Anti-immigration protester who held up alleged double cop killer’s poster is CHARGED by cops

A protester who held up a poster of alleged cop killer Dezi Freeman at an anti-immigration rally has been charged.

A man sparked nationwide outrage when he was photographed holding up the ‘offensive’ placard at a March for Australia rally in Adelaide‘s Rundle Park on Sunday.

The poster consisted of a photo of the fugitive with the words ‘free man’ underneath, sparking a police investigation.

Freeman, 56, remains on the run, a week after he allegedly shot two police officers and wounded another while police at his property in Victoria.

South Australian detectives have spent the last two days trying to locate the Adelaide protester.

Following extensive inquiries, a Golden Grove man, 39, attended the Grenfell Street police station in the CBD on Tuesday.

He was charged with displaying offensive material in a public place.

The man was granted bail to appear in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on October 28.

The protester was charged with displaying offensive material in a public place

It comes after Acting Police Commissioner Linda Williams slammed the poster as ‘offensive’ and ‘disgraceful’.

‘I found it quite disturbing,’ she told reporters on Monday.

Thousands of Aussies took to the streets on Sunday to take part in anti-immigration rallies across nation, which included a 15,000-strong crowd in Adelaide.