A man has been filmed headbutting a police officer while being arrested during an ugly confrontation between protesters and cops at the NSW-Queensland border.
Footage obtained by Daily Mail Australia shows several NSW police officers surrounding the man and a woman as they sat by the state border monument in Tweed Heads on Sunday.
The junction has been the site of several demonstrations in recent weeks as Queensland border remains closed to NSW due to the state's spiralling Covid crisis, with its residents under a raft of restrictions.
In the video, NSW Police officers confront the pair to asks why they appeared to be breaching the state's Covid rules, which include wearing masks in public settings and bans on public gatherings.
'There are public orders in place,' an officer asserts.
'You're required to be wearing masks.'
A man has been filmed headbutting police during a stand off between officers and protesters at the NSW-Queensland border on Sunday
The police ask the duo to stand up, but both appear to ignore the request - with the man continuing to sip a drink through a straw while staring off into the distance.
'We don't have anything to say here,' the woman says.
'You're not coming? Alright,' an officer replies, as his colleagues proceed to lift them off the ground.
While the woman signals she will stand on her own volition, the man lays down on his back, digging his heels into the ground.
The police hoist his arms over their and stand him upright to take him away.
But in a bid to stay put, the man headbutts the officer to his left and drops to the ground to wiggle out of the cop's grip.
Three officers rush over to pin the man to the ground, handcuffing his hands before marching him to their vehicle.
A crowd of supporters stood by filming the incident, taunting officers for policing public health orders.
'What a disgrace,' one woman says, while another man lectures officers about how Covid rules are a 'breach of human rights'.
NSW Police said a man was arrested and charged with three counts of breaching public health orders in relation to the incident, two counts of assault police, and resisting arrest after attending the unauthorised protest.
After headbutting the officer, the man dropped to the ground in a bid to escape cops' grip
NSW recorded 1,281 new locally-acquired Covid cases on Monday and five deaths as Premier Gladys Berejiklian warned infection
