The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) has come under fire for defaming a conservative journalist who was viciously assaulted by Antifa militants, claiming that she “instigated” the assault by simply being there.
Katie Daviscourt, a staff reporter for The Post Millennial, was labeled a “counter-protester” in an internal police report that suggested she and others deliberately antagonized protesters, leading to their own assaults.
Earlier this week, Daviscourt was bashed in the face by a female masked Antifa militant with a flag pole and left with a black eye. Police refused to arrest the assailant after she fled into a nearby “safehouse” for the extremist activists.
The report, authored by PPB Sgt. Andrew Braun, described Daviscourt, along with The Post Millennial contributor Chelly Bouferrache and conservative activist Rhein Amacher, as chronic instigators at the ICE protests. All three of them have been the victims of violent assaults by leftist lunatics.
Braun’s statement claimed:
“These 3 counter-protesters continue to be a chronic source of police and medical calls at ICE. Despite repeated advice from officers to stay away from the ICE crowd, they constantly return and antagonize the protesters until they are assaulted or pepper sprayed. They refuse or are reluctant to walk away from these confrontations, even when police are in the area trying to meet with them. They even engage in the same trespassing behavior on federal and trolley property as the main protesters. Aside from the confrontation between opposing protesters, there was no reported activity around ICE that would have otherwise generated a police response.”
The Post Millennial responded, writing, “Daviscourt has been diligently reporting on the protest and riot activity for months, recording her work both in The Post Millennial and on X for all the world to see while local legacy media stayed away for safety reasons. On Sept. 30, the world saw another report from Daviscourt, but this one ended with a concussion and an eye hemorrhage. She was reporting outside the facility when a woman swung a flagpole at her, bashing her in the face.”
Hellbound and Down 