Elderly Portland Man In His Truck Is Blocked By ANTIFA, Has Weapons Drawn On Him, Then Gets Brutally Assaulted For Standing His Ground

A Portland handyman remains hospitalized from injuries sustained when he was beaten by a crowd of demonstrators amid an armed standoff with the protest’s self-appointed “security.”

Portland Police are trying to sort out exactly what happened Thursday afternoon that ended up sending Joseph Hall, 53, to the hospital.

Hall said that he had just finished a repair job at the nearby apartment complex and was heading home, when he swerved onto the street to avoid an oncoming moped. He heard someone yelling through a handheld radio to stop his red pickup truck. Hall looked in his rearview mirror and saw it was following him, so he pulled over into an alleyway on North Greeley Street near West 43rd Avenue. "I get out of my car like this," Hall said, gesturing with both hands up in the air as if surrendering.

Suddenly, people were surrounding his vehicle and they all had guns that looked like AR-15s.

He said he grabbed a nonlethal handgun that shoots hard pellets to try to get the people, who were calling him a Nazi, to clear out of his way, calling him a “Nazi.”

“They’re screaming and yelling at me, claiming I was out there trying to run people over. That’s when I discovered a march was going on,” Hall told the paper. ”I was trapped. A vehicle in front of me trapped me in. I couldn’t go forward or around.”

Portland police said in a statement that other drivers had complained about the crowd blocking the streets. “One person said people in the crowd broke out their vehicle windows, damaged tires, and sprayed them with some kind of irritant,” the statement said.

Cops are trying to collect videos and witness statements about the incident.

“All I wanted to do is leave,” said Hall, who has faced threats on social media. “I work with all race, creed, color, everybody. I will not sit back and let anybody that’s out there on social media call me anything other than what I really am. I’m a human being. My life was threatened.”