From Portland to D.C., Antifa fake "press" are popping up everywhere. They use loopholes that allow journalists to go behind police lines to assault officers. They often act as human shields between riot police and Antifa. The police know how this works and often target the fake "press" for arrest, but they don’t always get it right. We have to expose them.
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| Welcome back to Who Wants to Date a Transgender Fake Antifa Press member. | ||
| I'm your host, Elijah Schaefer, here on another incredible episode of Slightly Offensive, the best worst show on Blaze TV. | ||
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| Yeah, Deidre Rose Watts is a member of the fake Antifa Press Corps. | ||
| You can usually identify them by number one, having some sort of satanic, demonic looking type face. | ||
| But on a more real note, you also see things that press don't do, like putting their pronouns on their plate carrier. | ||
| Also writing Black Lives Matter and showing your political partisanship on display for everyone. | ||
| Not to mention the hat with the Rosa written on top of it with your name so you can easily be identified by people as you get arrested while assaulting police officers. | ||
| Yes, fake Antifa press is not just something that I want to laugh at, even though they are funny looking people. | ||
| And it is truly sad how absolutely physically challenged Antifa has become. | ||
| They really do, they really are not good looking people. | ||
| And I feel bad for them. | ||
| It must suck. | ||
| This is about the fake Antifa Press, your favorite fake, fake Antifa Press host, me, Elijah Schaefer. | ||
| As you can see, I am dressed up like them because they dress up like me, but then I dress up like them dressing up like me. | ||
| It's a very, very confusing circle jerk in 2020. | ||
| And it really doesn't make any sense. | ||
| But I want to expose them because some bad stuff has been happening. | ||
| And we need to realize that governments, community members, local leaders are working together to try to make opportunities for the police to get attacked by those that present themselves as press, but ultimately end up just attacking the police behind police lines. | ||
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| Anyway, let's jump right into this. | ||
| So the fake Antifa press, there's an issue here. | ||
| And this is something that we got to talk about. | ||
| I have a history with the Antifa press, and I started noticing their prevalence when I was covering the riots. | ||
| And they continued to use their newfound court-ordered press immunity to attack the cops. | ||
| And the cops realized that they're not actually press. | ||
| And so, of course, myself and others who are mixed in with these individuals actually documenting the riots were then attacked by the police, per se. | ||
| And then this is what people do. | ||
| They go, oh my gosh, look at this. | ||
| The police, they're throwing flashbangs. | ||
| They're trying to disrupt us. | ||
| I'm just, I can't do this anymore. | ||
| They're trying to disrupt us. | ||
| They're trying to attack us. | ||
| Look at the police. | ||
| The police attacks the press. | ||
| And you start getting bills like this one in California, which is SB 629, which would make it a misdemeanor for law enforcement to intentionally obstruct, detain, assault, otherwise prevent the press from covering such events, according to a news release from McGuire's office. | ||
| And it sounds so good. | ||
| The big bad police are attacking all of these really nice people. | ||
| But then it turns out they're not actually press. | ||
| They're just transgenders with five o'clock shadows LARPing and putting us all in danger. | ||
| Right before that video was shot of the police, I would say attacking us, quote unquote. | ||
| Look at what the press was doing, throwing tear gas canisters back at the police. | ||
| I mean, who does that? | ||
| Not real press. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| This is why the police are upset because people are abusing this freedom of the press, this idea of our First Amendment rights to free speech, and they're using it to deceive the police and attack them. | ||
| And they need to be exposed. | ||
| Well, one article was written by Harvard Research for MIT that identified the dangerous press that are out there. | ||
| And no, it is not what you're thinking. | ||
| It's none other than me and Andy. | ||
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| Wow. | ||
| Who would have thought with all of these dangerous press attacking police, getting arrested, causing problems, governments chilling for them? | ||
| It's not them who's the danger at the riots. | ||
| It's people like me, which I'm putting this back on for my identity, okay? | ||
| I've got to be covert and overt. | ||
| Literally, this author, Joanne Donovan, I believe is their name. | ||
| I'm not sure if that's a boy or a girl. | ||
| I think it's a girl. | ||
| Everybody's had a teacher who looks like this. | ||
| Just good gosh, just why do these people all look the same? | ||
| Really, truly, not attractive people. | ||
