The man who was brutally beaten by Protestants of Black Lives Matter in Portland had tried to intervene in a mugging before he was kicked unconscious, according to a report.
Drew Hernandez, a YouTuber who filmed the episode, said the man – identified by a witness other than Adam Haner – was a transgender woman who was beaten and robbed by Protestants Sunday before the group approached him, Fox News reported .
“They attacked her physically like crazy, so when they did … he actually started defending them and then they turned their attention to him,” Hernandez told the outlet.
Hernandez said it began to become ‘violent’, so the victim got into his truck and tried to escape.
“He’s starting to run his engine because I think he feels threatened,” said Hernandez, who claimed he had a full video of the incident but did not release it.
“I think he was just trying to scare them, because to be honest with you, if you really wanted to run into someone, he could have done it for sure.”
The man then drove away, but the mob continued to follow him, Hernandez said.
“They were just bored and they started following him down the street,” he said. “He would stop and kind of pull back, just try to free him, but he didn’t hit any of them.”
The club chased him a few blocks before crashing into his car and exiting, Hernandez said.
‘When they finally caught up with him, they went again. One of the BLM militants pulled out his own baton, started hitting him, and said he would get on the floor, ‘he said.
‘They start hitting him in the face, physically attacking him. Then one of the guys comes out of nowhere and dropkicks him from behind. ‘
Jorge Ventura, a Daily Caller reporter who also posted videos of the melody, said Haner appeared intoxicated during the violent episode in Portland downtown.
“He looked like he might have been drinking earlier in the evening,” Ventura told the Oregonian. “He was really discombobul.”
Sam Pape, who works at a bar in Northeast Portland called Church, told the paper that they were ‘absolutely sure’ that the driver and a woman also appeared in the video of the melody outside the watering hole earlier on. e evening, at 7 p.m.
Pape said they saw the couple rude and the man drank several glances of Miller Life for half an hour before getting into an argument with another man.
No arrests were made in the attack, although the district attorney condemned the mob’s actions.
“The actions depicted in these videos are universally dismissed as wrong – and the actions are illegal,” said Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt.
“Attacks are not tolerated in our community.”
The victim was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries, police said.
“The incident is being investigated and no arrests have been made,” authorities said.
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