DAVID MARCUS: My run-in shows that in Portland, it's the cops who are handcuffed
Journalist assaulted with flagpole as officers stand by during more than 100 nights of demonstrations
By David Marcus Fox News
Published October 1, 2025 3:19pm EDT
PORTLAND, Oregon – For more than 100 nights in a row, Antifa thugs have taken over the streets in front of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility (ICE), hooting, hollering and waving any flag that wasn’t Old Glory.
As dusk descended on Tuesday, it was clear they—not the hapless handful of police on hand—were in control. I later learned officers were told by their higher-ups not to engage the black-clad, masked radicals.
If you have never seen Antifa at night, in their natural menacing environment, I’d describe it as a mental asylum meeting a Batman movie. It’s almost hard to imagine these characters are real.
Not long after I arrived at the chaotic scene, a man drove up in a pickup truck, an American flag hoisted behind it. I asked the driver, Shannon, why he had decided to come.
"Because this is bull----," he told me.
Moments later, his truck was surrounded by masked Antifa members, one on an electric bike. They mocked him in their usual sexually disparaging terms and urged him to commit an act of violence against them. He knew better than to take the bait but made his presence known before driving off.
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