they were ready to shoot, and a big black tank in the driveway.

'They made me crawl on my hands and knees through the pouring rain, and when I got to the gutter, which had six inches of water in it, they said, "Now lay on your face and drag yourself through it".

'I looked up and saw they had their fingers on the trigger.


He has been charged with being a prohibited person possessing an imitation firearm and possessing a drug of dependence.

He was bailed to appear before Myrtleford Magistrate's Court on October 3.

Mr Mallett makes and sells wooden knives, and says he has an American civil war replica Colt .45 gun.”

Man arrested during Dezi Freeman manhunt erupts at alleged cop killer

Self-described outlaw biker and sovereign citizen Stephen Mallett, 61, erupted when confronted about his arrest.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Rocket333]

It was Stephen Mallett who was arrested.


“A survivalist prepper arrested during the manhunt for Dezi Freeman claims he has absolutely no connection to the accused cop killer.

Self-described outlaw biker and sovereign citizen Stephen Mallett, 61, claimed more than 10 tactical officers trained their guns on him during his arrest on Friday night.

It's understood police questioned Mr Mallett, who, like Dezi, is part of the sovereign citizen movement, at Bright Police Station about his connection with Freeman.

Victoria Police provided an update on Sunday to reveal Mr Mallett had been charged with possessing a prohibited imitation firearm and possessing a drug of dependence.

In an exclusive interview with Daily Mail on Sunday morning in Bright's main street, he insisted police had made a mistake about his supposed association with Freeman.

Mr Mallett said Freeman was a member of a preppers group he had created on Facebook, but that's as far as their relationship went.

'I've don't even know the c***. I've never even seen him,' he said.

'Everyone around here from Bright to Myrtleford knows him. Why [arrest] me? Have they done their homework and found out I'm an excellent bushman too? So what?'

While he shares Freeman's survivalist interests, and is himself no fan of police, Mr Mallett insisted he did not condone him allegedly murdering the officers.

He described Freeman as a 'd***head'.

A shellshocked Mr Mallett recounted the dramatic moment he was arrested at his home amid a thunderstorm on Friday night.

'It was howling with rain and I heard the "whoop!" (of a police siren), and when I opened my door more than 10 little laser dots were on me,' he said.

'There were automatic weapons trained on me, they were ready to shoot, and a big black tank in the driveway.

'They made me crawl on my hands and knees through the pouring rain, and when I got to the gutter, which had six inches of water in it, they said, "Now lay on your face and drag yourself through it".

'I looked up and saw they had their fingers on the trigger.


He has been charged with being a prohibited person possessing an imitation firearm and possessing a drug of dependence.

He was bailed to appear before Myrtleford Magistrate's Court on October 3.

Mr Mallett makes and sells wooden knives, and says he has an American civil war replica Colt .45 gun.”

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Man arrested during Dezi Freeman manhunt erupts at alleged cop killer

Self-described outlaw biker and sovereign citizen Stephen Mallett, 61, erupted when confronted about his arrest.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Given Freeman was living in a bus, he probably had lots of time on his hands but limited resources and his hideout now is possibly more makeshift and opportunistic than engineered. If so, that bodes well for a shorter survival window.

 

[sunspun]

ha ha ... she may have been on the bus but not at the point you think she was dearest Troops.

My theory at this stage: she may have been on the bus and when Dezi saw the police at the front gate via cctv, he ordered her to take the kids and run ... perhaps into the bush to a designated spot??
Or, she may have been at a friends place with the kids.

Well, the first reports said that Dezi had shot the cops in his bus ambush and escaped unhurt with his wife and kids. The next thing I read was that he was on the run and that he was holding his wife and kids hostage. Then I read that they were hunting for him and him alone, and his wife and kids' whereabouts were unknown but they wanted her to come in for questioning. Then finally, they had talked to her at a police station while still urgently trying to find the alleged killer.

So I can easily believe the report that said she was on the bus when he shot the cops, because that aligns with all those early reports as I read them. Sounds to me like she was right there on the bus when they arrived, as that report said, and after all hell broke loose when he fired at the cops, they all escaped amidst the chaos and disappeared into the bush. Whether she went willingly or not, I don't know, but since the next reports said he was holding her hostage, maybe he didn't give her a choice.

