#Elderly Portland woman confronts protesters, gets splattered with paint

A 77-year-old Portland woman pleaded with anti-police protesters to stop the destructive vandalism amid weeks of unrest in the city — only to have paint dumped over her head, video shows.

The elderly woman, only identified as Cobey, approached one group of protesters with her walker outside the Portland Police Bureau’s East Precinct station house Thursday night to tell them any destruction was “not OK,” news station KGW-TV reported.

“I just got heated under the collar and said ‘Hey, this is not OK. This is my neighborhood, you’re not helping my black friends,’” she told the outlet.

But her message wasn’t well-received by the demonstrators — who responded by hurling blue paint and tossing caution tape at her.

Video posted to Twitter from the aftermath of the episode showed a paint-soaked Cobey standing defiant as one of the demonstrators yells in her face.

“You really believe in this?” he could be heard shouting.

Cobey said she doesn’t plan to press charges, but she still stands by her message.

“It’s not OK to destroy property. You can say what you have to say, but be part of the solution, not part of the problem,” she told the outlet.

Portland has seen near-daily protests against police brutality since the cop-involved killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May.

Some of the Oregon demonstrations have escalated to violence, including during the two weeks in July when the Trump administration deployed federal agents to protect the federal courthouse downtown.