The Portland brute who allegedly beat a driver unknowingly is a father who was recently fired from his security job, according to social media and reports.
More details about Marquise Love, 25, emerged Wednesday when police continued to search him in the alleged attack on Sunday night on driver Adam Haner.
Video shows Love, wearing a vest that said “Safety,” which Haner allegedly kicked in the face – and got out – when the victim was sitting on the sidewalk. The beatdown occurred after Haner crashed his 4 × 4 truck and he was dragged out of the car by the pool of Black Lives Matter protesters.
Love remarks posted on Snapchat about the alleged attack.
“Could go to jail for murder for a racist last night when all I did was fight him,” he wrote. ‘Find it on twitter money on my books and come see me.’
Police said Haner was treated at the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries and released. He has since posted photos of himself with two black eyes.
Love worked as a security guard but was fired from a local company four months ago, KOIN reported.
Photos on his since-deleted Facebook page show him posing with his young son in a Black Lives Matter T-shirt and DJing. He described himself as a ‘disaster agent’ at Portland International Airport, although the airport said he had not worked there for several years.
“This person does not work at PDX and has not for a number of years,” the airport said said in a tweet.
He worked for Menzies Aviation at the airport until July 2016, a Portland spokesman told the Washington Post.
Love’s Facebook page says he lives in Portland, but is originally from Miami, Florida.
Police are unable to find Love and encourage him to turn himself in. They said they were also trying to reach the transgender woman, who witnesses said Haner was trying to help when he was attacked.
They warned the public against contacting Love, saying “it could be dangerous.”
“Even the information circulating on social media is not always accurate,” police wrote.
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