A prominent anarchist blog is calling for a “disruptive” gathering at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent’s home in Portland, Oregon, on Friday night.
Masked protesters should arrive at the property at 6 p.m. and “TAKE THE FIGHT” to ICE, whether the gathering is “peaceful” or not, according to the Tuesday post from “Rose City Counter-Info,” which claims to identify the agent and a home address. The anonymous pro-Antifa website drew rebuke from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in July and October for efforts to “dox” ICE agents and telling Portlanders to illegally shine lasers at federal aircraft. The site’s “disgusting doxxing of our officers” in the Tuesday post could lead to criminal charges, the DHS told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“It’s time to take the battle to the actual people responsible for kidnapping, disappearing, and shooting our neighbors,” reads the post. “Behind the masks, ICE agents have names and addresses, and some of them feel comfortable enough to live in the same city they terrorize on a daily basis.”
The blog also urges comrades to leave phones and cameras at home and refrain from filming each other to avoid creating evidence for police investigations.
“This would constitute a felony. The disgusting doxxing of our officers put their lives and their families in serious danger,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told the DCNF. “Our law enforcement officers are on the frontlines arresting terrorists, gang members, murderers, pedophiles, and rapists. Now, thanks to the malicious rhetoric of sanctuary politicians, they are under constant threat from violent agitators.”
The DHS has reported drastic increases in assaults and death threats against ICE agents under President Donald Trump, McLaughlin noted.
“We will not back down,” McLaughlin said. “Anyone who doxxes our officers will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
In a paragraph addressing whether the demonstration will be peaceful, the blog says it should be “loud, disruptive, and joyous” and that “we will not be spending our energy trying to control the way others protest.”
“Instead, we will work together to keep each other safe from the real violent agitators: the Portland Police and DHS,” Rose City Counter-Info said.
Rose City Counter-Info — and other anonymous leftist sites that openly encourage crime — publish their content via NoBlogs, a web service from an Italy-based group that helps activists hide identifying data, the DCNF previously reported. Act for Freedom Now, another site hosted on NoBlogs, also shared Rose City Counter-Info’s Tuesday post.
“We’ve seen what we’re capable of when we can come together,” Rose City Counter-Info said before describing what it considers successful anti-deportation riots in Oregon, California and Minnesota since President Donald Trump took office. “In July, Portland showed up and marched on the ICE facility and pushed the feds back,” reads the post. “In Los Angeles, crowds have come together to disrupt ICE and [Customs and Border Protection] and forced them to flee. In Minneapolis, people have sought out the hotels where out of town ICE agents are staying and brought the pressure and noise right into the lobbies.”
“We will hold it down until the message is sent,” the blog says about Friday night’s planned gathering.
The FBI’s Portland office did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
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