Updated 3:57 p.m.

A right-wing activist best known for brawling at Portland protests is barred from participating in future city demonstrations for the next two years, a Multnomah County judge ruled Tuesday.

Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, 23, was also sentenced to two years’ probation and 80 hours of community service after he pleaded guilty to third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, for his role in a violent altercation prompted by political differences.

Circuit Judge Kathleen Dailey ordered he pay $1,800 in restitution to Timothy Ledwith, the man Toese and an associate, Donovan Flippo, pummeled during a 2018 confrontation in Northeast Portland.

As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors dropped a felony assault charge against Toese, who lives in Vancouver.

“I’m not going to say I was wrong. I’m just going to say I apologize,” said Toese during his plea hearing. “Forgive me.”

Ledwith also addressed the court.

“It’s been a long saga,” he said. “I’m just glad it’s over.”

Ledwith had told investigators Toese and Flippo were shouting slogans in support of President Donald Trump as well as homophobic slurs from a pickup truck near Northeast 12th Avenue and Broadway on June 8, 2018.

Ledwith, who was crossing the street, yelled back at them.

Toese and Flippo, who were both members of the Proud Boys, a right-wing fraternal organization, responded by punching Ledwith in the face, sending him to the hospital with a concussion, the injured man said. He later contacted police.

A self-described anti-fascist activist, Ledwith said he had previously attended Portland demonstrations opposing right-wing rallies at which Toese and Flippo had been participants.

Toese, who is 6 - foot - 4 and 265 pounds, gained notoriety as a member of the Proud Boys as well as Patriot Prayer, another right-wing group. He frequently fought and clashed with left-wing activists during street protests in Portland.

Toese also served as one of Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson’s closest confidants until the duo had a falling out.

A grand jury indicted Toese and Flippo in February, eight months after the attack on Ledwith.

Toese left for his hometown in American Samoa around the time prosecutors filed the criminal charges. Flippo pleaded guilty over the summer to fourth-degree assault and served eight days in jail.

Toese was returning to the United States mainland when he was arrested Oct. 4 at the Portland International Airport.

Later that month, he was jailed for 10 days in Multnomah County after he violated his probation on a harassment conviction stemming from a fight at a December 2017 demonstration in downtown Portland.

Following his assault conviction Tuesday, Toese said he was done with politics and wanted to focus his energies on his family and his Christian faith. He would not answer when asked whether he remained a member of the Proud Boys.

“There’s no more ‘Tiny.’ There’s no more ‘Big Boy Tiny.’ No more ‘Samoan Prowler’ in the streets,” he said.

Ledwith expressed some doubts about his assailant’s stated conversion.

“If the experience has really changed him, then I guess it was worth it,” he said. “But I might be skeptical.”

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