Democrat Katie Porter has shredded Irvine police after arresting a man she lives with for assaulting a protester

California Democrat Katie Porter has reportedly blasted the Irvine Police Department after officers arrested a man she lives with for his alleged involvement in a brawl that broke out at her town hall event last year.

Porter supporters and hecklers were involved in a physical altercation at their “Policy in the Park” event in Irvine, California that made headlines in July 2021. The police had arrested a Porter supporter, Julian Willis of La Jolla, after allegedly hitting one of the protesters and giving him a bloody nose.

But Fox News unveiled Monday that 51-year-old Willis lives with Porter, according to arrest and property records, and received a subpoena for the assault.

The outlet also released screenshots of a text message conversation between Porter and Irvine Mayor Farrah Khan, in which the congresswoman trashed the police.

“Your police department is a disgrace,” Porter wrote to the mayor.

“I will never trust them again,” she wrote to Khan, who offered to discuss the incident over the phone.

A spokesman for Porter told Fox News lawmakers were “upset that a proposed family-friendly city hall was hijacked by extremists who made voters feel unsafe, including using hateful slurs in front of children.”

“She was disappointed that although our staff alerted police days before the event that the extremists openly stated their intention to disrupt City Hall, on the day of the incident officers were hundreds of meters away and did not immediately intervene when fighting broke out broke out. ‘ said Porter spokesman Jordan Wong.

“Since then, Rep. Porter and our office have worked productively with the Irvine Police Department, including the congressman who hosted the new police chief in their office for a constructive and cooperative meeting,” he added.

The heckling at City Hall in July 2021 was by Nick Taurus, ret self described “American nationalist and Roman Catholic,” who said he was running against Porter in the upcoming midterm elections. He had urged his supporters to “confront Katie Porter” at their event, and the protesters who showed up shouted “Carpetbagger Katie!” and “Corrupt Katie Porter” as she spoke to the crowd.

According to the Los Angeles Times, some of Porter’s supporters tried to shout down the protesters before a scuffle ensued. Irvine police officers intervened to stop the fight and Willis was arrested.

Porter, a former law professor, was first elected to the US House of Representatives in 2018 and became the first Democrat to represent traditionally Republican Orange County in Congress, winning re-election in 2020. Her district was redrawn after the 2020 census and now includes west Orange County and east Los Angeles, giving Democrats a voting advantage for the seat in November’s election.

She has come under fire in recent weeks afterward Fox News reported that she was making thousands of dollars in royalties from law school textbooks that her students had to buy for courses she taught. In 2017, Porter was paid $286,674 to teach two courses at the University of California Transparent California.