Inside the Antifa Mob Attack That Nearly Killed Me for a Second Time

On May 28, 2021, I ran for my life through the streets of downtown Portland, Ore. Antifa had discovered me working undercover after one of their members, John Hacker, exposed me to the mob. I screamed for help as I fled, but drivers and pedestrians looked away. The businesses were all shuttered, remnants of the ongoing destruction from the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots. There was nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. They caught me. Antifa tackled me to the ground, tearing my knee tendon in the process as I slid across the pavement. They punched me over and over and tried to choke me into unconsciousness. I barely managed to stumble into the Nines Hotel, begging the staff to call 911. Instead, they tried to force me back outside and told me to wear a Covid mask. I dropped to the floor, refusing to move, pleading for them to call the police. They refused. Outside, Antifa gathered. One of their ringleaders, Elizabeth Richter — the blonde woman — began rallying the crowd. She called on others on a livestream to come finish me off. She went inside the hotel and threatened me. Antifa also tried breaking their way into the hotel. I escaped only by jumping into an elevator with a hotel guest. After that, I was taken by ambulance to the hospital with a police guard. I was soaked in my blood. On social media, Antifa immediately began trying to track which hospital I was in, hoping to finish the job. Portland Police closed the case a few weeks afterward, saying they couldn’t identify anyone. Nobody was ever arrested, just like in 2019 when I was beaten to the point that my brain bled. Earlier this week, President Trump announced that his administration would be designating Antifa a terrorist organization. What happens next remains to be seen. If you want to read more about this, I wrote about it in the second-edition paperpack update to my book, “Unmasked.” What happened afterward? In 2023, at a civil trial in Portland, I sued John Hacker and Elizabeth Richter, two Antifa militants involved in that mob attack in the video above. A liberal judge allowed the defense's objection to the damning Twitter DMs between the two on the night of the attack from being shown to jurors. The trial was marred by multiple security threats that resulted in jurors being rushed out for safety reasons. Hacker's lawyer told the jurors in the closing statement that she was Antifa and, “I'm going to remember every one of your faces when you leave here.” They rendered a not liable verdict for both. Dustin Ferreira, the man in the wheelchair inciting the mob to try to break into the hotel to attack me, was given a $400,000 settlement last year by Portland for being arrested at a riot. Read more at: https://www.ngocomment.com/p/inside-the-antifa-mob-attack-that Support my journalism at www.ngocomment.com