A journalist covering the “complete lawlessness” in Portland said she was left with a painful black eye when a masked “Antifa-affiliated protestor” whacked her in the face with a flagpole.
Post Millennial reporter Katie Daviscourt appeared on Fox News Wednesday night with a big bruise on her right eye suffered while covering the nightly protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in the long-troubled Oregon city.
She said she was attacked Tuesday night by one of the “Antifa-affiliated protesters who harass, assault, and threaten anyone who they perceive to be a threat to their cause, including journalists, local residents, and ICE agents.”
“That’s what it’s been like covering Portland for the past four months. Complete lawlessness,” she told host Jesse Watters of covering Portland, which was also the epicenter of the worst Black Lives Matter riots in 2020.
“This Antifa-affiliated subject just started approaching me and waving a flag pole in my face, and then I kind of turn around and that’s when she swung it like a baseball bat and directly hit my eye,” Daviscourt also told Real America’s Voice host Jack Posobiec.
The local police department, she claims, refused to do anything to help.
“I immediately ran to a Portland Police officer, hunted down the suspect, chased her through the streets and said, ‘This is my assault suspect, can you guys finally do something?’ and I had eyes on her for about 35 minutes,” she said.
“Portland Police refused to come in and make an arrest and I had three officers just standing there, watching me try to hunt down the suspect,” she told Watters.
The Portland Police Department issued a press release Wednesday asking for the public’s help in identifying the suspect — but police denied that they refused to help the journalist.
One of the department’s Dialogue Liaison Officer followed the suspect and confronted her, police said.
“The Dialogue Officer attempted to talk to the suspect to hear her side of the story. She would not stop, so the DLO told her she was being detained. She refused the lawful police order to stop and she fled,” police said.
Police said they met with the victim and that the case is now being investigated by its Major Crimes Unit.
On Saturday, Trump announced he directed the War Department to send “all necessary troops” to Portland to protect the city and its ICE facilities “from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists,” following months of daily protests.
The state of Oregon filed a lawsuit the next to block Trump’s plan to deploy National Guard troops to the city.
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