#Man stabbed at Portland protest says he was targeted for being conservative

A man knifed in the back during protests outside Portland’s federal courthouse said he was attacked for his conservative politics and activism, according to media reports.

“I was stabbed for being a conservative journalist,” Andrew Duncomb, 25, told the Oregonian of the caught-on-video attack Saturday.

Duncomb, a vocal supporter of President Trump, is a videographer who films demonstrations and political events under the moniker “Black Rebel,” the paper reported.

He traveled from his home in northern California last Friday to Portland to document the often violent and lawless nightly protests outside the boarded-up Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse.

“My main goal was to show it wasn’t just the feds creating the problem,” Duncomb told The Oregonian, referring to federal agents who were deployed to the city to control the unrest.

In the shocking video of the stabbing that occurred at about 2:30 a.m. a few blocks from the courthouse, Duncomb confronts a man later identified by police as Blake David Hampe.

The man, wearing Carhart overalls, a respirator and goggles, had allegedly been trailing Duncomb and his friends for several blocks. Duncomb handed his video camera to a pal, who was recording.

The footage shows Duncomb approach Hampe from behind, put his arm around him and ask, “Hey buddy, why are you following us?”

Hampe, without uttering word, allegedly slides a knife into Duncomb’s back, the video shows.

“Ow! Ow!” Duncomb shrieks before falling backward outside of the frame.

“Did you just stab him? Whoa, he just stabbed him!” shouts a man off-camera. “That dude just stabbed him, bro!” The man then yells, “The guy right there! Get him, Get him!”

Hampe, 43, was arrested at the scene and charged with second-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon. He’s being held on $250,000 bail, The Oregonian reported.

Duncomb, who said the blade entered his back between his hip and rib cage, was treated at a local hospital and released Sunday.

“The adrenaline just soared through me,” he told the newspaper. “I had a can of bear mace and a knife on me, too. But I didn’t want to endanger innocent bystanders.”

Duncomb, who has more than 20,000 Twitter and Facebook followers, said protesters had been alerted to his presence shortly after he arrived.

The conservative activist participated in the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which ended in bloodshed after a white supremacist rammed his car into a group of counter-protesters, killing one and injuring more than a dozen others, the paper reported.

Thursday marked the 63rd consecutive day of protests in Portland following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police May 25.

Demonstrators have clashed with federal agents, lobbing fireworks and bottles at them. The officers have responded by firing tear gas and impact munitions into the crowd.