A man detained by federal police at a downtown Eugene protest on Tuesday, Aug. 26, was suspected of punching the mirror of a Department of Homeland Security vehicle at a protest two weeks earlier, a Homeland Security spokesperson said in an email Thursday.
“During an anti-ICE protest on August 12th, [the] protestor … obstructed a Federal Protective Service (FPS) officer’s vehicle and punched their side-view mirror,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
Federal Protective Service inspectors “identified [him] at another protest on August 27 and took him into custody for his prior actions,” according to the spokesperson…