Bouferrache, a freelance photojournalist and reporter for The Publica, a stay-at-home mom who began covering the news in 2016. What started as a part-time assignment turned into a hobby that led her to chaotic scenes in Berkeley, Portland. , Seattle and Los Angeles to cover up riots, protests, and riots. She ended up in Portland State when anti-Israel agitators occupied the campus library last week, and the ordeal made her a target.
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Chelly Bouferrache says she confronted suspected Antifa members last week at Portland State University. (Bouferrache)
“I ended up in Portland State a few days ago because I knew there was a camp there. I saw, of course, what I would see with the same old people, many other people in what they call the black bloc, black from head to toe. They cover their hands, they wear boots, they cover all the tattoos,” he said.
“I was talking to some PSU football players, I looked over my shoulder and it was a woman dressed in block. I covered it up in a trial. She was accused, I knew who she was and I knew she knew who I was. “I was threatened and deceived through Antifa on several occasions,” Bouferrache continued.
Bouferrache said she made it clear she didn’t need any mess and asked the woman to leave her alone. The woman first agreed and left, according to Bouferrache. That’s when she turned around and was approached through an organization of Antifa members.
“They started yelling at me to get out of there, and there were several of them, and they’re all over the park, so I wasn’t sure what to do and I was paralyzed in place. I started filming them, I let them know that I felt threatened,” Bouferrache said.
“I pulled out my pepper gel spray that I carry with me for cases like this (I only had to use it once) and just let them know I had it and didn’t go near it,” she said. Men kept coming up to me, taunting me, unable to spray him. “
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A photojournalist said he was the target of an anti-Israel protest at Portland State University. (Bouferrache)
Bouferrache footage shows the organization of masked Americans urging her to use pepper spray, while one of them announced they had an even bigger bomb. The guy then pulled out his can of pepper spray and started shaking it as he approached Bouferrache, he said.
“I’m not a big guy and a status on par with those other people rarely helps me much,” he said. “They probably wouldn’t be afraid of my strength or the fact that I can beat them. “
Later, while covering another protest at the school, Bouferrache said she reached out through an “Antifa observer,” who identified her as someone whose organization didn’t need to cover up her antics and alerted others to her presence.
“I looked out of the corner of my eye and saw another freelance photojournalist, and he was filming this total interaction and I was like, ‘Oh, great, he’s going to film them hurting me,’ and then he filmed another big guy. “He just goes after him and starts a fight with him,” Bouferrache said.
The video, provided to Fox News Digital, shows the reporter warning the alleged Antifa member to back off when the recording device suddenly ripped off his hand.
Bouferrache said he watched the assembly and filmed it. He went to retrieve his fellow journalist’s phone while he was fighting with the guy who had thrown it to the ground.
“I just got knocked down, and I don’t know how many other people there were, because I just didn’t waste my apparatus and I started screaming, and then I felt other people on my legs, so I started kicking. I heard, “This girl said ‘prevent,’ I looked up and it was a woman’s state. She was on top of me as they tried to take the braces off me and avoid them. She likes a general user who walks her dog,” Bouferrache. saying.
Chelly Bouferrache said she ran while trying to retrieve another photographer’s phone. (Bouferrache)
“The other people who are at Portland State University call themselves anti-fascists. They’re not anti-fascists, they’re left-wing extremists and they’ve been allowed to take whatever they need in this city, and I’ve noticed that in other cities,” he continued. I’m not sure what’s going to stop them from doing that if they never face the consequences. “
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He also posted pictures of him on social media.
“I edited a video of what happened to me when I was about to leave PSU here in Portland. It’s anything that’s a component of the territory. I’ve only put the highlights here. These sociopaths have wreaked havoc on the city for years. now,” Bouferrache wrote.
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Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Pritchett contributed to this report.
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