In one harrowing encounter, Antifa protesters struck an elderly Trump supporter with signs labeled “No Hate.” Al Letson, the host of an investigative radio program and podcast Reveal, who was also there to record the actions of the far right, leapt to the Trump supporter’s defense, shielding him with his body and pleading with Antifa protesters to stop beating the man. They complied and allowed the man to get to his feet and leave the area.

“I just put my body down on top of his, in the hopes that they would not hit me,” Letson would later tell NPR. The man who was beaten, Keith Campbell, told reporters that Letson “saved my life.”