DOJ Launches Investigation Into Antifa Mob Attack on Conservative Journalist in Portland

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The Department of Justice has launched an investigation into a recent Antifa mob attack on a conservative journalist in Portland Oregon.

Post Millennial reporter Katie Daviscourt was assaulted by antifa domestic terrorists late Friday while covering an anti-ICE “May Day” riot outside the Portland ICE facility.

Daviscourt posted footage early Saturday showing how she was surrounded by the screeching, menacing mob and hit in the face with a rock.

“Aright, so—I’m pretty sure I’m in danger and I am going to leave,” Daviscourt can be heard saying just prior to getting pelted. “They just threw a rock at my face!” she exclaimed, breaking into a run, with several of the violent leftists in close pursuit.

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“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. I have zero desire to discuss this further, but everyone is tired of it and wondering why a crackdown on Antifa — a terrorist organization—has not yet occurred,” she wrote on X.

“And in case anyone was wondering, this is an Antifa flag,” Daviscourt added. “This direct action was organized by Antifa, a terrorist group. Why are they allowed to mobilize to attack federal property, etc, in the first place? Would ISIS be treated the same way?”

Portland police made a total of  five arrests outside the ICE facility in South Portland, Fox 12 reported. After agitators rattled the gates and threw objects at officers, the five rioters were detained and charged with various misdemeanor offenses.

• Michael Duntley, 58: Charged with reckless endangering, second-degree criminal mischief, and second-degree disorderly conduct.
• Jaelynn Hemsley, 29: Charged with third-degree criminal mischief.
• Cole Dunahugh, 22: Charged with second-degree trespass.
• Catherine Esperanza, 30: Charged with interfering with a peace officer and resisting arrest.
• Payton Reed, 22: Charged with harassment.

No arrests appear to have been made in connection to the assault on Daviscourt.

The petite journalist was also assaulted by an Antifa agitator outside the same ICE facility last fall, and the Portland Police failed to make an arrest that time, as well.

“The suspect walked up to me and hit me in the face with her flag pole, swinging it like a baseball bat,” she recounted on X on September 30.

Afterward, the Portland police watched as anti-ICE agitators scuttled the female suspect to an “antifa safehouse.”

Daviscourt suffered a black eye and concussion from that attack.

Following the May Day assault, Daviscourt urged the Justice Department to take action against the violent extremists.

“A perimeter needs to be established outside the Portland ICE facility where demonstrators can no longer gather. At all,” she wrote. “What the crowd has been doing is not First Amendment protected rights. Move fast. And take them down.”

The journalist added: “There needs to be a policy that if federal police observe individuals outside the facility in black bloc, or more than 2 of them in bloc, then the protest gets shut down. Antifa has free rein in Portland.”

Saturday night, the Justice Department confirmed in a succinct post that it had taken up the case.

“Investigation has been launched,” DOJ Rapid Response wrote on X in response to Daviscourt.

In September 2025, Trump signed an executive order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, describing it as a “militarist, anarchist enterprise” involved in violence, recruitment, and efforts to conceal operations and funding.

The order directed federal agencies (including the FBI, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, Treasury Department, and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate, disrupt, and prosecute related activities, explicitly including actions against those who fund such operations or provide “material support.”

Last week, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that three people had been indicted on federal charges in connection to an anti-ICE mob attack on Turning Point USA reporter Savanah Hernandez in Minnesota.