| And I'm not mocking them. | ||
| It's just sad that you look like that and that you probably like, you don't even, you can't even control what you eat, but you somehow are an expert on information and the war about journalism. | ||
| It blows my mind. | ||
| Anyway, this article from the post-millennial says, in a shocking display of gaslighting, a new article in MIT Technology Review attempts to make the arguments that the coverage of the riots in independent media is to blame for spreading violence that has been seen across America. | ||
| Joanne Donovan's position is that right-wing protesters have been fueled by riot porn into taking the streets themselves. | ||
| And it's quoted saying directly here: these narratives have been intensified and supplemented by the work of right-wing adversarial media makers like Elijah Schaefer and Andy No., who collect videos of conflict at public protests and recirculate them to their audiences. | ||
| So instead of actually talking about, I don't know, the real problems like rioters or the real problems like fake Antifa press, this heifer of a woman, really truly gifted in size, really truly, decides to attack Andy and myself as being the cause, literally, of more violence in the country. | ||
| That's some of what we're doing, genuinely covering these things and trying to explain that these people are criminals and not real, were the ones who are who are wrong. | ||
| And isn't that absolutely crazy? | ||
| This is a researcher from Harvard and MIT. | ||
| Talk about universities absolutely being a waste of money. | ||
| I mean, these are the people teaching your kids. | ||
| It's absolutely foolish. | ||
| But I will tell you this. | ||
| You know, the press is under real threat. | ||
| Right here, you have a letter. | ||
| This is so sad. | ||
| You want to know something sad? | ||
| This letter was mailed to my parents, to my dad and my dead mom. | ||
| Disrespectful to send mail to somebody's dead mom. | ||
| This is actually pretty disgusting, but I'll tell you this. | ||
| It's from me. | ||
| That's my middle name, Daniel, in case you didn't know. | ||
| Elijah Daniel. | ||
| It doesn't have a return address. | ||
| And it was mailed to my parents' home address with some very bizarre stuff that I'm not going to read. | ||
| Essentially, claiming Trump's like a child molester and talking about threatening stuff about churches and pastors. | ||
| My dad's an evangelical pastor. | ||
| I know PKs are always the worst. | ||
| Anyway, this document here was mailed. | ||
| And I told my little sister actually opened it up, who lives still at their house. | ||
| And I told them when they get suspicious packages or threats, please don't open them. | ||
| Just turn them over to me. | ||
| I'll turn them over to the police. | ||
| Because obviously this could have had some sort of, I don't know, anthrax. | ||
| I mean, I'm not underlying the threat here. | ||
| Press genuinely are attacked, especially people who are still telling the truth. | ||
| And that being said, I'll tell you this: you know, these bills that are being put into place and this person attacking us, you know, I'm not the one that's the problem. | ||
| You know, all these press complain, oh my gosh, you attacked me. | ||
| You pushed me. | ||
| You threatened me. | ||
| That's not what real press do. | ||
| You know, when I was back in Portland, the DHS broke my leg. | ||
| They broke my leg. | ||
| Yeah, they literally, they lit, I mean, you guys know this, but they shot a can out of a grenade launcher, essentially, at my shin point blake, and they cracked open my shin and I couldn't walk for a couple weeks, really. | ||
| It was really intense. | ||
| I did report on it the next night until it was like starting in flame and pus was coming out of my leg. | ||
| And so I had to go back to the hotel. | ||
| And then I was on the plane from Portland to DC and my leg was like two times its normal size. | ||
| Anyway, that's what I do to get you guys the stories. | ||
| The attacks on the free press are alarming. | ||
| And the way that we are creating this false ulterior motive is absolutely even more a shame. | ||
| Now, one individual who is an activist, a right-wing activist, and went out to see what was going on in Portland is Taylor Hansen, who's famous for making baby lives matter at murals. | ||
| And he found out very quickly how rough it really can be out there. | ||
| He was arrested the first night that he went out there to check it out and report. | ||
| And then he was beat up by Antifa and some of these fake observers and press individuals the next night. | ||
| And so I want to welcome to the show for the first time, Taylor Hansen. | ||
| Thanks for having me on. | ||
| Yeah, so let's talk about this for a second. | ||
| Let's get into your history. | ||
| Let's get into what happened. | ||
| So apparently you went out to Portland to cover Antifa. | ||
| Talk to me through why you went up there. | ||
| Because I was tired of them beating people in the streets. | ||
| And I mean, just seeing on a daily basis of something new coming out, what really motivated me to come out to Portland instead of somewhere like Seattle was the shooting of Jay. | ||
