5 highlights from Trump's Antifa roundtable: 'Protest industrial complex'

5. Some police departments inadequately responding to or encouraging Antifa 

While much of the discussion focused on Antifa’s hostility toward law enforcement, specifically ICE, multiple people at the roundtable mentioned that some law enforcement officials have inadequately responded to the threats posed by Antifa.

“The Portland Police Bureau has completely abandoned several blocks outside the ICE facility, giving away their jurisdiction to a terrorist group who has spent the past four months harassing, assaulting and intimidating anyone they perceive to be against their cause,” Daviscourt said. 

“Today, I am sitting here with a black eye and a concussion after being violently hit in the face with a metal pole while reporting outside the ICE facility just this past week,” she said.

The reporter expressed disgust that three Portland police officers “refused to detain the suspect,” prompting her to “chase down the suspect in the streets” and restrain her for 35 minutes. 

Daviscourt revealed that Portland police “never came,” and she witnessed fellow Antifa militants help her assailant escape to a “safe house.”

Other participants echoed Daviscourt’s analysis, with Hernandez agreeing that “there is no police force” in Portland and Noem recounting conversations she had with ICE agents in Portland who told her that “as they drove by the rioters that were saying ‘kill ICE agents,’” Portland police officers were “cheering them on and had their fists in the air.”