Protesters in Portland squared off with a woman wearing a swastika armband Wednesday night in front of her home, during another night of demonstrations in the city.
The heated confrontation was caught on video, showing the middle-aged woman and a group of black-clad protesters screaming at each other.
“Take it off! Take it off, you Nazi!” one man continuously yells at the woman, who is on the doorstep of her house in East Portland and wearing a red swastika armband on her left arm.
Other demonstrators point green lasers and a spotlight in her face as she screams back, “I didn’t say anything racist!”
The unidentified woman then shoves a protester and demands, “Get off my property!”
The protester tells her, “Go back inside your house,” warning her that she’ll get “f—ked up,” as a man in a blue T-shirt opens the door and tries to push her inside. She resists, and that’s when he tries to rip off her armband — sending her scrambling inside.
“It was pretty surreal to see that armband,” Laura Jedeed, who filmed the encounter, told Storyful. “You can see from the video that no one wanted to beat up some lady, but they needed her to stop being a Nazi.”
Jedeed said someone threw something at the woman’s window, causing the crowd to applaud, after she stopped filming.
A riot formed outside Portland police’s East Precinct Wednesday night, with the crowd ramming the front doors with 2-by-4s and lighting a fire, police said.
Cops responded by deploying tear gas and said several officers were nearly run over by a truck associated with the group.
