‘I hit the ground’: Portland victim Adam Haner speaks out following brutal attack

Haner said he was at a 7-Eleven in downtown Portland when he saw people trying to steal a woman’s backpack.

“Seen her get struck a couple of times, and I got between that. I was like, ‘This is not your enemy, what are you guys doing?’ They split off,” Haner said of the mob of people.

Police said this week that they are looking for a transgender woman Haner was trying to help before the mob turned on him.

“Investigators learned that the victim may have been trying to help a transgender female who had some of her thing stolen in the area of Southwest Taylor and 4th Ave, the location where this incident began. That person has not been contacted, and their identity is unknown. Investigators would like to speak to this person,” police said in a statement Tuesday.

The crowd then reportedly turned their attention to Haner and his girlfriend, Tammie Martin. The crowd called him a white supremacist and also pushed Martin to the ground and then punched her, a local Fox affiliate reported.

Haner and Martin decided to get out of the area in different cars, but the power steering stopped working in Martin’s pickup truck.

“And before I even got my door open,” he said, “someone was yanking me out, and I hit the ground. And then I sat there for a while, and they wouldn’t let me get up.”

Video shows that Haner sustained multiple blows during the attack, including one to the head that left him unconscious.

“Next thing I knew,” Martin recalled, “I found him on the ground unconscious, and when I got there, he was on the ground. I didn’t know if he was breathing, and I didn’t know what happened.”

Portland police announced Tuesday they launched a manhunt for the suspect in the attack, Marquise Love, who also goes by the name “Keese” Love.