But then, it sounds like he must have let her go, probably saw she was slowing him down (a given, especially with kids in tow, imo) and so took off on his own, leaving her to find her own way back to town (couldn't have had far to go, it wouldn't have taken him any time at all to see the only chance he'd have of evading capture would be if he ditched the family.) So that must have been when she eventually made her way to the police station. Sounds like she didn't go directly there, so it may have taken her awhile, but she made it eventually.

So that's how I see it. But all my conclusions are only as good as the reports by the media and the police are, since that's all I had to go by and what I was trying to match up to. But it all lines up with everything that was said, AFAICS!

 

[sunspun]

I still find it WILD if Mali was on the bus at the time & also managed the evade the cops there & than.

Well, HE managed it somehow though, and I can imagine that they were a lot more worried about him escaping than her, but still, he managed to get away from them and escaped (for now.) Sounds to me like they all left the bus together, but he ran (a lot) faster than she did, trying to get away from the cops, so I don't think they were together very long.

And if the cops were all running after him, she was able to go in another direction (or sit tight hidden), which would be why they were eventually reporting that they didn't know where she was (after first reporting that they were all together.)

And of course, some of the cops weren't able to give chase at all, sadly, and then there may have been some others who were tending to those who were on the ground, thanks to this crazed killer's bullets. So that's how I think she managed to evade the cops "there and then," as you put it!

 

[sunspun]

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Suspected double cop killer Dezi Freeman previously posed as a firefighter to sneak through emergency police roadblocks to evade detection and defy the law.​

'This man thinks he's untouchable,' one former friend told Daily Mail Australia.

'He will try every trick in the book and thrives on bending rules and humiliating government agencies.'

According to the friend, his most brazen stunt came during the Black Summer bushfires of 2020, when whole communities were evacuated and the Mount Buffalo around Porepunkah was under emergency warning as flames tore through the region.

But while thousands were fleeing, Freeman was plotting a way in.

A keen photographer, Freeman became as obsessed with taking photos of the devastation as he was with defying the official keep-out orders.

According to the friend, his most brazen stunt came during the Black Summer bushfires of 2020, when whole communities were evacuated and the Mount Buffalo around Porepunkah was under emergency warning as flames tore through the region.

But while thousands were fleeing, Freeman was plotting a way in.

A keen photographer, Freeman became as obsessed with taking photos of the devastation as he was with defying the official keep-out orders.

When stopped at roadblocks, he is alleged to have gone to extraordinary lengths and used his old firefighter's uniform to evade the roadblocks.

Freeman had quit Victoria's volunteer Country Fire Authority in 2014 and should not have kept or worn his uniform in the years afterwards.

'He dressed up as a firefighter, an emergency service worker, during a state of emergency,' his old mate revealed. 'And he got through.'

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Sinister way cop killer suspect Dezi Freeman slipped past roadblocks

Ddezi Freeman, 56, remains on the run after he allegedly gunned down Detective Neal Thompson, and Senior Constable Vadim De Waart at his property in Porepunkah on Tuesday morning.

www.dailymail.co.uk

So I wonder where all his prize-winning photographs are that he worked so hard to get?? He didn't go to all that trouble just to get in there with his camera and then end up with no photos to show for it, did he? Is this selfie the only one he took? Or maybe he got 'em, and of course, they were stunning, I'm sure, but he has to keep them under wraps so he doesn't tell on himself. What a shame. /s

 

[sunspun]

I think we have there are two main options here...either Mali was not in the bus and the reporting at the beginning (concerns that she and the kids were hostages) was "wrong" in the sense that info filtering out to the media from police were scant and maybe not as accurate, or she was in the bus and police genuinely didn't know where she was for a significant period of time after the initial shooting.

ETA: if the second option is the correct one, than the next question is how did she get out without being seen and where did she go.

MOO

I think she got out the same way he did, with him. But then they split up. She wouldn't have been able to keep up with him.

 

[sunspun]

So I think the police prosecutor is going to hammer Mali about knowing about the gun on the bus, and not warning the approaching police men with the summons.,...

