Daviscourt began by describing an on-the-job assault that occurred on Tuesday night she says left her shaken and concerned for others’ safety.
“So this Antifa-affiliated subject just started approaching me and waving the flagpole in my face and then I kind of turned around, and that's when she swung it like a baseball bat and directly hit my eye," Daviscourt said. Posobiec chimed in, "she was trying to blind you — she was actually trying to blind you. And you know a flagpole like that to the ocular socket, I mean, your brain is right there — you could, there's serious, very very serious injuries that could happen.”
She said the attack showed what she sees as a broader, large-scale collapse of order in parts of the city she has been covering: “As you can see, I've been covering Portland since June 7th, and it has been completely taken over by anarchists, Antifa-affiliated domestic terrorists now, and police refuse to come in. What we saw was Police Chief Day said that the National Guard is not needed, the Trump administration does not need to come in.
"But then when I go and hunt down the suspects who assaulted me, police officers are standing there, refused to help me. And then when police finally show up, they say, ‘Oh we can't go in because it is too dangerous.’ So is Chief Day lying to the American people, saying that the agency has everything under control? 'Oh, but the officers are telling me that it's actually too dangerous for them to go in.'”
She continued, saying said enforcement limits mean ordinary people and reporters are left exposed: "It's every man for themselves in this zone and the feds can only protect the federal building, federal property. So anyone who shows up is completely on their own. If violence happens to them, don't expect any help — that's a warning.”
She said that police were of no assistance when she showed video of her assailant to them and said the suspect was attempting to flee: "I was actually going up to film a different altercation… all I'm doing is filming off to the side doing my job, and that's when I got assaulted and then it was a mob mentality and police are standing about 20 yards away watching.
"The person who assaulted me is masked and I go, ‘We need to identify this person so I can actually hold them accountable in a court of law.’ I immediately walk up to three police officers standing there, saying, ‘I just got assaulted,' I showed in my video, 'there's the suspect, the suspect's trying to escape.’ I said, ‘You are coming with me. I've had it. We've been assaulted here for four months straight now,’ and I grabbed the police officer. I said, ‘You're coming with me. This is the person who assaulted me.’ I'm chasing her down in the streets and she goes up to her and goes, ‘Ma'am, we're going to detain you.’ And the suspect turns around and goes, ‘You're not touching me,’ and he just goes, ‘Okay, hands up, won't do anything.’ So in my mind I'm going, ‘What the hell was that? That was the weakest response I've ever seen.’”
"When police refuse to enter, when chiefs tell the country everything is fine while officers tell a different story, people are left on their own.”
