Terrorist and the victim.
Posted on 11/02/2019 10:58:09 AM PDT by TigerClaws
A 24-year-old man who hit another man over the head with a baton in June during dueling downtown Portland demonstrations was sentenced Friday to nearly six years in prison.
Gage Halupowski pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in connection with the June 29 attack on Adam Kelly outside The Nines Hotel along Southwest Morrison Street. Halupowski was identified as one of several masked, black-clothed demonstrators seen on video hitting and pepper-spraying Kelly after he appeared to come to the aid of another man who’d been attacked during the protests, authorities said.
Kelly, a right-wing protestor at the demonstrations, wrote on Facebook at the time that the blows to his head led to him suffering a concussion and needing 25 staples to close the wounds.
Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Melissa Marrero said Halupowski hitting Kelly in the back of the head with an expandable baton was “completely unexplainable, completely avoidable and didn’t need to happen.”
She said Kelly and Halupowski both were lucky that Kelly survived his injuries.
Defense attorney Edward Kroll said Halupowski made “a really terrible decision” and that Kelly didn’t deserve what happened to him, but the attorney believed the agreed-upon 70-month prison sentence was “one of the harshest sentences I’ve seen for someone with no criminal background and young age.”
Kroll cited the Measure 11 charges Halupowski faced and the attack being caught on video as leaving the 24-year-old with few options other than taking the plea deal. Kroll also noted that Halupowski hit Kelly once, but it had been determined that at least two other people hit him in the head with batons.
Marrero disagreed with Kroll’s assertions, saying she felt the charges and sentence were appropriate based on the severity of Kelly’s injuries and Halupowski’s strike. She said first-degree assault, which carried a potential 90-month sentence, and riot charges were initially considered in the case.
The prosecutor also said another person has been indicted and more people are under investigation in the same attack and other incidents stemming from the June demonstrations.
“My office has individuals charged on both sides of the political spectrum,” Marrero said. “We are not picking sides based on political affiliation, political views or anything like that.”
Halupowski didn’t give any statements while in court Friday. Kelly sat in the gallery behind him. His bald head bore several scars. He declined to comment after the court hearing.
One of the few things I like about the French is their prison system: Behave yourself for one day, and that time counts as time served. None of this "time off for good behavior" crap.
Hitting an old guy in the head with a baton could easily result in death. He should have gotten 25 to life. This was a terrorist act. He should be serving his time at Gitmo.
He should have gotten longer.
But keep in mind, even if he is out in 2 years, that's very possibly 2 years of being someone's bitch. These people he will be in with are a lot tougher than some coward soy boy with a mask and baton. After he gets out, when he thinks about wearing a mask and beating on someone his rectum will hurt with the memory of what he got for doing it the first time.
Don't discount the possibility he could get AIDS during his vacation in the joint. The recipients of anal sex are much more likely to get it than the givers.
Oh we're playing the 'don't name the group and don't name the political leanings' game.
“Defense attorney Edward Kroll said Halupowski made “a really terrible decision” and that Kelly didn’t deserve what happened to him, but the attorney believed the agreed-upon 70-month prison sentence was “one of the harshest sentences I’ve seen for someone with no criminal background and young age.””
It’s called being made an example to deter others from being stupid.
Terrorist and the victim.
Six years is no where close to enough. That leftist will be out in less than a year and will soon be attacking patriots again.
The local and state governments are your enemy, folks.
JoMa
AMAZING HOW THEY ARE QUICK TO PUNISH RIGHT WING PROTESTERS.
JUST AMAZING
The “Proud Boy” guys in New York waited for Antifa thugs to throw the first punch. Didn’t matter. They still got sentenced to 3 years in jail.
He won't be so tough after he drops the soap.
I thought it was something like that.
It makes me sick to my stomach and my heart.
Thank You for Posting the Video in slow motion.
Those demonratcommieantifascumbags need to have their empty heads split open.
I say the Charges should have been Attempted Murder.
Those demonratcommieantifascumbags with the head buckets, ski goggles, Balaclavas (face mask/head covers, Not Baklava The Pastry), and Black long sleeve shirts/pants need to be Arrested for Public concealment with Intent to deceive. But since that will never happen. The Right needs to start carrying a few different kinds of defensive items like: a 5 lb sledgehammer (for general cage rattling. Nothing says I Love You like ringing their Bell via the head bucket), a Rock Hammer (to ventilate that
Stupid head bucket) some Quick Setting Epoxy in the mixing tubes (for gluing their helmets on)
Oregon LIve is owned by some big lefty I forget who
The comments section is roiled they neglected to mention Antifa
I have libertarian gun owning pot growing friends in Oregon
They claim Portland government and culture and even restaurants and bars community is largely supportive of ANTIFA
BIZARRO
they hate Portland...if they can’t get it in Medford they go to Eugene if not there they order it or drive to Sacramento for an overnighter
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