Stop calling them federal agents. Until proven otherwise, call them "mercenaries".

[lostnfound]

Or “shock troops” or gestapo, if you like. But some of us have a hunch that they are getting paid through a mercenery company like Erik Prince’s company, so until proven otherwise (via a specific command structure), I think “mercenaries” is an apt description.

This guy was a federal agent.

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So were these guys.


And these guys.

[Miigwech]

1. BTW, how much is all of this costing the taxpayer and where is the money

coming from? Congress has oversight and should cut the funds immediately.

[MontanaMama]

9. This.

Been screaming thus fair a week. Cut the funding! WTAF?

[Miigwech]

11. I'm with you!

[oasis]

2. Mercenaries who have dreams of becoming full-fledged storm troopers. nt

[Magoo48]

3. Yes, yes, and yes.

[Wednesdays]

4. ...from Russia. nt

[notinkansas]

5. Mercenaries it is.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. Jack-booted THUGS.....

On orders from Trump and Barr to suppress the 1st Amendment.

Protests are only heating up against them.

[malaise]

7. THUGs

ReTHUGs

[FakeNoose]

8. "Brown shirts" -- "paid thugs" -- "street gangs"

People with no badges, no ID, and no legal authority to arrest citizens who are asserting their rights to freedom of speech and assembly.

[HotTeaBag]

10. I'll stick to 'Federal Agents' until 'some people's' hunches prove to be true.

Not really into the hunch thing - wishful thinking that's too close to CT land.

[lostnfound]

12. What is their chain of command? Do they report to a corporate boss then to Bill Barr? Cucinelli?

We literally have no more proof of them being “Federal Agents” as we have of them being “mercenaries”. They certainly aren’t acting like “Federal Agents”. Seems like an insult to the FBI and DEA to call them “Federal Agents”. There’s no transparency, no oversight.

On the DHS website, they are described as “federal law enforcement officers” — they don’t even have a specific institution.

The situation in Portland for the past 55 straight days, continues with violent anarchists rioting on the streets of Portland as federal law enforcement officers work diligently and honorably to enforce federal law; they do so by defending federal property and the lives of their fellow officers.

They also say “ One injury to a DHS officer has been reported; and no injuries to protestors or rioters have been reported” —for the night of the 23rd / morning of 24th. For the record.

[HotTeaBag]

13. OK, then call them 'Federal Law Enforcement Officers'.

That's what DHS is calling them.

I just don't understand the need to create a scenario where dark forces are at hand when the simple explanation is that these guys (and possibly gals) are existing law enforcement officers pulled from their day jobs to do this - none of them trained to do what they're doing, but that's a different issue.

My guess is that some of them are ICE and some are Border Patrol, and some are possibly even correction officers - none of which play particularly nice as you seem to believe the FBI and DEA do.

[lostnfound]

14. 100% of the time, if there's money to be scammed, the trump mob will scam it