Zoe Buhler is a 28 year old pregnant mother who lives just outside of Melbourne, Australia. She was handcuffed in her own living room on Wednesday afternoon and charged with “incitement” after officers entered her private property (with a search warrant) and began reading Buhler her rights, Daily Mail reported
Buhler made a Facebook post that allegedly incited a “anti-lockdown protest” in Victoria. “Anyone from Ballarat please join us in our fight for freedom and human rights!” she wrote on the page.
“Excuse me, incitement for what, what on Earth? I’m in my pajamas, my two kids are here. I have an ultrasound in an hour because I’m pregnant.” She insisted she hadn’t broken any law by putting up the post and offered one more than one occasion to simply take the post down, Zero Hedge explained
“Actually you are, that’s why we’re arresting you in relation to incitement,” the officers told her. Meanwhile, her boyfriend also tried to offer up some common sense, stating: “How about she just doesn’t do the event? It’s not like she’s done it, she made a post.
You’ve already committed the offense,” police responded.
In addition to arresting the pregnant mother over a Facebook post, police then informed her that they had a search warrant and that they needed to seize and confiscate all electronic devices in her home.
Friends of Buhler weighed in to the Daily Mail, stating: “This is absolutely disgusting!! Why don’t they do their job and catch some real criminals. This fear mongering is ridiculous.
AUSTRALIAN POLICE ARREST WOMAN FOR ANTI COVID LOCKDOWN FACEBOOK POST, SEIZE ALL COMPUTERSpic.twitter.com/ZSyc9qPxjK
— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) September 2, 2020
