Trump's Storm Troopers were no match for the power of a lone naked woman facing off against them. They fired pepper balls at her feet but she just stood there and stared right through them. After 10 minutes they fled.
Source: Oregon Live
It was 1:45 a.m. Dave Killen, a photographer for The Oregonian/OregonLive, was nearing the end of his shift covering the nightly protests in Portland.
In the five hours he had been out, Killen and a group of protesters had been pushed by police northward on Third Avenue, he said, to its intersection with Taylor Street. Officers stood across the intersection, facing the group of protesters.
Then, a naked woman appeared. She walked out to the intersection in front of where police were standing. Killen said she was wearing only a face mask and a stocking cap while she was facing the police.
She paced the area near the crosswalk. She laid down, kicking up her feet. She did ballet poses.
“Everyone seemed surprised and kind of astounded,” Killen said.
Photos from Killen and independent journalist Donovan Farley went viral on social media. The woman hasn’t been identified, but she’s been dubbed by some as “Naked Athena.”
The officers shot pepper balls at her feet. Another protester ran out in front of her with a homemade shield, Killen added, but she sidestepped him and his shield.
“She definitely did not seem to invite him to do that,” Killen said.
The whole time, he said, he didn’t hear her say a word.
About 10 minutes after she arrived, the officers left. The woman left soon after without any additional fanfare.
“She was incredibly vulnerable,” Killen said. “It would have been incredibly painful to be shot with any of those munitions with no clothes on.”
And then? Naked Athena appeared and the little boys didn’t know what to do. pic.twitter.com/Elo69SsV0t
— Donovan “It was the blurst of times” Farley 💻🐒 (@DonovanFarley) July 18, 2020
Amazing. pic.twitter.com/HmP9r85SWV
— Donovan “It was the blurst of times” Farley 💻🐒 (@DonovanFarley) July 18, 2020
She won pic.twitter.com/XxHyI5JJoX
— Donovan “It was the blurst of times” Farley 💻🐒 (@DonovanFarley) July 18, 2020
"These cops got so confused they actually left... What sorcery is this? 🔥
Naked Athena in Portland..."
The revolution is female pic.twitter.com/HpGsz4ASQa— 𝕭𝖆𝖗𝖊𝖋𝖔𝖔𝖙 𝕭𝖗𝖚𝖏𝖆 👣🕯👣 (@barefootbruja) July 18, 2020
naked Athena of Portland Oregon making the cops back off protestors by stripping naked and sitting down in the street showing she has nothing to be of a threat to them so they couldn’t advance without cause ❤️❤️❤️ a queeeen pic.twitter.com/iNAHlv8lEN
— fallon (@cigsafterurex) July 18, 2020
Welcome to our lovely city!
Featured in this edition of my limited series, Portland Protest Postcards, is local celebrity Naked Athena.
(inspo from @annargriff, photo creds @DonovanFarley) pic.twitter.com/0SMKjcXnNl— Celina Tebor (@CelinaTebor) July 19, 2020
