{"id":292739,"date":"2017-02-01T15:46:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/leader-of-portland-anti-trump-protests-charged-with-sexually-abusing-minor\/"},"modified":"2017-02-02T00:34:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T23:34:46","slug":"leader-of-portland-anti-trump-protests-charged-with-sexually-abusing-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/leader-of-portland-anti-trump-protests-charged-with-sexually-abusing-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"Leader Of Portland Anti-Trump Protests Charged With Sexually Abusing Minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/01\/31\/leader-of-portland-anti-trump-protests-charged-with-sexually-abusing-minor\/\"><strong>Daily Caller<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 31, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the leaders of disorderly anti-Trump protests in Portland, Oregon\u00a0is facing sexual abuse charges after\u00a0a police investigation into his relationship with a teenage boy, local news outlets are reporting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Micah Rhodes,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kgw.com\/news\/crime\/portland-anti-trump-activist-leader-accused-of-sex-abuse\/394582060\" target=\"_blank\">who was expected in court Monday<\/a>, is a leader of the protest group Portland\u2019s Resistance. The 23-year-old Rhodes is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/koin.com\/2017\/01\/30\/portlands-resistance-co-leader-charged-with-sexual-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\">already a registered sex offender<\/a>, according to KOIN, and was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/koin.com\/2016\/11\/21\/anti-trump-student-protesters-rally-at-holladay-park\/\" target=\"_blank\">previously arrested for disorderly conduct<\/a>\u00a0in connection with anti-Trump protests after the election.<\/p>\n<p>Rhodes was first taken into custody at an anti-Trump protest on January 25.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Micah Rhodes detained, taken away in squad car near SW corner of pioneer square <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/portlandprotest?src=hash\">#portlandprotest<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v3DmpRHCUM\">pic.twitter.com\/v3DmpRHCUM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Killen (@killendave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/killendave\/status\/824404475594956800\">January 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rhodes allegedly met the teenage boy on gay dating app Grindr. The teen told police that Rhodes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kgw.com\/news\/crime\/portland-anti-trump-activist-leader-accused-of-sex-abuse\/394582060\" target=\"_blank\">knew he was a minor<\/a>\u00a0before they had sex, but that the two did so on multiple occasions anyway.\u00a0The charges are for\u00a0statutory, non-forced rape, local news outlets are reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Portland has been the site of ongoing violent protests against Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/01\/31\/leader-of-portland-anti-trump-protests-charged-with-sexually-abusing-minor\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Caller January 31, 2017 One of the leaders of disorderly anti-Trump protests in Portland, Oregon\u00a0is facing sexual abuse charges after\u00a0a police investigation into his relationship with a teenage boy, local news outlets are reporting. Micah Rhodes,\u00a0who was expected in court Monday, is a leader of the protest group Portland\u2019s Resistance. The 23-year-old Rhodes is\u00a0already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-292739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}