X: Portland Police Blames Conservative Journalists for Their Own Attacks

X (Andy Ngo) ^

[TigerClaws]

Wow. In Oregon’s emergency lawsuit to prevent the President from sending troops to protect federal property, a disturbing email from @PortlandPolice Sergeant Andrew Braun (badge #56961) was included. In it, Braun blames the victims of Antifa violence for their own assaults and attacks.

Braun claims that journalist @KatieDaviscourt , citizen journalist @hunnybadgermom and conservative activist @RheinDAmacher are somehow responsible for being attacked by “protesters.” He falsely labels Daviscourt and Chelly Boufferache as “counter-protesters” and accuses them of trespassing on federal property. In reality, these journalists stay near or on federal property because when they're on public streets in Portland, the Portland Police will not bother to investigate if they are assaulted or robbed.

Sgt. Braun is essentially parroting Antifa talking points, which justify violence against those they deem unwelcome in public areas they lay claim to. Antifa regularly argues that anyone they label as an “antagonizer” (i.e., press) is fair game for violent retaliation. This leadership mindset or policy helps explain why Portland Police have systematically failed to protect conservatives from being beaten or robbed by Antifa and the violent far-left over the years

[enumerated]

“…their own attacks”?

Who writes these sorry headlines?

By the third grade I would have known to write “…attacks against them” and thus avoid the unfortunate ambiguity. And if I hadn’t, my third grade teacher would surely have marked that phrase in red and deducted points.

But it was 1960 when I was in third grade.. I suppose we had a different breed of teacher then. Tough old birds who didn’t tolerate sloppy work.