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Gabriel Reed is being investigated after posts in which he said protesters might need to “slide ICE,” "slide" being slang for confronting or attacking.
The FBI searched the apartment of a 36-year-old Eugene content creator and seized his phone and computers, in an investigation spurred by multiple TikToks calling on protesters to “slide ICE” if needed.
Gabriel Reed is a 36-year-old GrubHub delivery driver, former pastor and content creator, mainly through his TikTok account @gabethegreat18, where he has just shy of 21,000 followers.
In multiple videos, including one posted Jan. 7 — the same day Renee Good was shot to death by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis — Reed has talked about how protesters might need to “slide ICE” in resistance. (“Slide” is slang for confronting or attacking an enemy.)
The search warrant, provided in part by Reed, said it was looking for items that contained evidence and tools used in a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 373, the federal code that outlines the offense of “solicitation to commit a crime of violence.”
The Oregonian first reported the FBI search on March 13. In a phone interview with Lookout Eugene-Springfield on March 14, Reed said he did not intend to incite a riot or organized violence against immigration enforcement agents, but rather to call for self-defense against federal agents abusing their power.
“We don’t need to actively go look for these people,” he said. “But if they come into our neighborhoods, we need to be ready to defend ourselves, because they will kill you.”
Though Reed said he was searched last week by FBI agents, his content had reached the top levels of the Trump administration before.
Last October, one of Reed’s videos discussing the need to “slide ICE” was posted by then-Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin on X, who added: “Threaten violence against law enforcement like this guy? Expect to see @DHSgov & @FBI at your door.”
The FBI’s Portland Field Office declined to comment in an email.
Reed’s account of the FBI search
Reed said he was pulled over at noon Tuesday, March 10, by what looked like a police car or highway patrol vehicle, followed by multiple unmarked black cars. He had just picked his daughter up from preschool and dropped her with her mother, who works in Springfield, and he was pulled over near Thurston.
When he was stopped, an officer on the driver’s side asked to see his license and registration, while another officer on the passenger side asked him to roll his window down.
According to Reed, he went to his phone to explain that he was renting the car from Turo to do GrubHub deliveries. As he pulled out his phone, he said, one of the officers reached into the car, grabbed him and told him to stop resisting. He said the other officer then opened the door to grab him as well. Reed said he stopped moving, told them he wasn’t resisting, and would comply.
When he got out of the car, he saw the other cars behind the patrol vehicle and was introduced to two FBI agents who showed him the search warrant for his car, residence and devices.
The search of his Jefferson Westside Neighborhood apartment took around two hours, he said, and ended with the agents taking his phone, some legal documents, notes, two computers, multiple hard drives and more assorted documents.
Reed is also the founder of what he calls the “Pro Human Movement,” which he evangelizes about from his TikTok account based around the beliefs laid out in his “The Overman’s Manifesto,” an extended philosophical text that he said the FBI also took in the search.
Similar cases
The search comes in the weeks after a man in New York was charged and another man in Texas was indicted on federal charges over online comments. In the New York case, Jeffrey Scott Hamm was charged with making threats to the president and federal agents in unspecified YouTube comments.
In the Texas case, Francisco Jesus Mena was indicted for 10 counts of threatening a federal official for posts including “ICE COMES TO MY HOUSE, I WILL RESPOND WITH A GUNFIGHT” and “We out here in California KILLING ICE AGENTS…. DON’T TRAVEL TO THE SOUTH. YOU WITH BLUE EYES AND WHITE SKIN WILL GET CHOPPED.”
His attorney argued for dismissal because no specific law enforcement officers had been threatened. The judge denied that motion, citing upheld convictions in cases in other jurisdictions involving generalized threats to unnamed people.
Reed said a potential arrest is part of what resisting fascism looks like.
“This is just a part of what happens with corrupt governments,” he said. “If it means I do 20 years, it means I do 20 years. If it means I lose my life, it means I lose my life.”
Reed on saying ‘slide ICE’
Reed said he started saying “slide ICE” on TikTok after seeing what he described as a tyrannical government misusing its power.
“When I started saying ‘slide ICE,’ it was dealing with the reality of the moment,” he said. “The government will murder us and call us domestic terrorists. The domestic terrorists will murder you and call you the domestic terrorist.”
Reed said he does not own a gun, is an “anti-gun guy” and stays away from anti-ICE protests for fear of escalation by federal officers, whom he called “a gang of criminals” who do not follow the rule of law.
Reed, who said he is also facing an impending eviction and does not have money for a lawyer, has a GoFundMe to pay for any resulting legal fees from the investigation. While he said he would want to refine his speech in future TikToks, he doesn’t think he has done anything wrong.
“If they want me to change my rhetoric or change my tone, just stop killing us in the street,” he said. “Stop breaking the law. Go after the bad guys. Arrest the pedophiles. It’s that simple.”
