Posted on 09/27/2017 9:05:28 AM PDT by doug from upland
A 23-year-old man who threw burning flares into a Portland police cruiser and the downtown Target store during May 1 protests that overran downtown Portland admitted guilt Monday and will be sentenced to five years in prison.
A local TV station aired live footage of Damion Zachary Feller hurling a flare through a shattered picture window at Target, prompting employees to run with fire extinguishers to put out a burning section of carpet. TV and cellphone cameras also caught Feller throwing a flare through the shattered window of a battered police SUV parked across the street from Target, at Southwest 10th Avenue and Morrison.
Other people clad all in black or wearing masks can be seen on the videos kicking or whacking windows of the police car seconds before Feller swoops in with the flares.
Police identified Feller as among a group of about 20 anarchists who descended on downtown as peaceful May Day protesters spoke about a variety of social issues. Officers arrested 25 people that day for vandalizing property, setting fires, throwing rocks and other violence.
Feller wasn’t arrested until two days later after officers who recognized his image from the videos spotted him on the streets of downtown.
Detectives showed him a photograph of the person who threw one of the flares and he replied: “I saw that online, and I knew I was (expletive),” according to a probable cause affidavit.
Feller admitted he was guilty and told detectives that he became part of the “mob mentality,” according to the affidavit.
On Monday, Feller offered no statements in Multnomah County Circuit Court. He wore a blue jail uniform as he stood beside his public defender, DeAnna Horne.
Feller pleaded guilty to first-degree arson, second-degree arson, riot and first-degree criminal mischief. He is scheduled to be sentenced to five years in prison during an October hearing.
He also was charged in federal court for his crimes. But as part of his plea deal, he won't be sentenced to any additional prison time.
Feller will be eligible for release from prison after four years, if he gets time off for good behavior.
Shortly after his arrest, Feller told authorities that he doesn’t talk to his family, which includes his grandmother in Longview and his parents in Colorado. He said he’d been homeless for the past year, been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and smoked marijuana daily.
He said he’s unemployed, although he occasionally picks up odd jobs through the temporary job service Labor Ready.
Feller had no history of criminal convictions, although court records show he previously had been arrested five times in Oregon, Colorado and Texas on allegations of committing nonviolent crimes or failing to appear in court. He still faces pending charges of theft and criminal trespass in Umatilla County.
So I guess even some leftists have their limits.
Good.
Damion Zachary is one stupid Feller
And I was already thinking "Smoke on the Water" --
"But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground".
Nice. Perhaps that will find its way to a DFU POLIMERICK.
“I saw that online, and I knew I was (expletive),”
He looks wimpy enough for inmate Big Bubba.
“Mob mentality” is thinking you can blame your own evil acts on everyone else. Nice try, but not an excuse.
So they are anarchists when they descend on peaceful May Day protesters — but somehow miraculously transform into “antifa” when they descend on peaceful conservative protesters.
“Smoke on the Water” —
Zappa concert.
It certainly isn't an excuse, but it is the reason.
Right now we have a nation-wide hysteria, with millions upon millions caught up with it.
I even know family members who are taking positions and saying things they would never say if they were in their right minds.
One well established communist front group is very like another.
Damion Zachary is one stupid Feller
He tossed in a torch to make a cop car blaze yeller,
But now on to prison to be bubba’s dear feller,
Where he’ll scream and he’ll cry and he’ll holler and yeller.
A flare job by Damion Feller
He’d find that the act’s a non-seller
He thinks life is unkind
Well, I think he will find
That prison life really is heller
Will work on graphics and post on Twitter
cool!
Be sure and tell Bubba that you really love big strong black men...
Says he’s Bi-polar....bhaaaa!bhaaaa!bhaaaa!bhaaaa!bhaaaa!
and these are the white dumb shits who will join with the black dumb shits to attack good people..
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