Benjamin Jeffrey Smith 43 'went down the radical rabbit hole' and came up shooting. He killed one person and seriously injured five others last Saturday night at Portland's Normandale Park.
Portland shooter Benjamin Smith's roommate for the past 7 years Kristine Christenson told investigators he had become more and more radicalized in recent years.
"He talked about wanting to shoot people all the time, how much he hated Antifa and Black Lives Matter and ‘those damn commies," she said.
Ms. Christenson said that Mr. Smith wore a shirt that said
“Kyle Rittenhouse true patriot.” “Living with him has been getting progressively worse,” Ms. Christenson said of Mr. Smith. “I honestly have not felt very safe around him. His anger has gotten worse.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/us/benjamin-smith-portland-shooting.htmlBenjamin Jeffrey Smith had grown increasingly angry at demonstrations set in the Northeast Portland neighborhood; his brother told The Oregonian/OregonLive.
Christenson said
Smith often criticized the Black Lives Matter movement, the COVID-19 mask requirement, crime in the neighborhood and homeless people living near the park by their apartment.Smith was known to collect guns, several neighbors said.
Smith had spoken about his growing antipathy toward left-wing activists in Portland, including those who had previously marched in and around the Rose City Park neighborhood, said his brother Aurthur Killion, who lives in Indiana.
“He had no love for them,” Killion said.
“But he’s not some right-wing nutjob. He’s a master machinist.”Postings on the social media site Reddit under the username “Polybun,” which Smith used, according to his roommate, contains anti-Semitic comments and praise for Kyle Rittenhouse.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2022/02/portland-man-under-suspicion-in-mass-shooting-fixated-on-citys-protests-homeless-problem-neighbors-and-family-say.htmlWhere have we read these kinds of things before? Does Benjamin Smith resemble any one or several Getbig posters?
