Portland Man Says He Was Attacked By Man Linked To Far-Right Senate Candidate
Source: The Guardian
A man from Portland, Oregon says he was attacked by a member of the far-right Proud Boys group who has links to a Republican Senate candidate in Washington state. Tim Ledwith, 34, said he was punched by Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, 22, who is aligned with the Proud Boys, a “western chauvinist” group founded by Gavin McInnes, a co-founder of the Vice Media empire.
Toese is also a prominent member of Vancouver, Washington-based Patriot Prayer, a group that has staged rallies that have often turned violent in the Pacific north-west over the past year. Patriot Prayer is led by Joey Gibson, a Republican candidate in the US Senate primary in Washington.
Ledwith said the attack happened in a busy shopping area in Portland at around 2.30pm on Friday 8 June. Toese and two other men had been yelling at strangers from a truck, he said. “They were yelling: ‘Support Trump, build the wall,’” Ledwith said.
Ledwith responded with a profanity, he said, and the men stopped their vehicle. Ledwith said Toese and another man, Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer supporter Donovan Flippo, got out.
“They were calling me a faggot and slinging epithets at me,” Ledwith said. “Tiny walked over calmly and … punched me in the face. I’m like, half his size. I was not a threat to them. I’m 34 years old, not 17. This is not a thing that happens to me day-to-day.” Ledwith said the punch knocked him to the ground and opened a gash in his lip. He was treated at hospital, he said, receiving several stitches...More...
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/16/portland-proud-boys-alleged-attack-man-patriot-prayer-joey-gibson
http://www.newsweek.com/far-right-donald-trump-portland-oregon-proud-boys-tiny-toese-980259
Tusitala 'Tiny' Toese (front) addresses far-right Patriot Prayer supporters after fighting broke out between antifascist counter-protesters on June 03, 2018 in Portland, Oregon. Toese is being accused of punching a man in Portland during a protest, the victim claims.
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Yeah, sure. Of which particular country, because it sure isn't the one we're in at the moment?
The booger eating, mouth breathing morons have united under the auspices of Donald Trump. He's given them false hope that they, too, can be wealthy and powerful, just like him.
It's all lies, of course, but these people love to be lied to, as long as the lies coincide with what they want to believe.
I long for the days when these people will once again be marginalized, but I don't know if the toothpaste can be put back into the tube. There are a brazillion rocks in the country without an idiot beneath them at the moment. I'd certainly like to help these rocks get their booger-eating, mouth breathing morons back to them.
