Dakotah Horton

Released
Full name:Dakotah Ray Horton
Date of birth:09. 05. 2002
Age:24
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:2020s
State:Oregon
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year 8 Months 11 Days
Support
Anti-Fascism Police Accountability Black Lives Matter Movement
Dakotah Horton

Biography

Dakotah Horton is a Portland, Oregon activist who was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for assaulting a Deputy U.S. Marshal with a baseball bat during sustained anti-police/BLM protests at the Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland on July 27, 2020. Horton struck a kneeling marshal from behind with a wooden bat during a chaotic confrontation between federal officers — deployed by the Trump administration — and protesters. A loaded firearm was also found on him at arrest. He pleaded guilty in federal court and was sentenced in December 2021 before Judge Michael H. Simon.

Case

Federal Bureau of Prisons
Charges: Assaulting a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon (18 U.S.C. § 111(b)) — struck a Deputy U.S. Marshal from behind with a wooden baseball bat at the Hatfield Federal Courthouse during BLM/anti-federal-deployment protests, Portland, Oregon, July 27, 2020; a loaded firearm was also recovered at arrest
Arrested: Aug 17, 2020
Incarcerated: Aug 19, 2020
Released: Apr 30, 2022
Sentence: 24 months federal prison + 3 years supervised release Verdict as recorded: Yes — guilty plea (December 2021)
Judge: U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: California

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