Moawad said she hopes Swinney returns to his family in Texas when he is free to do so, and that he finds a more constructive way to participate in protests if they continue.The caller related that her brother was reportedly becoming aggressive with his mother and was attempting to break into her house. She said Swinney chose to become a bad actor. In sentencing Swinney, Moawad said that while there may have been bad actors on both sides during the clashes in question, Swinney was provoking violence. “The videos showing the incidents do not portray a person who is scared for himself or for those around him, but for a person who really, pretty calmly and dispassionately used or threatened force, often with dangerous or deadly weapons.” “The evidence that was presented at this trial.all continue to demonstrate a person who does not have remorse for what happened,” Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Heidi Moawad said before sentencing Swinney. Prosecutors said Swinney is “a catalyst and a lightning rod for political violence” and that his desire to organize violent, hate-filled militia groups, create riots and engage in conflict represents an extreme danger to the community. “That service is intimately connected with Alan Swinney falling into what he fell into,” attorney Joseph Westover said. Swinney’s defense attorney pointed to his time in the military, including a deployment to Kuwait during the Gulf War, as evidence of the hardships Swinney has experienced. “The world’s a little bit better and safer place without him in it. I don’t believe you meant to kill the guy,” Swinney wrote. In closing, Swinney told Chauvin “our country has too many George Floyds in it.” 10, 2021, he was sentenced to 10 years prison for his role in Portland-area protests. Swinney carried a paintball gun and a handgun at the Gresham rally. 26, 2020, four days after pulling a gun on demonstrators in Portland. Swinney told Chauvin that they are connected because the protests sparked by Floyd’s murder are what drew Swinney from Texas to Portland to “deal with Antifa and Burn Loot Murder Protesters,” he said, using a derogatory alternative for Black Lives Matter.Īlan Swinney, a demonstrator who has engaged in violence, appeared at a Gresham rally Aug. “Another thing that may end up working in your favor is that this country is headed toward civil war,” Swinney wrote. In the letter, Swinney expressed sympathy for Chauvin after his conviction, telling him to keep his head up because he could win on appeal or be freed through other means. To support their sentencing recommendation, prosecutors included a handwritten letter Swinney tried to send to Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who murdered George Floyd, sparking months of nationwide racial justice protests. Many in the crowd were carrying firearms, but at one point Swinney pulled a revolver and pointed it at the crowd of counterprotesters. 22, 2020, who fired paintball guns and sprayed mace at anti-fascist counterprotesters during a violent brawl in downtown Portland. Swinney was among dozens of far-right demonstrators Aug. In a recorded jail phone call, Swinney said he hadn’t intended to shoot Britton but expressed no remorse. 15, 2020, protest downtown, causing a lasting eye injury. Swinney shot Jason Britton in the eye with a paintball gun during an Aug. Proud Boy Alan Swinney fires paintballs at anti-fascist counterprotesters during pro-Trump and pro-police demonstrations in front of the Multnomah County Justice Center in summer 2020. “As evidenced by the defendant’s escalating violence, letters, social media statements and testimony, the defendant has no remorse for his actions, no desire to change and every intention of engaging in future acts of violence,” Deputy District Attorney Nathan Vasquez wrote in a sentencing memo filed Thursday.
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