Portland police sergeant emails about counter-protesters at anti-ICE protests
An email from a Portland police sergeant appeared to criticize three people he described as “counter-protesters” after confronting anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protesters outside an immigration facility and being assaulted.
The email, from Sgt. Andrew Braun of the Portland Police Bureau, was filed in Oregon federal court in the state’s lawsuit against President Donald Trump and noticed by Andy Ngo, a senior editor at the Post Millennial.
Dated Sept. 21, Braun writes, “these 3 counter-protesters continue to be a chronic source of police and medical calls at ICE.” The three individuals are identified as Rhein Amacher, 35, Chelly Bouferrache, 56, and Katelyn Daviscourt, 31.
Braun wrote, “Despite repeated advice from officers to stay away from the ICE crowd, they constantly return and antagonize the protesters until they are assaulted or pepper sprayed. They refuse or are reluctant to walk away from these confrontations, even when police are in the area trying to meet with them.”
Amacher describes himself as a “Right-wing Provocateur” on X, Bouferrache’s X account calls her a “Blue state dissident” and “Anti-Communist,” and Daviscourt is an investigative reporter with the Post Millennial. Their accounts share video and coverage of recent anti-ICE protests in Portland.
Anti-ICE protests have continued across the country, including Portland and near Chicago. On Saturday, federal agents were rammed and boxed in by 10 cars near Broadview, Illinois, where anti-ICE crowds have been gathering for days and nearly a dozen people were arrested.
Earlier this summer, President Trump deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles in response to immigration enforcement protests. On Saturday, a federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland as part of the lawsuit brought by the state and city.
Braun’s email contended that the three victims “even engage in the same trespassing behavior on federal and trolley property as the main protesters.” He also described a disturbance on Sept. 20 outside the ICE facility involving Amacher and 12 protesters, during which a protester pepper-sprayed Amacher and a second “counter-protester.”
Braun wrote that as many as 50 protesters gathered that night, “more agitated than most nights,” prompting him to request additional police assistance. Officers searched for the pepper-spray suspect but were unsuccessful. He noted that the crowd began to break up as police drove through the area several times.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Portland Police Bureau for comment on the email but did not immediately hear back.
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