Portland police e-mail seems in charge victims for anti-ICE protest assaults

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An e-mail from a Portland police sergeant appeared to criticize three folks he described as "counter-protesters" after confronting anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protesters exterior an immigration facility and getting assaulted.

The e-mail from Sgt. Andrew Braun of the Portland Police Bureau was filed in Oregon federal court docket within the state's lawsuit towards President Donald Trump, and noticed by Andy Ngo , a senior editor on the Submit Millennial who ceaselessly covers Antifa and U.S. protests.

Within the e-mail, dated Sept. 21, Braun writes, "these 3 counter-protesters proceed to be a continual supply of police and medical calls at ICE."

The three people are listed as victims within the e-mail and recognized as Rhein Amacher, 35, Chelly Bouferrache, 56, and Katelyn Daviscourt, 31.

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Regulation enforcement officers stand after deploying tear fuel exterior a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility throughout a protest on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photograph/Jenny Kane)

"Regardless of repeated recommendation from officers to keep away from the ICE crowd, they continuously return and antagonize the protesters till they're assaulted or pepper sprayed," Braun writes of the three people within the e-mail. "They refuse or are reluctant to stroll away from these confrontations, even when police are within the space attempting to satisfy with them."

Amacher describes himself as a "Proper-wing Provocateur," in response to his related X account. An X account related to Bouferrache states she is a "Blue state dissident" and "Anti-Communist." Daviscourt is an investigative reporter with the Submit Millennial.

All three X accounts related to the people share video and protection of the latest anti-ICE protests in Portland .

Fox Information Digital was unable to instantly attain the three victims recognized within the e-mail for remark.

Regulation enforcement officers standoff towards demonstrators exterior a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility throughout a protest on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photograph/Jenny Kane)

Anti-ICE protests have continued throughout the nation in latest weeks in Portland and close to Chicago. On Saturday, federal agents were rammed and boxed in by 10 automobiles close to Broadview, Illinois, the place anti-ICE crowds have been gathering for days and practically a dozen folks have been arrested.

Earlier this summer season, President Donald Trump deployed Nationwide Guard troops to Los Angeles in response to immigration enforcement protests. On Saturday, a federal decide in Oregon temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying the Nationwide Guard in Portland as a part of the lawsuit introduced by the state and metropolis.

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Braun’s e-mail contended that the three victims "even interact in the identical trespassing habits on federal and trolley property as the primary protesters."

Braun additionally described a "disturbance" that occurred on Sept. 20 exterior the ICE facility involving Amacher and 12 protesters. He wrote {that a} protester pepper-sprayed Amacher and a second "counter-protester."

Braun wrote that there have been as many as 50 protesters gathered that night time, describing them as "extra agitated than most nights," which led him to request further police help.

Regulation enforcement officers stand in tear fuel exterior a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility throughout a protest on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photograph/Jenny Kane)

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Officers looked for the pepper-spray suspect however have been unsuccessful, in response to Braun, who added that officers have been capable of keep away from a confrontation with the "foremost crowd" of protesters. He famous that the agitated demeanor of the protesters shifted, and so they started to interrupt up as police drove by way of the world a number of instances.