MAY 21, 2019

Hate crime indictment filed against Southeast Portland resident

Today, Multnomah District Attorney Rod Underhill announced the filing of a five-count indictment against 19-year-old Camar Livingstone.

The indictment charges Livingstone with one count of unlawful use of a weapon, one count of menacing, one count of harassment and two counts of intimidation in the second degree.

Intimidation is one of Oregon’s bias crimes laws.

Court documents allege that Livingstone unlawfully and intentionally, because of his perception of the victim’s sexual orientation, subjected that person to offensive physical contact; unlawfully and intentionally carried, with the intent to use, a machete; unlawfully and intentionally harassed the victim and unlawfully and intentionally placed the victim in fear of imminent serious physical injury.

According to court documents, on May 6, 2019, the victim, an adult male, was working at a local department store as a loss prevention officer when he saw Livingstone engaged in suspicious behavior. The loss prevention officer attempted to contact Livingstone, who then quickly approached the victim and started using homophobic language and made threats to harm the loss prevention officer, according to court documents. At one point, Livingstone, as he moved around the store, threw merchandise towards the loss prevention officer.

The victim requested assistance from other loss prevention officers, according to court documents. During the altercation, Livingstone punched the victim in the face. A second loss prevention officer arrived and tried to get Livingstone away from the victim.

When this occurred, according to court documents, Livingstone grabbed a machete from his pants and started to wave it around. Livingstone approached both the victim and the second loss prevention officer who responded as backup.

Livingstone fled the store, but was arrested a short time later by members of the Portland Police Bureau.

Livingstone was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center and then released to Multnomah County Pretrial Release Service the next day.

He is scheduled to appear in court for arraignment May 21, 2019 at approximately 2 p.m.

An indictment is only an accusation of a crime. Livingstone is innocent unless and until proven guilty.

The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office continues to work closely with its law enforcement partners to investigate all bias crime allegations that occur in the Multnomah County. Any person who believes they have been the subject of a hate crime is urged to contact law enforcement to file a police report.

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Contact: Brent Weisberg, Communications Director
Phone: 503.988.6567
Email: Brent.Weisberg@mcda.us