| That's when I just woke up and I just was done with all of it. | ||
| Yeah, I know. | ||
| We talked to Chandler Papa's friend who was there with him the night he got killed. | ||
| But to be real with you, man, first of all, as I alluded earlier in the podcast, I'm just glad that you're okay. | ||
| I'm glad that you're safe. | ||
| You look pretty, you look pretty roughed up. | ||
| Are you doing okay? | ||
| Yeah, I'm doing all right. | ||
| I'm still, we're still pretty, though. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I mean, you look a little bit like a douchier Justin Bieber that like maybe used meth or something last night. | ||
| Hey, it happens. | ||
| You really do. | ||
| I mean, you look rough, but I'm just glad that you're fine. | ||
| And before we jump into the story, I mean, did you break any bones? | ||
| I mean, I mean, are you, did you go to the hospital? | ||
| Because I want to make sure you're okay. | ||
| A lot of times people, when they get jumped, they think they're okay, but they have concussions or splintering in the bones. | ||
| I mean, have you been seen by a doctor? | ||
| No, I haven't been seen by a doctor. | ||
| I feel like I definitely have a concussion, though. | ||
| Yeah, you can feel it. | ||
| And you're doing, but you just make sure if you feel any sort of discomfort, please get checked in. | ||
| But let's also talk about this. | ||
| So you went on your first night and you were covering the riots that were going on for over 100 days now. | ||
| And from my understanding, you got tied in accidentally with the fake Antifa press. | ||
| Can you please allude on what the fake Antifa press are in your perspective to people and how you managed to get arrested on your first trip to Portland? | ||
| Honestly, I mean, the fake Antifa press are so easy to spot. | ||
| They sit there and they paint yellow press all over their bodies or their helmet, or they get a sticker and put it on their helmet that says press. | ||
| And then they sit there and berate the cops and, you know, do all the same things that these Antifa and BLM members are doing, but they're disguised as press when the cops know they aren't pressed because you don't sit there and yell at officers if you're pressed. | ||
| You're sitting there being unbiased and actually recording what you're supposed to be doing. | ||
| And these people, they're just so obvious in themselves. | ||
| And I think the reason why I got arrested was I wasn't identified as press. | ||
| I was kind of dressed as black block, but I was recording and I did have a lot of press gear, but I didn't have any fancy, you know, press tape or a press vest or anything like that. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So essentially, you went out there a little bit undercover, which I do sometimes myself. | ||
| And I don't know if you see this. | ||
| I got a, this is my, my, this is not me undercover. | ||
| I got my free Kyle t-shirt. | ||
| It's true, free Kyle 2020. | ||
| But, you know, he didn't make it out so well from these confrontations. | ||
| But you sort of got mixed in with Antifa and you got, but you got arrested. | ||
| You got put in jail. | ||
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What? | |
| So can you tell me how you how you got yourself in jail? | ||
| Because that's a very interesting story to me. | ||
| Yeah, so they were doing a push. | ||
| It was at the North Precinct, I believe. | ||
| It was the second night that I was out here, day 101. | ||
| And, you know, I was just trying to get a good shot of an arrestee. | ||
| The sergeant was walking towards me with him after he had just cuffed him on the vehicle. | ||
| And I was, you know, backing up, getting a really good view and a good shot of it. | ||
| And that's when he turned his eyes and focused on me and walked right up to me. | ||
| And I knew that he was about to arrest me. | ||
| He just said, You're arrested and grabbed him by the shoulder. | ||
| And, you know, I complied. | ||
| I have the arrest video. | ||
| I just haven't done anything with it yet. | ||
| Yeah, you're 20 years old, from my understanding, and you already have an arrest video. | ||
| I'm sure your parents are proud of you. | ||
| What do they think of what you're doing? | ||
| You know, they think it's dangerous and they're not really sure why I'm doing it. | ||
| But I do come from a family of law enforcement. | ||
| So they understand my passion for, you know, these kind of people disrespecting these cops and essentially killing these cops in the street. | ||
| Yeah, I was gonna say, so a guy named Jay, or you know, Mr. Danielson gets murdered, and you go, okay, this is a good weekend right after that. | ||
| I should probably get up there and spend time with these people, even though I'm a rookie. | ||
| And, you know, I always, I people don't know. | ||
| You and I know each other. | ||
| We're friends. | ||
| Crazy, crazy times together in DC. | ||
| Just a lot of fun hanging out, creating content, etc. | ||
| But I know that, you know, before this, you were mostly doing activism in terms of creating these murals, these Baby Lives Matter murals. | ||
| And then you jump into this. | ||
