Gory footage has emerged from Portland, Oregon that shows a female protester bleeding heavily from her chest after being stabbed by another woman.
In the clip, which was posted to TikTok, a woman wearing a black face-mask pulls down her top to reveal a bloody knife wound.
The shocking video which was shot in Lownsdale Square Park begins with the woman shouting ‘call the police!’ while the alleged knifewoman walks away from her.
Police also said that a 15-year-old boy was detained during Monday night’s protests after he allegedly pointed a gun at a group of people in a separate incident.
On Tuesday protesters once again took to the streets for the 69th straight day of violent demonstrations.
Footage emerged last night of a pickup struck speeding through the crowds before a man allegedly got out and brandished a gun at protesters as he fled the vehicle.
A Portland protester ended up being stabbed on Monday night by a woman. It happened in Lownsdale Square Park which has housed protesters for months
Black-clad demonstrators look down the street as a truck speeds through the streets of Portland last night
On Monday night, Portland Police confirmed they were called to reports of a stabbing and that a person was being treated in hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
‘I told you not to f*** with us,’ a man can be heard saying as the victim attempts to confront the woman who had attacked her in video of the aftermath.
‘You stabbed someone, you b****,’ the man says. ‘Drop the knife ma’am — you are not in danger.’
The woman ignores the request and continues to walk away with the knife on display.
Police say the incident began after a woman entered the park to take photos and video of the area where protesters have been housed for months.
She ended up getting into an argument with another woman who then ended up stabbing her in the chest and fled the scene.
She returned a short time later and was questioned however Portland Police have not confirmed whether an arrest has been made.
They said they had ‘encountered a hostile crowd’ at the scene while trying to investigate the stabbing.
Although officers originally managed to find the knife believed to have been used, someone else picked it up and ran off with it while police were trying to secure the scene.
‘Officers were unable to safely conduct an investigation due to the hostile crowd, and supervisors made the decision to disengage,’ Portland Police said in a statement. ‘As the knife is evidence, it should be returned to police custody.’
Demonstrators appeared to rush towards the truck before the driver allegedly jumped out and brandished a gun as he fled
A sedan (seen making a hasty U-turn in the middle of the street) appeared to flee from the scene in terror
On Tuesday night, 100 Black Lives Matter demonstrators met at the Peninsula Park at around 8.30pm before starting their march towards the Police Association building downtown, The Oregonian reported.
On their way they listened to speakers, chanted and set a trash bin on fire.
Shortly before 10.30pm, police warned them to stop trying to break into the police facility or they would use force and make arrests.
Half an hour later the situation unraveled when a pickup truck sped through the street as a crowd member hurled a motorbike in front of the vehicle.
Sparks were sent flying through the air as the bike scraped along the asphalt trapped beneath the front fender of the truck.
The driver got out of the vehicle and social media footage allegedly showed him brandishing a handgun and shouting at the protesters as he fled the scene.
An officer told the Oregonian that police were interviewing the driver.
Recent downtown protests have been markedly more peaceful than those from previous weeks, the local paper says.
The state police were charged with guarding the federal courthouse last week after President Donald Trump sent in more than 100 federal officers to secure the building earlier in July.
Trump’s decision increased tensions and was slammed by city, state and congressional officials.
A line of protesters blocks the street in front of the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse during a Black Lives Matter protest on August 2, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Portlands nightly protests have remained largely peaceful following last Thursdays announcement that federal officers would begin a phased withdrawal from the city
On Tuesday, the US Attorney’s office confirmed that federal prosecutors have produced no evidence linking dozens of people arrested in anti-racism protests in Portland to the antifa or anarchist movements.
‘We have not alleged defendant affiliation with any specific groups or ideologies in our cases stemming from recent Portland protests,’ said Kevin Sonoff, the spokesman. ‘Our cases focus purely on the criminal conduct alleged.’
Trump and officials in his administration have applied the labels to the Portland protesters, who set fires around, and threw objects at, officers around a federal courthouse during long-running confrontations.
‘I think there are anarchists and far-left groups involved in the violence in Portland,’ Attorney General William Barr said in testimony before Congress last week. ‘I think antifa is involved in Portland.’
Antifa, which stands for anti-fascist, is a largely unstructured, far-left movement whose followers broadly aim to confront those they view as authoritarian or racist.
The Portland federal prosecutor’s office said it arrested more than 40 people on charges ranging from failing to obey lawful orders and operating a drone in restricted airspace to arson and assaulting a deputy U.S. marshal with an explosive device.
In a July 26 internal memo first reported by the Lawfare.com blog, Brian Murphy, a former FBI agent who was serving as acting chief of the Department of Homeland Security’s Intelligence and Analysis office, suggested calling many Portland protesters ‘Violent Antifa Anarchists Inspired.’
Murphy was transferred to a different job over the weekend.
The Democrat who chairs the U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee, Representative Adam Schiff, said on Monday that his panel would investigate the actions in Portland of that DHS office and its response to other anti-racism protests across the country. The Senate Intelligence Committee has launched similar inquiries.