Conspiracy theorist Eve Black has sensationally claimed she did nothing wrong, breaking her silence over claims she dodged lockdown in an online rant.
Ms Black, 28, went live on Facebook for more than 20 minutes where she insisted she did not break the law and claimed police hunted her down in revenge.
The former adult entertainer, whose real name is Eve Limberiou, shot to notoriety when she bragged about breaching one of Melbourne’s checkpoints during stage 3 lockdown in another video uploaded on social media.
Six days later she was dragged from her car and handcuffed after again allegedly refusing to comply with police, leaving officers no choice but to smash her window at a traffic stop in Carlton.
During her online rant, Ms Black, of Warrandyte, claimed police were targeting her and had tapped her mobile phone.
She believes they were listening in on her calls and tracking her phone and messages.
“So they knew that I was planning on leaving the home to go to a certain place,” she told her followers.
“They chose me because I had a target over my head.”
Ms Black, who described herself as a “Christian renegade”, also said she didn’t trust that younger people who had died from COVID-19 had actually died from the virus and claimed authorities were lying on death certificates.
She has previously claimed coronavirus was a “SCAMdemic”.
Ms Black hadn’t been heard from for more than a month since her arrest but re-emerged online on Sunday to attack her critics and claim she was arrested unlawfully.
She said the backlash from her deliberate checkpoint breach and public arrest had “hurt her feelings” for a little bit, and she had received rape and death threats from online trolls.
She insisted she did not refuse to comply with the policeman at the roadblock in Bunyip because he waved her through.
“I definitely didn’t refuse to comply, he waved me through,” she said.
“I even said ‘thank you’, I was not rude, I was not disrespectful, I spoke to him with kindness.
“They said I was refusing to answer questions, no, no, no, I wasn’t refusing to answer questions, I asked them questions, they refused to answer.”
She said she didn’t put her window down because she didn’t want police to reach in and “harass” her.
At the time, senior police condemned her actions as “selfish and childish”.
“It was ridiculous. It was unnecessary,” Deputy Commissioner Rick Nugent said.
Her reaction caused widespread community fury amid a wave of resentment against those defying COVID-19 restrictions, which has grown over the past week as multiple anti-lockdown “freedom walk” protests emerge across Melbourne.
Ms Black is expected to be charged on summons with traffic offences, failing to produce her licence, failing to provide her name and address and breaches of the chief health officer’s directions.
But she bragged the summons was yet to arrive.
“I haven’t received a summons to court, I’m waiting, send me something, sent me a summons to court, yeah,” she said.
Ms Black admitted during her rant that she didn’t go about things in the best way possible, and people had misunderstood her intention behind the video.
She said she laughed because she was nervous and relieved the officer let her through.
“I’ve had moments where I wished that none of this would have ever happened, but there’s definitely been some perks to it,” Ms Black said.
“This has actually provided me with an opportunity to restart my life in a new way that I really needed.”
Source: heraldsun
Conspiracy theorist Eve Black says she did nothing wrong in online rant
