Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is facing down an “army of Antifa” protestors in “war-ravaged” Portland, starting off by disapproving of a person in a chicken suit.
In a video posted Tuesday by MAGA influencer Benny Johnson, Noem, 53, stands atop Portland, Oregon’s ICE facility and surveys a scene of a few protestors scattered about the street. In the crowd is a person dressed like a chicken.
“DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stares down army of Antifa and a guy in a chicken suit from the rooftop of the ICE facility here in Portland!” gushed Johnson in his post.
“Noem isn’t chicken,” he added with an emoji of a chicken.
In the video, Johnson asks if Noem has a message for “the man in the chicken suit,” to which she says, “Man in the chicken outfit? I just see him now. Goodness sakes. You can do better,” before calling the protesters “uneducated and ill-informed.”
Animal costumes have been a staple of the Portland protests. A person in a chicken suit was pictured protesting at night on October 3rd. ICE has also pepper-sprayed a person in a frog costume.
Elsewhere in Portland, a group of senior citizens are going viral for protesting by singing “This Land Is Your Land” on ukuleles.
Despite Johnson’s hyperbolic description of the scene in Portland, viewers weren’t impressed by Noem’s bravery in the face of a couple dozen of the city’s residents.
“LOL THERE’S LIKE EIGHT F---ING PEOPLE THERE!!!” tweeted Democratic strategist Adam Parkhomenko.
“Even this pure Goebbels-style propaganda gives us enough information to know that Portland is not a war-zone,” said attorney Ben Yelin.
Indeed, the video doesn’t jive with conservative characterizations of Portland as a “third world hellhole” that requires assistance from the National Guard to quell a violent insurrection. However, someone in Johnson’s video can be heard insisting that Tuesday’s scene is “nothing” compared to what it’s like at night.
Some arrests have been made during the Portland protests, the most notable being of conservative self-styled citizen Nick Sortor, who was detained for fighting with two protestors and released after a few hours.
Portland residents insist that ICE is the one causing chaos amidst the protests. Portland City Attorney Robert Taylor wrote to the U.S. Department of Justice criticizing the “unconstitutional uses of force in violation of the Fourth Amendment against otherwise peaceful demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights.”
“Does the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice care about the Constitution anymore?” he asked.
