A handful of violent left-wing thugs attacked federal officers whereas ‘protesting’ exterior the Portland ICE workplace earlier this month, and certainly one of these leftists is spending probably a lot of the remainder of her life behind bars.
The U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the District of Oregon introduced on Thursday that three rioters had been charged with a number of crimes, together with assaulting federal regulation enforcement officers. The three defendants made their first appearances in federal courtroom that day earlier than a U.S. Justice of the Peace Decide.
Listed below are the three people, together with their particular alleged crimes.
Julie Winters, 46, of Portland, has been charged by felony grievance with the felony of tried assault of a federal officer.
Aziel Chambers, 20, of Merlin, Oregon, has been charged by info with the misdemeanor offenses of assault on a federal officer, making a hazard on federal property, and failing to obey a lawful order.
Rachel Jean Pope, 28, of Portland, has been charged by info with the misdemeanor offense of assault on a federal officer.
In accordance with courtroom paperwork and data shared in courtroom, on June 24, 2025, a number of leftists organized close to an ICE workplace in South Portland. For a number of weeks, leftist rioters had been making an attempt to wreck the constructing and goal federal regulation enforcement officers with threats of violence, hurling pepper spray, and tossing different objects like rocks, trash, and bricks.
At roughly 11:15 pm, federal officers seen Winters making an attempt to gentle what was described as an incendiary machine subsequent to the guard shack of the constructing. Issues then escalated when FPS officers engaged her.
Winter responded by pulling out a big knife from her backpack and throwing it at an officer. Thankfully, the officer was not hit.
An officer then used a taser to take down Winters as she tried to flee, however hazard remained. She was in a position to pull out one other massive knife from her waistband earlier than one other officer lastly subdued and arrested her.
Chambers tried to blind a federal officer by striking him within the eye with a laser pointer that very same night. He has additionally been charged with failing to adjust to an officer’s orders to depart the premises on June 17 and throwing an object at federal property on June 20.
Out of the three, Winters faces probably the most extreme punishment. The U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the District of Oregon notes that felony assault of a federal officer and inflict bodily harm carries a possible 20-year jail sentence.
Pope and Chambers have been launched from jail pending future courtroom proceedings, presumably as a result of their alleged crimes are ‘misdemeanors.’ Winters stays in custody.
