{"id":273975,"date":"2025-08-27T19:08:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=273975"},"modified":"2025-08-27T19:08:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:08:44","slug":"extremist-ambush-kills-two-victoria-police-in-porepunkah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=273975","title":{"rendered":"Extremist Ambush Kills Two Victoria Police in Porepunkah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On August 26, 2025, in Porepunkah, Victoria, Australia, two Victoria Police officers\u2014Detective Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson, 59, and Senior Constable Vadim De Waart, 35\u2014were fatally shot, and a third was seriously injured during an ambush while serving a search warrant for historical sexual offenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspect, 56-year-old Dezi Freeman, a self-proclaimed sovereign citizen with a history of anti-authority clashes, fled into nearby bushland after the attack, sparking a massive manhunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Freeman is considered armed and dangerous, with authorities urging residents to stay indoors amid ongoing searches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This incident underscores the growing risks from extremist ideologies, drawing parallels to past events and prompting national grief from leaders like Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freeman is considered armed and dangerous, with authorities urging residents to stay indoors amid ongoing searches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":212417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,921,6407],"tags":[993,17883,8],"class_list":["post-273975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-crime","category-police-incident","tag-melbourne","tag-porepunkah","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273976,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273975\/revisions\/273976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/212417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}