Portland's got an Antifa First Amendment problem. Yet another journalist has been attacked by the black bloc-clad thugs in Portland, and you can rest assured that little to nothing will be done about it by local officials. It's time to bring in the federal Department of Justice to protect journalists' First Amendment rights.
Antifa isn't anti-fascist. As I've said for years, its name should be an acronym for Anti-First Amendment.
The city's law enforcement and county's laissez-faire attitude about prosecuting Antifa violence against journalists sank to another low point on May Day — the High Holy Day for the left — when yet another reporter was surrounded, mobbed, and assaulted. Katie Daviscourt of the Post Millennial swears she thought she was going to die that night near the ICE headquarters when she was swarmed, mobbed, assaulted, and then assaulted again by a rock-throwing thug. She was hit in the face. This isn't the first time Antifa has used rocks as weapons against reporters and conservatives. And it isn't the first time Daviscourt was attacked. She met the President of the United States sporting a shiner from another Antifa thug.
It’s impossible for me to do my job down at the Portland ICE facility, even with security. I was violently mobbed out by Antifa, and a suspect in black bloc threw a rock at my face.
— Katie Daviscourt 📸 (@KatieDaviscourt) May 2, 2026
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Portland's indulgence of Antifa violence and their incessant attacks on anyone wanting to record their activities are legendary. The attitude of the police and district attorney is also legendary for all the wrong reasons.
The institutional reaction to reporters covering this movement is basically: bummer, your skirt must have been too short and you asked for it.
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There’s a saying in the legal profession ethos: there’s no such thing as a perfect victim. In Portland, however, if an individual is reporting on Antifa and gets beaten, attacked, mobbed, assaulted, or even killed on the streets, the reporter isn’t seen as the victim and is told they asked for it.. They should have known this violent street mob would victimize them. And it’s because Portland city officials have allowed it.
Daviscourt covers Antifa and protest culture for a competing publication, but she’s far from the only one who has covered these individuals and taken a beating.
Mike Strickland, an independent reporter whose work made national news, apparently should have known in 2016 that recording Antifa's antics would result in him being mobbed twice. Then, after he was mobbed and threatened by flagpole-wielding Antifa militants, the bad actors tried to mob Strickland again. This time, however, the reporter exercising his First Amendment right to report the news saw the phalanx of Antifa activists and protesters running full speed toward him to hurt him again, and he pulled his permitted handgun to back them off. It worked. He didn't fire a shot. His finger was never near the trigger. And there was no more violence. Strickland, however, was convicted on multiple felony counts for "victimizing" BLM and Antifa individuals who were hidden behind masks or whose identities were never determined because the authorities just didn't feel like tracking them down in real time.
The Deputy DAs charged Strickland for victimizing people whose identities were never discovered or who never complained. "Victims" were wearing "a hoodie," or a mask, or "a backpack." The two named victims lied on the stand in court.
Strickland used his Second Amendment rights to protect his First Amendment rights, and the cops and DA put him in jail for it. A judge ordered Strickland’s exculpatory video he was shooting that day suppressed and ordered that the independent journalist stop reporting. He’d asked for it.
Antifa got what it wanted. They shut up the biggest voice in the country at the time. Mission Accomplished.
Then there was Andy Ngo, who as a Portland State University student thought the Antifa beat was pretty cool after watching Strickland in action. Ask Andy how cool it is now that he has been forced to move out of the country because Antifa attacks nearly killed him twice. But, sure, Andy asked for it, right?
The man known on social media as "Real Black Rebel" was stabbed by Antifa on the streets of Portland while reporting on their violence. He left the state. He's still livestreaming but only visits Portland. He won't live there anymore.
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Hunny Badger Mom, Chelly Bouferrache, livestreams and writes about all manner of things, including Antifa. In the fall of 2025, a black bloc-outfitted chick near the ICE facility threatened her with a flagpole and Hunny Badger Mom pepper sprayed the militant.
The Antifa thug, who has a free lawyer, is now suing Chelly.
Right now, in real time, the Multnomah County District Attorney's office is pondering, as if this is a hard call, whether to bring charges against a woman who pulled off a drive-by shooting of pro-ICE, pro-Trump supporters near the Portland ICE headquarters.
Isis Symone Irving got out of her car to get in the faces and screech at these pro-ICE counter protesters. Then, she left, switched out license plates on her Lexus, got her gun, and returned to exact revenge on the pro-ICE crowd.
She was recorded and positively identified shooting the pellet gun and striking counter protesters. Then she posted a confession video on her Instagram page and was fired from her real estate job following the incident.
The Multnomah County DA's spokesman told me they hadn't brought the violent drive-by to a grand jury yet but "we do indeed have the case and its under review. I'm told it has not before a grand jury yet."
The shooting happened in February.
These reporters reveal more than they know. They've become part of a larger expose about how a violent mob can run the streets with near-impunity because of the near-free pass they've gotten from Portland law enforcement and the rest of institutional Portland. They've damaged the city's core and its reputation.
But Portland can begin to repair itself. The city doesn't have to allow protesters to wear masks. Officials there can impose time, place, and manner requirements. The city can enforce the law against incitement and violent actions. But these so-called leaders don't.
The Trump executive order designating Antifa as a terrorist organization is in legal limbo. Portland, however, is still under a consent decree with the feds since the Obama administration imposed one following the creation of Black Lives Matter. The head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon, a former attorney for Andy Ngo, by the way, should reopen and rewrite this consent decree to require the city to enforce the law and protect the First Amendment rights of reporters.
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