Updated 2:56 p.m.

A man who said he was attacked outside a Portland bar for wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat while on a date with his wife had menaced and threatened patrons at a different bar earlier in the evening, according to the customer who captured the scene on video.

“The second I locked eyes with him there was no doubt in my mind he was looking for a fight,” Michael Radosevich told The Oregonian/OregonLive on Tuesday.

Footage captured by Radosevich shows the man hurling expletives and pointing at people inside The Vern on Friday night while claiming he served in the military and had been disrespected.

Multiple patrons can be heard in the video telling the man he needs to leave the bar, located in the 2600 block of Southeast Belmont Street.

“Come outside and see what happens,” the man, identified as Luke Lenzner, says at one point.

“No one wants to fight,” Radosevich and at least one other person can be heard yelling back. Lenzner eventually takes off.

Police later that night arrested two people on suspicion of pummeling Lenzner outside a second Southeast Portland bar, less than a mile away.

Adebisi Okuneye, 23, and Leopold Hauser, 22, face third-degree assault accusations in the alleged attack, court records show.

While Lenzner has claimed in interviews he was “mobbed” and beaten because of his red baseball hat, which bears the slogan for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Radosevich said the earlier incident he witnessed casts doubt on the man’s account.

“It’s not adult behavior to go out and troll people,” Radosevich said. “And that’s all this was. One giant troll.”

Lenzner did not respond to phone calls and a Facebook message seeking comment. In a statement sent to KATU News on Tuesday, he claimed that someone at The Vern had placed a toilet seat cover on his head and that another patron threw something at him.

Lenzner also said he never served in the military, but some of his family members have. “In the heat of the moment it came out wrong,” he said in the statement. “I’m truly sorry for that.”

Phone calls to The Vern went unanswered Tuesday afternoon.

Radosevich, 33, said he had been with some friends at The Vern when a man in a MAGA hat walked in with a woman around 10:30 p.m.

The couple took a seat at the bar and ordered drinks. Radosevich said the man spent the next few minutes scanning the room and staring down anyone who happened to lock eyes with him.

“He was a big dude and people were starting to feel uncomfortable,” he said. “I would equate wearing a MAGA hat in hyper-liberal Portland to wearing Klan robes in a black community. It’s just not something that you do.”

A female bartender appeared to sense the growing unease, Radosevich said. After about 10 or 15 minutes, she asked the man to leave, he said.

That’s when the man erupted, according to Radosevich.

“I don’t deserve to be treated like this,” Radosevich recalled the man saying. “I served my country.”

The man then began to accuse people inside the bar of being cowards and “draft dodgers,” Radosevich said. The U.S. discontinued its draft for military service in 1973.

As the man became more agitated, Radosevich said he took out his phone and began filming the incident, which lasted for about another 90 seconds.

Two hours later, around 12:50 a.m. Saturday, police responded to Growler’s Taproom in the 3300 block of Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard and arrested Okuneye and Hauser.

Court documents show Lenzner’s wife, who is not named, told police that she and her husband had been to several bars that night and that she was curious how people in Portland would react to his hat.

She had asked her husband to wear the hat so she could see how people would treat him, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Hauser, according to court records, told police that he and his friends at the bar had taken offense to Lenzner’s hat and stared him down.

Okuneye, a black woman, told police that Lenzner later came out of the bar and approached he, allegedly calling her an expletive and asking: “How do you like my hat?”

Lenzner told police that Okuneye “got in his face.” He then pushed back to create distance.

That’s when Lezner said Hauser punched him in the face, court records show.

-- Shane Dixon Kavanaugh; 503-294-7632

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