"President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has identified 29-year-old Portland, Oregon resident Chandler Patey as "the leader of Antifa," according to internal DHS documents leaked to journalist Kenneth Klippenstein. Klippenstein notes that Patey and other "Antifa protestors" identified in the federal documents demonstrate the shoddy reasoning the federal government will use to just to label any protestor as a domestic terrorist."
"The DHS decided that Patey leads Antifa, which Trump has designated as a "domestic terrorist organization," because Patey has been "seen in many videos advocating the principles of [anti-fascism]" and because he allows protestors to use his bathroom and medical supplies to rinse off tear gas inflicted by federal agents at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainment facility near his downtown Portland apartment."
"While Patey also provides medical equipment and gas mask filters that protestors might need after federal agents attack them for expressing their First Amendment rights, Fox News host Laura Ingraham and other right-wing media commentators have used these as a basis to claim that Patey is running an ominous-sounding "Antifa safehouse." In reality, Antifa is a decentralized political ideology with autonomous, local groups but no formal leaders."
Chandler Patey, a 29-year-old Portland resident, was designated by the Department of Homeland Security as the 'leader of Antifa' after being seen advocating anti-fascist principles and providing protesters with shelter access, medical supplies, and gas mask filters. Federal authorities cited his allowing protesters to use his bathroom and supplies to rinse tear gas near an ICE detention facility as evidence. Right-wing media characterized these actions as operating an 'Antifa safehouse.' Antifa is a decentralized ideology with autonomous local groups and no formal leaders. Senior DHS officials report pressure to legally implement presidential directives against Antifa despite limited evidence of organized, well-financed criminal activity.
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