DHS Agent: Portland Rioters ‘Mentally Ill,’ ‘Drug Abusers,’ ‘Catatonic With Hate’

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   DHS Agent: Portland Rioters ‘Mentally Ill,’ ‘Drug Abusers,’ ‘Catatonic With Hate’
By Debra Heine • July 27, 2020

The deranged antifa mob that has rioted in Portland, Oregon for 60 consecutive days is full of “mentally ill, frothing-at-the-mouth individuals” who seem “almost catatonic with hate,” according to a DHS agent who shared his impressions of the situation anonymously to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).

Last week, federal agents were deployed to Portland in a mission called Operation Diligent Valor to protect downtown’s Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse.

The DHS agent called the situation “surreal,” and hypothesized that the violent agitators have projected their hatred of the president onto the federal courthouse.

    You get large, nonviolent demonstrations where people march, they chant, they give speeches, then shortly after are replaced with a smaller crowd, though still large, who immediately start trying to break into and destroy the federal courthouse.

    They have transposed their hatred for the president and for law enforcement onto the physical structure of the federal courthouse, and the uniformed personnel whose job is to protect that courthouse.

    They throw homemade Molotov cocktails, try to set the walls on fire, try to cut and pry through the plywood covering the glass walls, all the while screaming vitriol until their voices are cracked and hoarse. When DHS personnel are visible, they throw frozen water bottles at them, canned goods, paint and gasoline.

    They try to shine high powered lasers into our eyes, which can cause permanent damage.

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https://amgreatness.com/2020/07/27/dhs-agent-portland-rioters-mentally-ill-drug-abusers-catatonic-with-hate/

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Its pretty clear that a neutron bomb on Portland on any given night recently would have a dramatically positive affect on the state of mental health nationwide.

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'Catatonic with Hate'
Rare impressions from an anonymous DHS agent on the riot lines in Portland
By Todd Bensman on July 27, 2020

Since the Trump administration deployed Department of Homeland Security agents to help the exhausted and overwhelmed Federal Protective Service save federal buildings from weeks of rioting in Portland and other cities, live video streaming and heavy news coverage from the anti-police rioter perspective have saturated the American public.

But amid the din of Operation Diligent Valor and protection operations in Portland, little is heard from the federal agents standing their ground against the nightly assaults against federal property – seen as symbols of the hated Trump administration – such as downtown Portland's Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse. Unusually, many of the agents sent for riot-control duty on the front line around the courthouse were drawn from DHS component agencies such as the U.S. Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

DHS so far has not allowed reporters to embed with the agents on their side of the Portland siege line to sample what the battle might be like for them. But one DHS employee who is there agreed to share impressions and experiences with CIS anonymously from the federal agent point of view. Following are excerpts, in no particular order (language warning):
Transposing hatred for the president

https://cis.org/Bensman/DHS-Agent-Riot-Portland