Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Sussman played two video surveillance clips for the judge that he said captured Hoopes hurling large rocks at the building, including one thrown inside the front door that left a 2-inch gash above an officer’s right eye that required medical care, and Hoopes then using the metal pole of an upended stop sign to repeatedly hit the front door….
…McHenry countered that his client has strong ties to the Portland community, has no criminal history, graduated from Reed in 2023 and works as a waiter at a local McMenamins restaurant. He was raised in a Quaker community and is immersed in his faith and nonviolent political action, McHenry said.
The theological training does not seem to have worked.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Youlee Yim You asked who was in the public gallery to support the 24-year-old and Hoopes began to cry as they identified themselves and their connections to him.
You agreed to release Hoopes pending trial with location monitoring. She ordered that he have no intentional contact with any ICE officer, stay away from a specified area around the ICE building, undergo a mental health evaluation and take all the medications that are prescribed to him. He also was ordered not to have any guns, other weapons or throw rocks at anyone.
The “take all medications prescribed to him” stands out a bit. And I kind of love that he was ordered not to “throw rocks at anyone.”