The organizers of peaceful Portland demonstrations protesting against police brutality condemned this brutal attack on a truck driver because police said no arrests had been made in the attack.
Sgt. Portland Police Department official Kevin Allen told Fox News early Tuesday morning that the man seen on video was brutally attacked during a late-Sunday car crash “recovering” from his injuries. Allen said police are continuing to investigate the case, but no arrests were made at 12:25 local time.
Shortly before 10:30 a.m. Sunday, police responded to a 911 call from someone who reported that Protestants were chasing “a white Ford” bicycle for four, which then crashed downtown, according to a press release from the department. . Demonstrators then pulled the driver out of the car, calling one caller. Another told police that an estimated nine to 10 people began “beating the man,” the caller explained.
When police arrived, they discovered the man unconscious and transported him to a local hospital.
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“Investigators learned that the victim may have been trying to help a transgender woman who stole some of her belongings in the vicinity of Southwest Taylor and 4th Ave, the location where the incident began,” police said late Monday.
Drew Hernandez, who videotaped the attack, told Fox Spins’ Dan Springer on Monday that he believed the man was helping the Transgender woman when the crowd began targeting him and the woman he was with. , who then got back in the car and drove out.
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“I think he just felt extremely threatened,” Hernandez said. “They chased him … until he finally crashed. When they finally caught him, they went nuts.
Hernandez described the attack as “extremely violent.”
“Sometimes I forget walking the streets of an American city in the Northwest,” he said. “Sometimes it feels like you’re running into a third world country.”
Meanwhile, some of the women behind Moms United for Black Lives told The Portland Mercury that the attack and similar instances of violence detracted from their intended purpose.
“We want the public to know that we are not the people who beat and rob people,” said one of the group’s co-founders and organizers, Danialle James, who commits such crimes. currently called. “
James, fellow organizer Elisha Warren, and several other members of the group have been protesting against police brutality and systemic racism since the end of May, when George Floyd, a Black man, died while in police custody. Floyd was handcuffed when a white police officer held his knee to his neck for nearly nine minutes, despite Floyd’s scream that he could not breathe.
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Warren told The Portland Mercury that the group ‘does not stand for what’s happening downtown. ‘
“The violence with people who are not with Black Lives Matter takes the story away,” she said, according to the report.
Louis Casiano of Fox News contributed to this report.
