Black Marine vet holds US flag high amid chaotic Portland protest, gets followed home by Antifa
By: Teny Sahakian (Fox News)
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Retired Marine Corp. officer, Gabriel Johnson, was looking for unity when he carried an American flag into a Portland protest but instead he found nothing but anger and lawlessness. 'I fought for this country and this is not what I fought for.'
For more than 50 nights, Gabriel Johnson, 48, a retired Marine, has been kept awake by the sounds of rioting and explosions taking place outside his window in Portland, Ore. After two months of living in fear, at 3 a.m. Sunday he had had enough, "at that point I [had] counted 82 explosions and just thought, you know, somebody has to do something."
Living only a block away from the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in downtown Portland, which has become an epicenter of violence that has overtaken the city, Johnson marched into the chaos with his American flag in hand.
While he expected his actions would be divisive to some, the retired Marine was not prepared for the reaction he got.
"I was being called the N-word by Black people. People were chasing me around with baseball bats," Johnson told Fox News.
While the Marine Corps veteran experienced many eye-opening events that night, there was one thing he saw that shocked him the most.
"Antifa has infiltrated Black Lives Matter," Johnson said as he described a woman dressed in Black Lives Matter gear who showed him threatening footage of protesters following him back to his home, and letting him know they were keeping tabs on him. According to Johnson, this woman was also holding an Antifa pen and was communicating with others via walkie-talkie.
"These people have nothing to do with Black lives. Our Black community leaders need to stand up and lead because what's happening is they're letting a group of terrorists that don't represent me use me, and that's not right," said Johnson.
Another scene that left him in utter dismay was seeing a 65-year-old Black veteran attempt to stop the burning of Johnson's flag, only to be beaten by alleged Black Lives Matter protesters.
"He said, 'there's no way you're gonna burn this flag.' That was followed up by Black Lives Matter, Black men, running after this man, punching him in his face, grabbing the flag and throwing it over the fence," said Johnson as he emotionally recalled the horrific incident.
The lifelong Portland resident blames the destruction of his city on the inaction of local leadership.
"The lack of police response, city response, response from our mayor has just given free rein to holy hell to take place at that 11 o'clock hour to 3 in the morning."
As for the federal officers who have been sent by the Trump administration into Portland over the past week to end the violence, Johnson doesn't oppose the extra assistance.
"In absence of the local police what do we expect?" he said. "If we as a city aren't going to police ourselves, then we should expect someone to come in and police for us."
"I look at everything from a patriot's point of view. I've spent a lot of time fighting for our country. And so my belief in and my patriotism for this country is unmeasured … I fought for this country and this is not what I fought for," said Johnson.
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Semper Fi Marine!
A brave man.
The real sad part of this is that his troubles have just begun. He will likely be doxxed and his information shared among the antifa terrorists, allowing him and his family to be harassed.
They don't win by debate or through legal actions, they win by trying to destroy the lives of anyone who stands up to them, sapping the will to resist.
After which, the next call to the police will be to come to his house and pick up the Antifa bodies. Marines don't play around when they are dealing with Marxist assholes and they are not taught to disable enemies and bring them back alive. He will, of course, have to wait until they attack him in such a way that he is allowed, by law, to respond appropriately.
If they really want peace (as in "NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE), keep clearly in mind that there is no one as peaceful as a dead enemy.
ome to his house and pick up the Antifa bodies.
Oh, I don't the are brave enough for that. He's not elderly, in a wheelchair or otherwise incapacitated. They'll call his employer, try and get him fired. Whatever business he works for or owns will be bombarded with bad reviews on Yelp and sites like that. Call the cops and say there is a domestic situation at his house. Harassment by keyboard.
Or, if he or his wife does own a business they'll target it for looting and arson during one of their "peaceful protests," so many here support. This happened last night at a Seattle riot, where a business owned by the wife of a cop was set on fire and looted.
It's show how far criminal behavior has been normalized that a mob of 150 people burning and looting is barely a blip on our national conscious. Just "peaceful protesters".
" kept awake by the sounds of rioting and explosions taking place outside his window in Portland, Ore."
Residents have a right to peace and quite, if somebody was having a party and playing loud music at night they would be made to stop even if they were just having fun but rioting, destroying things and protesting have somehow become more important than citizen's right to get a good nights sleep,
dressed in Black Lives Matter T-shirts and said that they were black lives matter protesters
I can wear an Enzo Ferrari tee shirt but it does not mean I am a race driver.
So....who are you saying they are?
More white supremacists, I'm sure.
There is no Antifa according the Democrats, left, and lame stream media. Therefor they don't exist. Despite all evidence to the contrary.
True, but if you were a Porsche fan and showed up at a gathering of Ferrari enthusiast with a Ferrari tee shirt there's probably a better than average chance that you're there to agitate not support. Don't you think?
For a change I'm not here to rain on your parade but to offer in interesting tid-bit of information.
By any chance did Johnson mention to the protesters that he was a Marine?
If so, it might not be that he brought a flag or that he advocated non violent protest that got the attention of some of the protesters.
It might be from past experience a year ago with one specific Portland Marine .
First of all, who are those comments addressed to?
Second of all, with what the Portland mob has done to so many innocent human beings, I doubt they remember specific individuals. Of course you really didn't mean that literally, did you?The idea that somebody would identify himself as a Marine is not really something credible, right? It was just a means to introduce your story from a year ago. Funny how much people dislike the very kind of emotional story they have utilized so many times.