"This is the anarchy of Portland. It’s considered a provocation for citizens to record activities that happen in public. So they viewed me [as] provoking them because simply I walked around the demonstration with the camera. This didn’t just happen in a major American city; we were a stone’s throw away from the major institutions of the rule of law for the city: Courthouses, the central police precinct, the sheriff’s office. I could actually see these buildings while I was getting beaten by this mob. What happened is, they were marching in front of the Justice Center. And then somebody ran from behind and bashed me in the back of my head. I don’t know with what. It was very hard. As soon as I sort of got my footing, before I could even realize what had happened, then the hits just kept coming to the front, to the back.
I lost control of – I was holding my GoPro in my hand and my phone, and my camera equipment was stolen in that moment, by somebody who was dressed head to toe in black. I thought the worst of it was over. It wasn’t. So what happened next was, this so-called peaceful milkshake protest. The people who were came with milkshakes throwing that at me, hurling it directly in my face so I couldn’t even see which way to walk out. And then more people charged in to punch me to kick me. They were particularly targeting my head in my eye, and I stumbled away. There was absolutely no police."