Because he must have had the gun loaded and ready and aimed... he only had a few seconds advantage

I can picture him with his loaded gun ready and aimed at the approaching unaware cops, with her seeing all this, and still believe that she absolutely didn't know he was going to shoot them. That's the position I'd expect him to take even if he wasn't going to shoot anybody, knowing what we know about him now. Maybe she just thought he was just going to be an a-hole to them and order them off "his" property (at gunpoint), without thinking anybody was in danger of actually getting shot that day. Of course, if he'd have done that instead of shooting at them, there'd probably still be one person shot that day, but it wouldn't be any of the police officers.

Then again, if he had his guns out and loaded, and he tells her to stay put and be silent, I would think she'd probably do as told, so she may not have warned the police, knowing it might cost her her own life.

Or who knows, maybe she was 100% aware of his plans and approved of everything he did that day.

 

[Elley Mae]

Maybe he did like deer and rabbit do. When hunting both and they catch your scent they take off.
They run out a bit then circle back while the hunting travels on. Possible he did that and he’s back close to the property where he’s familiar with his surroundings.

Just a guess.

 

[drsleuth]

This Chopper has me intrigued as to what it's doing?

Says military or government

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[Chimera]

Thanks everyone for the updates.
I didn't realize he even had a wife & kids, that's how far behind I am.
Hoping he's apprehended soon, and no further loss of innocent life !

 

[Marg944]

Armoured cars enter national park in seventh day of manhunt for Dezi Freeman begins​

“Bulletproof Bearcat armoured police vehicles were seen entering Mount Buffalo National Park overnight as the hunt for accused cop killer Dezi Freeman enters its seventh day in regional Victoria.”

Armoured cars enter national park in manhunt for Dezi Freeman

www.9news.com.au

 

[Marg944]

6.21am

Poster of alleged police killer surfaces at anti-immigration rallies​

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“At anti-immigration protests held across Australia on Sunday, a poster of alleged police killer Dezi Freeman was sighted in the crowds in South Australia.”

Porepunkah shooting LIVE updates: Police believe Dezi Freeman is being helped as search continues, sign at March for Australia protest condemned

Dezi Freeman remains on the run after allegedly executing two policemen and wounding a third in an ambush attack in Porepunkah. Follow our rolling coverage.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Marg944]

7.33am

‘Mongrel idiot’: Condemnation for protester who displayed sign of Freeman​

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“The person who held up a sign of Dezi Freeman at Adelaide’s anti-immigration protest on Sunday has drawn condemnation from politicians and retired police.

“This mongrel idiot who holds up a poster of the alleged killer of these two fine police members... that incites violence, clearly,” said retired detective Charlie Bezzina on Sunrise.”

Porepunkah shooting LIVE updates: Police believe Dezi Freeman is being helped as search continues, sign at March for Australia protest condemned

Dezi Freeman remains on the run after allegedly executing two policemen and wounding a third in an ambush attack in Porepunkah. Follow our rolling coverage.

www.theage.com.au

 

[MrJ]

No ABC live blog yet. There’s not too much to say at this rate anyway. I hope that this ‘man’ is found soon

 

[Trooper]

No ABC live blog yet. There’s not too much to say at this rate anyway. I hope that this ‘man’ is found soon

He has surprised me, I did not think he could evade VICPOL this long, although the terrain and the weather is on his side, apart from the uncomfortableness of it all. I don't think he has all the great qualities of a bushman as some of his groupies claim. His method of living has a lot of flaws in it, that bushmen would scorn.,

They , his fellow travelers ,, are very short on whether he sexually assaults children, though, on that matter each and every fellow sov. cit. and amateur wooden knife maker, and former work colleague is absolutely silent on. Not a word, not a reference, not a condemnation, not a skerrick of sympathy for this victim,

A difficult subject, which is best shied away from ..yet somewhere in that town some kid is terrified of Dez in ways that defy description, and Dez , loaded up and armed for bear at large , Dez coming for him /her to permanently silence them like those two unfortunate coppers. Because Dez has to negate this accuser, or his whole schtick falls over . Dez as nice bloke, 'very helpful', church attendee, homeschooler, mr Fixit, and so on becomes merely Mr Skanky in a very short time.