ANDY NGO REPORTS: Militants attack Post Millennial journalists reporting on trial of Portland Antifa leader Alissa Azar

A reporter for The Post Millennial has been assaulted by an Antifa associate while covering the trial of Portland Antifa member Alissa Eleanor Azar in Clackamas County, Ore.

Katie Daviscourt was hit repeatedly with a door by a woman with pink hair who had earlier been seen meeting defendant Azar outside the courthouse in Oregon City. 


A friend of Alissa Azar, second from the right with pink hair, attacked The Post Millennial reporter Katie Daviscourt. Photo: Chelly Boufferrache

The Post Millennial reporter Katie Daviscourt recently interviewed Lara Trump

Witnesses who saw the attack are speaking with sheriff’s deputies. The incident is being investigated.

The attack comes amid intimidation and harassing incidents by Azar’s friends and supporters in her ongoing felony trial. Azar is accused of felony riot, disorderly conduct and unlawful use of pepper spray stemming from an Antifa attack on a woman at a park in Oregon City in 2021. 

Chelly Boufferrache, a freelance photographer on assignment for TPM, was repeatedly harassed by Azar associate, John Hacker, at the courthouse. Law enforcement officers have warned him to leave her alone.

Hacker, who calls himself a journalist, was recorded on video participating in the riot with Azar in 2021.

Ben West, a county commissioner for Clackamas County who is viewing the trial, told The Post Millennial Hacker had also attempted to intimidate him for being there. West has been critical on his social media of far-left violent extremism and political violence.

"Mr. Hacker has repeatedly attempted to intimidate and heckle me into a confrontation,” West told TPM. “In Clackamas, we will not acquiesce to known violent Antifa members coming to instill fear through violence.”

Hacker was one of the defendants in this reporter’s Ngo v. Rose City Antifa, et. al case last year. He admitted on the stand to physically attacking this reporter out of rage and an inability to control his emotions. During that trial in July and August in Multnomah County, where Portland is located, Azar was barred from entry one day after sheriff’s deputies found her trying to enter the courthouse with a potential weapon, a shiv-like device. 

TPM reporter Katie Daviscourt also had her vehicle’s windows smashed up at the conclusion of that trial.

John Hacker is a violent Portland Antifa activist who admitted in two court proceedings to attacking Andy Ngo. Photo: Brandon Farley

Alissa Azar has been repeatedly arrested at Antifa riots in Portland, Ore. but not prosecuted by the Soros-funded DA, Mike Schmidt

Tensions have been increasingly high in the court as Antifa put out an emergency call on social media for comrades to surge to the courthouse to support Azar. Presiding Judge Todd L. Van Rysselberghe banned the use of electronic devices in the public gallery and prohibited media from photographing the trial over fears that jurors could be identified and targeted. 

Antifa members online have previously adopted a tactic of trying to identify jurors in cases involving their members to harass and intimidate them.

On Thursday, a woman in the court associated with Azar through prior Antifa direct actions was chastised by the judge for using her mobile phone. Judge Van Rysselberghe told her she could be held in contempt of court for violating his order.

Azar’s trial remains ongoing amid tight security restrictions.


Alissa Azar’s friends and supporting attorney outside the Clackamas County courthouse. Photo: Chelly Boufferrache

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