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Patriot Prayer founder and far-right provocateur Joey Gibson will stand trial this week facing one charge of riot, a class C felony in Oregon. Jury selection began Monday and is scheduled to continue through Thursday.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Far-right Patriot Prayer founder Joey Gibson's trial starts this week on one count of felony riot in connection with a brawl outside a Portland, Oregon, bar in 2019. Jury selection began Monday and is scheduled to continue through Thursday, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported .
After numerous delays due to COVID-19 precautions, the May Day 2019 riot charges against members of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer—including ringleader Joey Gibson—are finally having their day in court. Monday is the first day of jury selection for the joint trial, which questions whether Gibson, MacKenzie Lewis, and Russell Shultz engaged in a riot on May 1, 2019 outside of now-defunct Northeast Portland bar Cider Riot. Since three years have passed since the street.