A Portland man made history over the weekend when he became the first person in the state of Oregon charged with violating the state’s new hate crime law, which went into effect on July 15.
58-year-old Robert Oden was arrested Saturday after allegedly assaulting a group of gay Latino men leaving CC Slaughters, a popular gay nightclub in Portland.
According to court documents, the three men exited the nightclub at around 2 a.m. As they were strolling down the sidewalk, they passed by Oden.
The men paid no mind to him until, unprovoked, he started shouting antigay slurs at them then told them to “go back to your country” before hitting all three in their faces, resulting in one man suffering a “swollen and bloody lip.”
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Witnesses called police and Oden was arrested. During his arrest, he continued shouting racist and homophobic slurs as he threatened more assaults.
Last month, lawmakers in the Beaver State passed Senate Bill 577, which makes it a felony to cause physical injury to another person because of their perceived race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or national origin.
Prior to the new law being passed, in order for a person to be charged with a felony, two or more people needed to commit the offense.
Oden has been charged with one count of bias crime in the first degree, felony assault in the fourth degree, two counts of harassment and two counts of bias crime in the second degree.
Rex Huskey
maybe walking would be better than “strolling”… got to give it mr. green
Cam
Thanks for making it obvious that the job of the anti-LGBTQ troll account is always to either defend bigots or to try to change the topic off of the actual story…
Which in this case is that a bigot attacked people.
Kanaka4127
Wtf is wrong with strolling? I don’t care if it said prancing. Its about bashing. And who the F is mr. green?
CurtisIsTheOne
Leave it to “King Dog”, ie Rex Huskey (and that’s husky with an “e” to you) to piss on a fire hydrant and tell you “It sure do feel like it’s raining”.
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Nuttypea
if strolling is so gay, why do so many straight couples own strollers?
Kangol2
Read!
CenterRight
Lock up all these mentally ill crazies in a psyche ward or jail. They are nothing but a danger and a burden to our society.
Roy Moss
Locking up all the mentally ill crazies would mean locking up all homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, racist people which would encompass all conservatives wouldn’t it? I’m all for it but imagine someone whose avatar is CenterRight may have an issue with that, no?
Cam
You may want to tell your Republican buddies. Mental health services were cut under Reagan and Bush and Republicans continue to fight against any restoration.
IWantAFullBeard
Three guys couldn’t take on one old man? I would have pulled an A$AP Rocky on him.
Kangol2
What if he’d a gun? Or a knife? Not even an A$AP Rocky move would have worked then, and don’t forget, A$AP was still arrested despite video showing those kids had harassed him, AND he was locked up and found guilty….
IWantAFullBeard
Kangol- That’s true. I guess if someone is whaling on me I wouldn’t just accept it because of fear of a gun.
I heard a story once about a 85 year old guy in Miami who was mugged. The assailant said “freeze!” and the guy responds “I’m not cold.” The person shoots him and the old man still gets up, knocks the gun away, and proceeds to beat the guy so badly with his cane that the assailant is taken to the hospital. It could be total BS but I still love the story for inspiration purposes.
Juanjo
I love how you pull a “blame the victim”, pound your own chest in imitation of a bonobo [your father??], and then post a made-up story about an old man fighting back.
Brian
So nobody should ever try to defend themselves from being beaten because their assailant might have a weapon? Yeah, that’s just dumb.
Kangol2
Make an example of this racist, homophobic snowflake, Oregon, and throw his ass under the prison!
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Hopefully he’ll do some “hard” time, but then again that’s actually what he really wishing for….
Karrnal
Isn’t “Slaughter” an awful name for a gay bar?
Man About Town
Yes; at least delete the letter “S”
Metro135
This guy looks like an extra from that TV show Hillbilly Blood.
jsthib
I think he resembles Charlie Manson.
Cam
Completely!