| How'd you make the jump? | ||
| Really? | ||
| I mean, because, yeah, it started with the Baby Lives Matter murals and raising awareness for abortion and human trafficking, but it just wasn't enough for me. | ||
| You know, there are so many topics to address and that need to be addressed that people aren't willing to do. | ||
| And the journalist crisis is just one of the biggest in the nation right now. | ||
| And we don't have any real news sources, in all honesty. | ||
| So I figured I would go to the streets and do it myself. | ||
| Yeah, well, I mean, I could say you got some good footage, but at the same time, you know, I think we've been over this. | ||
| You go, and number one, you don't get arrested. | ||
| That's like kind of one of our main rules. | ||
| Number two, you also try not to get jumped. | ||
| But, sir, if this was a game, you would be winning because you got all the points in one weekend. | ||
| So I bring this up with the fake Antifa press. | ||
| You know, it's really pretty damning and difficult to cover these events. | ||
| I don't know about you, but either you can go undercover and you risk actually getting arrested, but you can get a better shot. | ||
| But then if you mark yourself press, then you get targeted more easily. | ||
| But then at the same time, it doesn't even matter anymore because there's so much fake press. | ||
| It's like everybody's Antifa. | ||
| And so there's like no way to actually know if somebody is Antifa or not, which is why California even introduced a bill that would prevent police from interfering with press. | ||
| But Bill Mulligan of Fox News, he found fake Antifa press helmets confiscated. | ||
| I mean, these guys are getting smart. | ||
| They're adapting. | ||
| You got to give them some credit, right? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, most definitely. | ||
| And they are adapting. | ||
| They just need to adapt to the point of where they're not sitting there and berating the police. | ||
| So they're not making it so obvious that they're Antifa press. | ||
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All right. | |
| So let's talk about the next night. | ||
| So you get out of jail. | ||
| You get your, I know you took a couple days to get your phone, but obviously you didn't get beat up in jail. | ||
| I'm really glad that both your face was protected and perhaps I'm assuming you didn't drop the soap either. | ||
| So everything else is in tip-top shape. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| Yeah, I wasn't the one that dropped the soap. | ||
| Whoever that Antifa was, I'm sure they enjoyed what came after. | ||
| But you got jumped. | ||
| Why did you get jumped? | ||
| Because I think people don't understand why this violence happens. | ||
| And I want to track with me here the story leading up to you getting jumped, how they jumped you, and what was going through your mind as this all happened. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| I really do believe that it started with them passing around my Instagram and then they started passing around my mug shot. | ||
| I had a press member come up to me and he recognized me from a few nights prior. | ||
| Me and him had done a lot of talking back and forth. | ||
| And he, you know, he was surprised that I was still there after I had gotten arrested. | ||
| And I guess he had seen some of my posts. | ||
| He found my Instagram or something. | ||
| He's like, you like, you don't belong here. | ||
| You shouldn't be here. | ||
| You know, you're like the Fox News. | ||
| You're spinning the narrative. | ||
| You're naming these people anarchists and people they aren't. | ||
| And that's kind of when my senses kind of went off a little bit. | ||
| And that's when I should have left. | ||
| And he walked away after we had a conversation. | ||
| I got some of that on camera. | ||
| And he immediately walked away to a group of Black Block and a few other Antifa and BLM individuals. | ||
| And it looked like he was showing them my Instagram or something. | ||
| And they were kind of looking my way. | ||
| So that's when I disappeared for a while down a few blocks and I got changed into my other disguise, you know, dropped my helmet, got my hat on, changed my shirt and kind of just changed my appearance a little bit. | ||
| And I met up with him a few blocks down and I was there for a while and I had been sitting on the corner, just kind of doing my own thing and keeping an eye out because I still felt like, you know, they might be looking for him, might have an eye out for me because they've been passing my mugshot around and they knew what I looked like. | ||
| And that's when two really suspicious men kind of walked up and they were on the corner and I got it all on video. | ||
| They were like, you know, whispering back and forth to each other and I saw them looking back at me. | ||
| And that's when they turned around and they said, hey, Taylor, like they addressed me by my name. | ||
| And that's when I knew. | ||
| So they didn't know your name. | ||
| That's really key. | ||
