PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland protester, 46-year-old Julie Winters, made a first appearance in federal court yesterday after being charged by criminal complaint with assaulting a federal officer and resisting arrest during the August protests at the Portland Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in the second case against her this year.
Portland Protester Faces Assault Charges Over ICE Building Attack
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon indicated yesterday that Winters was arrested following an incident on August 20. Winters reportedly became hostile when U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) deputies attempted to arrest her for violating the conditions of her pretrial release for an earlier charge of assaulting a federal law enforcement officer arising from an incident on June 24.
Court documents indicate that officers observed Winters attempting to light an incendiary device next to the guard shack of the ICE office on June 24, 2025. Portland protests had erupted in violence earlier that month.
As Federal Protective Service officers engaged with Winters, she pulled a large knife…