A Vancouver member of the far-right Proud Boys group was sentenced Friday to nearly eight years in prison for charges in connection with an August 2021 rally in Portland that ended in violence. <\/p>\n
In March, a Multnomah County Circuit Court judge found Tusitala Tiny Toese guilty of two counts each of second-degree assault, third-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon, first-degree criminal mischief and riot. <\/p>\n
Toese was extradited from Clark County in March 2022 to face those charges. <\/p>\n
Toese was a leader of the Aug. 22, 2021, Proud Boys event in east Portland that culminated in a furious exchange of pepper spray, projectiles and paint balls between the far-right group and anti-fascists near an abandoned Kmart, according to the Multnomah County District Attorneys Office. <\/p>\n
The district attorneys office said Toese gave commands to his group to chase after fleeing counterprotesters and incited his group to shoot paintballs at them and assault them. <\/p>\n
Toese used a baseball bat to break out the windows of a mans car carrying water that Toese claimed belonged to antifa. <\/p>\n
Later, one of Toeses group members beat the man as he hid in his car, court records state. <\/p>\n
The prosecutor told the judge Toese has a history of violence and said, Toese was filled with hatred toward antifa and played upon the passions of the Proud Boys to incite them to violence, the news release states. <\/p>\n
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