A journalist overlaying the “full lawlessness” in Portland mentioned she was left with a painful black eye when a masked “Antifa-affiliated protester” whacked her within the face with a flagpole.
Put up Millennial reporter Katie Daviscourt appeared on Fox Information Wednesday evening with an enormous bruise below her proper eye suffered whereas overlaying the nightly protests exterior an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) constructing within the long-troubled Oregon metropolis.
She mentioned she was attacked Tuesday evening 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 overlaying Portland for the previous 4 months. Full lawlessness,” she instructed host Jesse Watters of overlaying 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 flagpole in my face, after which I type of flip round and that’s when she swung it like a baseball bat and instantly hit my eye,” Daviscourt additionally instructed 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 via 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 instructed 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 officers” adopted the suspect and confronted her, police mentioned.
“The Dialogue Officer tried to speak to the suspect to listen to her aspect of the story. She wouldn’t cease, so the DLO instructed her she was being detained. She refused the lawful police order to cease and he or she fled,” police mentioned.
Police mentioned they met with the sufferer and that the case is being investigated by its Main Crimes Unit.
On Saturday, President Trump introduced he directed the Struggle Division to ship “all obligatory troops” to Portland to guard town and its ICE amenities “from assault by Antifa, and different home terrorists,” following months of every day protests.
The state of Oregon filed a lawsuit the subsequent day to dam Trump’s plan to deploy Nationwide Guard troops to town.
