A 23-year-old man who threw flares into a Target store and a police car during May 1 protests that overran downtown Portland was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison.
Damion Zachary Feller offered no statements, but members of his family who sat in the gallery of the courtroom called out a message to him: “Please learn. We love you very much. And please learn.”
Feller pleaded guilty in September in Multnomah County Circuit Court to first-degree arson, second-degree arson, riot and first-degree criminal mischief.
The case against Feller was strong: A local TV station aired live footage of him hurling a flare through a shattered picture window at Target, prompting employees to run with fire extinguishers to put out a burning section of carpet. TV and cellphone cameras also caught Feller throwing a flare through the shattered window of a battered police SUV parked across the street from Target, at Southwest 10th Avenue and Morrison.