Dezi Freeman video: Footage of alleged cop killer running from police during COVID protest in Victoria

New footage has emerged of accused double police killer Dezi Freeman sprinting away from officers during a heated confrontation at a COVID protest in rural Victoria.

The video was posted to social media on Tuesday evening, but was filmed years before the fatal Porepunkah shootings.

The search for Mr Freeman has stretched into a second week, with heavily armed units combing bushland around Victoria’s northeast.

Despite more than 450 public tip-offs, police have yet to confirm a sighting of the armed fugitive.

The new footage was recorded in either 2021 or 2022 and shows Freeman running from several police after refusing to provide his name and address, and not wearing a mask.

He jumps fences, doubles back under a bridge, and ultimately appears to evade capture.

Mr Freeman had argued with officers for nearly half an hour, repeatedly rejecting requests for his ID, demanding one officer had told him her details.

At one point, a female officer asked:

“Are you going to provide your identity?”

Mr Freeman responded:

“Yes I am going to provide...In due process.”

“I can arrest you,” the officer responded.

“You are in breach of section 166,” Mr Freeman continued.

“Are you an authorised officer?” he asked.

“This is what they do, this is the trick,” Mr Freeman said.

The stand-off escalated, with Mr Freeman accusing the officer of impersonation and declaring he would provide details only once “the correct legal process” was followed.

When told he was under arrest, Mr Freeman turned the threat back on the officer, saying:

“You are under arrest. You are under arrest.”

He then tripped and fled, with three officers chasing him through the regional town.

The clip is among a series of interactions showing Freeman’s growing hostility toward police during the pandemic.

He frequently applied “sovereign citizen” tactics, rejecting mask mandates and vaccine requirements.

Authorities say the fugitive’s relationship with police deteriorated sharply during this period, long before the fatal shooting of Detective Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson and Senior Constable Vadim De Waart at Freeman’s rural property in Porepunkah on August 26.

A third officer was seriously wounded but is recovering.

The person filming the video ran after the police, who were chasing Mr Freeman, saying “I didn’t think he was going to do that”.

Very alarmingly the video has almost 100 comments, congratulating the alleged police killer for the way he acted.