<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The self-declared "sovereign citizen" accused of killing two </span><a href="http://9news.com.au/police" rel="" target="" title="police"><span>police</span></a><span> officers in an ambush in rural </span><a href="http://9news.com.au/victoria" rel="" target="" title="Victoria"><span>Victoria</span></a><span> referred to police in court as "frigging Nazis", "Gestapo" and "terrorist thugs", a </span><a href="http://9news.com.au/courts" rel="" target="" title="court"><span>court</span></a><span> judgement shows. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In another run-in with the justice system, video shows him declaring the magistrate and several police officers "under arrest" during a 2019 hearing.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/porepunkah-victoria-police-officer-shooting-at-rural-property/fdd5dcce-fb0f-4c32-9d6a-2910db764fe7" rel="" target="" title="Dezi Freeman, who police claim shot a 59-year-old detective and a 35-year-old senior constable dead"><span>Dezi Freeman, who police claim shot a 59-year-old detective and a 35-year-old senior constable dead</span></a><span> "in cold blood" in Porepunkah this morning, tried to take a police officer and the County Court of Victoria to the Supreme Court of Victoria in November 2024 to fight some driving offences.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>LIVE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/porepunkah-victoria-police-shooting-live-updates-latest-news-headlines/7dcdf6e1-5c00-4554-8d22-cc74f2e1f007"><strong><span>Two officers killed, one injured in shooting at rural property in Victoria</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He'd been fined and banned from driving for two years for speeding, refusing to provide a drug test and driving off filming his police on his mobile phone in Porepunkah in November 2020.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He went to the County Court in an attempt to get those charges thrown out, arguing he was acting in self-defence, under "extreme duress" and "felt threats of harm".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I felt threatened and preyed upon ... even the sight of a cop or a cop car ... it's like an Auschwitz survivor seeing a Nazi soldier," he told the court, according to excerpts from the follow-up Supreme Court case. </span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/porepunkah-police-shooting-dezi-freeman-previously-called-police-terrorist-thugs-in-fight-against-driving-fines/8ca84c17-29e5-4018-bbf2-829e5ed71978" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"What's worse than a swastika is the inverted pentagram, the Satanic symbol that they wear and they behave like it as well."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The County Court judge agreed to drop the speeding charge but rejected Freeman's self-defence assertions and upheld the other two charges.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>That decision was backed up by Supreme Court Justice James Gorton, who denied his application for a judicial review.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>EXPLAINER:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/porepunkah-victoria-police-officer-shooting-at-rural-property/fdd5dcce-fb0f-4c32-9d6a-2910db764fe7"><strong><span>What we know about accused cop killer</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The judgment shows some excerpts from his run-in with arresting officer Acting Sergeant Rachelle Maher after she pulled him over for going 76km/h in a 60km/h zone.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I don't give a shit. Leave me alone, you terrorist. Get the hell away from me and go," he said, when asked to produce his licence.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He went on to refer to police as "corrupt scum" and "corrupt filth".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In another incident, Freeman reportedly led an attempted private prosecution of then premier Daniel Andrews for treason in 2021 and was arrested while protesting outside court in Myrtleford on the day the case was due to be heard. It was thrown out.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>EXPLAINER:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/what-is-a-sovereign-citizen-movement-beliefs-explainer/968ac369-a7bd-4a6d-9465-7bc2a1d13bdf" rel="" target="" title=""><strong><span>What is the 'sovereign citizen' movement?</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In another brush with the legal system, Freeman tried to "arrest" a magistrate and several police officers while appearing in Wangaratta Magistrates Court. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I arrest you for aiding and abetting, OK, but I arrest you for acting oppressively and when interested and perverting the course of justice," Freeman says in video of the hearing.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"You must stand down. You're now in my custody and under arrest. You are not free to leave."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He's told to sit down and he is eventually asked to leave the courtroom while trying to read out a document to the court.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Late tonight, police were still combing bushland near Porepunkah for the alleged gunman.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f"><em><strong><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></strong></em></a><em><strong><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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