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© Associated PressBlack Lives Matter protests continue in Portland, OR
Black cops in Portland are being subjected to vile racist taunts from white Black Lives Matter demonstrators, one of the officers said in a new interview.

Officer Jakhary Jackson, a member of Portland police's rapid response team that has responded to ongoing protests for nearly 50 straight days, said what he's seen has been downright "frightening" as he detailed some of the encounters during a July 9 police briefing.

"You have white people screaming at black officers, 'You have the biggest nose I've ever seen," said Jackson, a nine-year department vet. "You hear these things and you go, 'Are these people, are they going to say something to this person? No.'"

Jackson, who graduated from Portland State University with a history degree, said the situation has been "actually frightening" given his own educational background.

Jakhary Jackson officer Portland Police Department
© Portland Police DepartmentJakhary Jackson, an officer with the Portland Police Department
"A lot of times, someone of color - black, Hispanic, Asian - will come up to the fence, and directly want to talk to me: 'Hey, what do you think about George Floyd? What do you think about what happened with the police?'" Jackson said.

Then, "someone white" would walk up and start saying "eff the police" or "don't talk to him," Jackson recalled.

"It's been very eye-opening," Jackson said during the briefing, adding that he's witnessed more minorities among his counterparts than within the crowds of "violent" protesters.

Jackson said he's also been told by "privileged white" protesters to quit his job and that he's hurting his community more than helping it.

"And you don't even know what I've dealt with, what these white officers that you're screaming at ... you don't know them, you don't know anything about them," Jackson said. "There are racist people out in the world. Absolutely, there are bad cops out in the world. We don't associate with those people, they make us all look bad."

He continued: "I got to see folks that really do want change like the rest of us, that have been impacted by racism. And then I got to see those people get faded out by people who have no idea what racism is all about, that don't even know that the tactics they're using are the same tactics that were used against my people."

Portland police shared a portion of Jackson's remarks on its Twitter page Wednesday. The officer's entire account was posted by KGW on the station's YouTube page.