A journalist masking the “full lawlessness” in Portland mentioned she was left with a painful black eye when a masked “Antifa-affiliated protestor” whacked her within the face with a flagpole.
Put up Millennial reporter Katie Daviscourt appeared on Fox Information Wednesday night time with an enormous bruise on her proper eye suffered whereas masking the nightly protests exterior an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) constructing within the long-troubled Oregon metropolis.
She mentioned she was attacked Tuesday night time by one of many “Antifa-affiliated protesters who harass, assault, and threaten anybody who they understand to be a menace to their trigger, together with journalists, native residents, and ICE brokers.”
“That’s what it’s been like masking Portland for the previous 4 months. Full lawlessness,” she advised host Jesse Watters of masking Portland, which was additionally the epicenter of the worst Black Lives Matter riots in 2020.
“This Antifa-affiliated topic simply began approaching me and waving a flag pole in my face, after which I sort of flip round and that’s when she swung it like a baseball bat and immediately hit my eye,” Daviscourt additionally advised Actual America’s Voice host Jack Posobiec.
The native police division, she claims, refused to do something to assist.
“I instantly ran to a Portland Police officer, hunted down the suspect, chased her by means of the streets and mentioned, ‘That is my assault suspect, are you able to guys lastly do one thing?’ and I had eyes on her for about 35 minutes,” she mentioned.
“Portland Police refused to come back in and make an arrest and I had three officers simply standing there, watching me attempt to search out the suspect,” she advised Watters.
The Portland Police Division issued a press launch Wednesday asking for the general public’s assist in figuring out the suspect — however police denied that they refused to assist the journalist.
One of many division’s Dialogue Liaison Officer adopted the suspect and confronted her, police mentioned.
“The Dialogue Officer tried to speak to the suspect to listen to her facet of the story. She wouldn’t cease, so the DLO advised her she was being detained. She refused the lawful police order to cease and she or he fled,” police mentioned.
Police mentioned they met with the sufferer and that the case is now being investigated by its Main Crimes Unit.
On Saturday, Trump introduced he directed the Conflict Division to ship “all essential troops” to Portland to guard town and its ICE services “from assault by Antifa, and different home terrorists,” following months of each day protests.
The state of Oregon filed a lawsuit the following to dam Trump’s plan to deploy Nationwide Guard troops to town.
