Man Who Threw Flares During May Day Protest Gets 5 Years

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.

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