Informed Medical Opinions Party senate candidate Raina Cruise ‘ripped hair of female police officer’

Footage of the shocking moment a failed Australian anti-vaxxer politician allegedly savages a female police officer has been shown in court.

Raina Cruise, 38, is seen in a violent 2021 confrontation with officers in the bodycam video which was played to Adelaide Magistrates Court.

The mother-of-three is alleged to have ripped two patches of hair from a female officer in the incident and screamed a string of obscenities including taunting her as ‘weak’.

Footage of the shocking moment failed Australian anti-vaxxer politician Raina Cruise allegedly savages a female police officer has been shown in Adelaide Magistrates Court

Ms Cruise infamously posed in a bra made from surgical masks on social media last year and unsuccessfully stood for the senate for the Informed Medical Opinions Party in the federal election.

She was charged with causing harm with intent, aggravated assault and failing to provide personal details.

The incident began when Ms Cruise was ejected from the Exeter Hotel in Adelaide’s Rundle Street last October after allegedly pulling the face mask off a bartender.

She was spoken to by police outside the hotel when they allege she became increasingly aggressive and eventually abusive.

Video viewed by Adelaide magistrate Briony Kennewell shows Ms Cruise shouting and swearing at police, then striking an officer multiple times, the prosecution alleged.

Among the abuse Cruise is alleged to have directed at police were the taunts ‘do you want a f***ing go, b***h?’ and ‘I’ll smash you, one-on-one’, AdelaideNow reported.

She was also allegedly heard telling e female officer ‘you are so f***ing weak’.

Prosecutor Karen Ingleton described Cruise’s behaviour during the incident as ‘aggressive and obnoxious’.

Raina Cruise (pictured in her political promotion material left ) has been charged with assault after a night out in an Adelaide pub. The Bachelor of Health Science Student recently posted a picture on Instagram in a Covid mask bra saying she had finally ‘worked out how to use them’ (right) 

Raina Cruise (pictured) has denied assaulting anyone and will reappear in court in May 

‘[She] eventually grabs [the officer] by the hair and drags her to the ground,’ Ms Ingleton alleged.

‘Despite a number of directions to let her go and get off, Cruise does not do that and ultimately rips hair from (the officer’s) head.’

Ms Cruise’s lawyer Andrew Graham claimed the case should be thrown out, arguing his client was unlawfully arrested.

But Ms Kennewell decided she did have a case to answer and she will now return to court next month.

Ms Cruise has addressed the incidents on a video she posted to YouTube in which she admits she pulled a Covid mask from a bartender but says she assaulted no one. 

‘If I hadn’t had a few drinks, it wouldn’t have happened,’ she said.