ZACHARY TYLER HAY | Man Goes on White Supremacist Rant, Flashes Gun. Police Say It’s Just ‘Free Speech’ | Arrested for a hate crime after calling a Black security guard a slur before siccing his pit bull on him. Three people mauled. | 2 ALS

Zachary Tyler Hay, a 29-year-old man, was arrested and charged with felony assault and bias crime. The charges stem from an incident that occurred on May 12, 2024, in the 1300 block of Southwest Alder Street, Portland. Hay allegedly used racial slurs against an adult male, who is Black, and ordered his dog to attack. The victim, a security officer at a grocery store in Downtown Portland, sustained significant injuries to his chest and hand. A second victim, a white male, was also injured in the incident.

On May 20, 2024, one of the victims spotted Hay in Downtown Portland and called 911. Detectives from the Major Crimes Unit happened to be in the area and responded to assist Central Precinct officers in taking Hay into custody. Hay was lodged at the Multnomah County Detention Center on charges of Assault in the Second Degree (two counts) and Bias Crime in the First Degree. His dog was transported to Multnomah County Animal Services.  

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Portland police arrested a dog owner they say ordered his pit bull to attack two people – injuring a total of three people – in what has been charged as a hate crime.

Zachary Tyler Hay, 29, pleaded not guilty to the allegations against him during his arraignment in Multnomah County Circuit Court, a day after one of the victims spotted him in downtown Portland and police responded to arrest him.

The attack unfolded May 12 in the 1300 block of Southwest Alder Street, about five blocks northeast of Providence Park, according to police. The Black victim heard a commotion and ran toward it to find Hay commanding his dog to attack a white teenager, who was repeatedly bitten, police said. As the Black victim tried to intervene, Hay recognized him as a security guard at a downtown grocery store. Hay then uttered a racist slur and sicced his dog on him, police said.

The Black man suffered “severe bites to his chest and his right hand, which partially de-gloved his right thumb,” according to papers filed by the prosecution.

A third victim, another white man, also tried to stop the dog from attacking the Black man, police said. He was bitten in the groin.

Police said Hay fled. And once arrested, Hay told police his dog became unleashed during the encounter with the men and that the dog attacked because the men were acting aggressively.

Hay appeared in court Tuesday to hear the charges against him:, including two counts of second-degree assault with “a dangerous weapon,” which prosecutors defined as the dog. Hay also is charged with first-degree bias crime and three counts of maintaining a dangerous dog. Judge Chanpone Sinlapasai ordered him held in jail until another judge can assess whether he should be released pending trial.

VIDEO: Portland man called racial slur then attacked by Pitbull | https://youtu.be/AB9nsj0_4mk

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