What's Going On In Portland?
The restaurant owner conducting the tour attributes much of the problem to major businesses that allowed office workers to work from home during the pandemic, but never required them to return to the office afterward, abandoning public space to the Lumpenproletariat, who in the video look like nice college kids who are nevertheless all nodded out.
The political alignment in Portland appears to be an entitled bourgeoisie aligned with homeless but middle-class-looking young white druggies and violent leftist radicals, against the working class broadly defined.
A conservative journalist, Katie Daviscourt, said she was attacked Tuesday night by an Antifa-affiliated protester who gave her a black eye.
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 [Fox anchor Jesse] 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 officers” 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 being investigated by its Major Crimes Unit.
A woman, possibly the same one, attacked another conservative journalist, Nick Sortor, Thursday night. Accordinbg to the AP,
Sortor, 27, who’s a regular guest on Fox News and whose X profile has more than 1 million followers, was arrested Thursday night with two other people outside the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building. The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said it was reviewing the case and would make a decision on whether to proceed with charges before Sortor’s arraignment Monday.
What led to the arrests was not immediately clear. Portland police said they moved into the crowd to make arrests as fights broke out. They arrested Sorter and two others.
All three were charged with second-degree disorderly conduct. Sorter was released Friday on his own recognizance, according to Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office’s online records.
But as of Thursday morning, Fox News was reporting a completely different situation:
For the first time in months, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency building here was not besieged Wednesday night by Antifa creeps, who have clearly been scared off by the Trump administration’s increased presence on the ground.
It's a funny thing, just as in President Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., once there are consequences for breaking the law, things get awfully quiet.
It was obvious as I approached the facility just before nightfall that something had changed. Gone for the most part was the menacing gang of masked Antifa with their sticks and flagpoles that I had seen prowling the previous night.
It sounds as though the rejoicing was premature, and the menacing creeps were back Thursday night, along with the dialogue liaison officers, who were apparently there to dialogue, not to enforce the law. By yesterday,
The U.S. Department of Justice says it will launch a widescale probe of the Portland Police Bureau following the arrest of a conservative online journalist and influencer Thursday.
. . . Speaking to the media later Friday morning, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the arrest “extremely troubling,” claiming that Sortor was “ambushed by antifa and was defending himself.”
Sortor said the investigation will be led by Harmeet K. Dhillon, who is serving as assistant attorney general for civil rights, and in earlier years represented Andy Ngo, editor-at-large at The Post Millennial, in civil litigation.
On social media, Dhillon posted a letter addressed to the city attorney and Police Chief Bob Day, warning the city may be using its policing powers to engage in “viewpoint discrimination.”
The letter cited as evidence the arrest of Sortor, the lack of the arrest of a suspect in the assault reported by Post Millennial reporter Katie Daviscourt at a Tuesday protest, as well as recent moves by the City Council finding the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in breach of its land-use permit.
Dhillon's letter is reported to demand:- All bodycam footage of Sortor’s arrest and the alleged assault on Daviscourt.
- All incident reports, arrest reports, and force reports related to the events.
- All complaints filed against the PPB for its handling of the incidents.
- All internal communications regarding the decision to target the ICE facility with zoning enforcement actions.
- Any communications directing PPB officers on how to respond to ICE protests in the last 30 days.
Federal immigration officials say their Portland, Oregon, facility has come under nightly attack, with little help from local police because of political directives from city leaders.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Bill Melugin, Cammila Wamsley, director of Portland’s ICE office, said the facility has faced violence for more than 100 consecutive nights, with Portland police largely absent under guidance from the mayor and city council.
. . . She said nightly protests have escalated beyond chants and signs, with bottle rockets striking the ICE building, rocks shattering windows, lasers targeting officers’ eyes and barricades blocking vehicles.
. . . Wamsley said the Portland Police Department has been slow to respond — and sometimes doesn’t respond at all — because of city policy. She explained that assaults have occurred outside and across the street from the building, but police have either taken too long to arrive or not shown up at all.
"That is not the stance they would take six blocks from here, but it is the stance they take with us because of guidance from the mayor and city council," Wamsley said.
According to Axios,
The city and state filed for a temporary restraining order seeking to block the arrival of troops, which was the subject of Friday's hearing.
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield also filed a lawsuit seeking to block the deployment, alleging the move violates the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits using troops for domestic law enforcement.
However, there are exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act, particularly the Insurrection Act, which allows a president to use federalized Guard units to suppress domestic violence that hinders the execution of state or federal law and deprives people of their constitutional rights. Given Assistant Attorney General Dhillon's letter to Portland authorities, it's likely that the Justice Department will argue that the deployment is lawful on this basis.The judge, a Trump appointee, said she would issue a ruling later Friday or over the weekend. Thus key developments, both the judge's ruling and the District Attorney's decision to proceed with disorderly conduct charges against Sortor, are imminent.
UPDATE:
Breaking: The first of the Portland Antifa ICE rioters has been federally convicted.
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) October 3, 2025
Trantifa militant Julie Winters, formerly Christopher Hudson, has pleaded guilty to felony intimidation of a federal officer and resisting arrest. Other serious charges were dropped as part of… https://t.co/tMs7sAXnMr pic.twitter.com/KLpUSJ1mx6
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