Townsville Bureau
Porepunkah farmer and heritage consultant Andrew Swift is the owner of the rural property in the Victorian highlands where Dezi Freeman allegedly shot three police officers on August 26, 2025, who were breaking into his bus trying to arrest him on a warrant allegedly for an historic sex offence.
Getting a warrant with these allegations is a favourite ruse for police which allows them to harass someone such as Dezi who had run-ins with police for years over minor breaches of corporate political party policy masquerading as law.
Just ask Julian Assange.
The veracity of the allegation in the warrant is dubious to say the least.
Freeman told police and magistrates over the years that their maritime law was just that – it didn’t apply on land.
It is obvious this terrible tragedy could have been averted had Mr Swift been allowed to mediate between hostile police and the Freeman family trapped in the bus. Instead they took him away.
Police training or lack thereof is the main offender here and when police at their training academies are told the “public is the enemy” then these situations are hard to prevent.
The part Mr Swift played in helping the injured policeman is notable and he should have been given a meritorious award for his efforts. Instead they held the sword of Damocles over his head in fear the real story, deliberately obfuscated by the legacy media, could get out.
What is quite obvious is that the bullet hole in the sheet of iron on the shed wall, which Mr Swift said could have been made by Freeman shooting at a police officer, definitely was not made by a home made shotgun, the firearm the police said Freeman used.
The hole in the corrugated iron was made by a bullet fired from a centrefire rifle or handgun.
The truthful story related by Mr Swift in this video bears little semblance to the crap pedalled by the legacy media at the time.
Dezi Freeman was finally located and shot by police on March 30 this year after seven months hiding out on a property a short drive from where the police officers were killed.