Portland PD Basically Tells Conservative Journalists Attacked by Antifa, 'Your Skirt Was Too Short'
By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell | 6:30 AM on October 05, 2025The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.
In late September, President Donald Trump ordered the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to deploy National Guard troops to Portland to protect the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the city. This ICE facility and its employees have been under siege, suffering a years-long campaign of violence by Antifa and other left-wing radical groups, and the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) has done little to quell the rabid unrest or to arrest and prosecute those facilitating it. However, PPB will allow conservative independent journalists who have documented this violence to be harassed, assaulted, and even arrested.
On Friday, Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon also took action related to the happenings in Portland, informing the PPB that their policies and practices were now under investigation. This is in the wake of this week's violence, which left independent journalist Katie Daviscourt with a black eye from being battered with a flagpole, unprovoked, by one leftist, and fellow conservative journalist Nick Sortor being arrested by PPB after he tried to protect himself while being attacked.
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If the PPB responded to the Antifa violence and insanity as quickly as this lawfare response against the Trump administration was delivered, the bureau would not be under the microscope. On Saturday, a U.S. District Court judge granted Oregon and Portland elected officials a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration's implementation of troop deployment.
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