| People don't realize that they don't just dox you or try to find your accounts for any intent, that they want to intimidate you like they know something about you. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, they definitely knew exactly who I was. | ||
| And I'm not sure, honestly, how they recognized me until later on I was sent after I was jumped, I was sent a post on Twitter by one of my followers and they said, you know, this, be careful, this person just posted this. | ||
| And it looks like someone posted me on the corner where they came and actually found me and called me by my name and said, Taylor USA is here. | ||
| And he says that he infiltrated Antifa. | ||
| And it was a picture of me sitting there on my phone. | ||
| So that is, I believe that's how they ended up actually finding me and knowing exactly where I was. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So what when they actually found you and then they jumped you, how did that work out? | ||
| What happened in that exact situation? | ||
| So right after he, you know, they addressed me by my name, I just acknowledged them. | ||
| I said, hey, and I immediately started walking down the block and I made it a few blocks down. | ||
| And, you know, I thought I was in the clear. | ||
| I was looking for police because, you know, I didn't really know where my hotel was at. | ||
| And right then, I was just trying to get out of there as fast as possible. | ||
| And as I was walking right around the corner, I just got, you know, pushed a little bit and I turned and there were four of them. | ||
| One was an African-American and the rest were white. | ||
| There was four in total. | ||
| He was black. | ||
| You could just say he was black. | ||
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Black. | |
| There's white South Africans. | ||
| Remember that. | ||
| And yeah, that's when the beating kind of started. | ||
| I put up a fight as much as I could. | ||
| And the black individual grabbed me by my vest because I had a Kevlar vest under. | ||
| And he threw me on the ground. | ||
| And that's when they started kicking me in the back and punching me in the face again. | ||
| And as they were walking away, they said, stay out of Portland, bitch. | ||
| I was just lucky that they didn't, you know, have a knife or a gun or anything. | ||
| And I was just lucky to get out of there alive. | ||
| Hey, and this is where our jokes aside, we are just happy that we have you here, man. | ||
| I mean, I'm really, I mean, this stuff has been fatal before. | ||
| It could be fatal again. | ||
| And your life was really on the line. | ||
| Were you afraid? | ||
| Were you afraid at all for your life in that moment? | ||
| Did you feel like they could take things further? | ||
| Or did you feel like it was just that they were just rough housing? | ||
| I mean, by the looks of you, I mean, it looks like they hit you pretty hard. | ||
| Yeah, no, I was definitely afraid that they were just going to go until I wasn't breathing anymore. | ||
| I was just very glad that it only lasted, you know, a little while and they scattered pretty quickly. | ||
| But I was, you know, just thinking back at the moment, I'm very, very lucky that they didn't kill me because it was a very real possibility with what just happened with Jay. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, absolutely, dude. | ||
| I mean, for real, though, our thoughts and prayers are really with you. | ||
| And I have just information that you might want to know. | ||
| And I'll tell you this. | ||
| You might have never heard this before. | ||
| But number one, try not to get arrested. | ||
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And number two, try not to get jumped. | |
| But I don't make light of it because I've gotten pretty roughed up by these people as well over the course of the last few years. | ||
| I've seen it become potentially very incredibly serious beyond understanding. | ||
| And so I just want to let you know, man, you are welcome on the show anytime. | ||
| I think you have a bright future ahead of you. | ||
| Your parents are worried on purpose because you're obviously putting yourself in a lot of danger. | ||
| And I appreciate it while lazy people like myself are in a studio in Texas that you're actually out there putting in the hard work. | ||
| Where do people find you? | ||
| How do they find and support what you're doing? | ||
| Is there a way to promote your work, your activism? | ||
| Plug your links. | ||
| So on all platforms, Twitter, Parlor, Instagram, and Facebook now, as well as YouTube. | ||
| My at is TaylorUSA, what is T-A-Y-L-E-R-U-S-A, T-L-T-A-Y-L-E-R, how it's supposed to be spelt, it's Taylor USA. | ||
| And that's where you can find me. | ||
| And, you know, to help with the murals, I do have a GoFundMe up. | ||
| I do have a good amount of money in there that will last for a while, though. | ||
| And if you guys are, I mean, looking to support me in any way, my undercover work, you can just Venmo me at TaylorUSA once again. | ||
| Yeah, of course. | ||
| And again, thank you so much for coming on, Taylor. | ||
| Please stay safe. | ||
| Continue to get the good work out there. | ||
| But most importantly, don't die while doing this. | ||
| All right, man. | ||
| Absolutely. |