18 Facts About Tusitala Toese

Tusitala John Toese was born on June 4,1996 and known as Tiny, is a convicted felon.

Tusitala Toese is a member of the Proud Boys, a far-right group that engages in political violence in the United States.

Tusitala Toese was, and still is, a member of the Portland area far-right group Patriot Prayer, prior to joining the Proud Boys and has been convicted of multiple criminal charges for violence at rallies.

Tusitala Toese was then arrested at another Patriot Prayer rally on December 9,2017, after he struck a counter protester in the face.

Tusitala Toese was convicted of harassment stemming from the fight at the December 2017 rally in downtown Portland.

Tusitala Toese is affiliated with both Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys.

In May 2018, when in the company of several Proud Boys members, Tusitala Toese was filmed getting into a physical altercation with a teenager at the Vancouver Mall in Clark County, Washington before security officers intervened and separated them.

Tusitala Toese appeared at a Patriot Prayer rally in August 2018 wearing a shirt printed with "Pinochet was right" and RWDS, shorthand used by the Proud Boys for "right wing death squad".

The BBC reported that by March 2019, Tusitala Toese had been arrested 18 times, on charges including assault, harassment and disorderly conduct.

Tusitala Toese was indicted by a grand jury and charged with assault following a June 8,2018, incident in Portland, Oregon that left a man with "stitches and a concussion".

Tusitala Toese was arrested on October 4,2019, at Portland International Airport when returning from American Samoa.

Tusitala Toese pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in January 2020 and was barred from attending protests for two years.

In June 2020, Tusitala Toese was filmed engaging in a fight outside Seattle's Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone.

In October 2020, Tusitala Toese was sentenced to six months in jail for a probation violation related to the 2018 conviction for misdemeanor assault.

Tusitala Toese was among the speakers at a Proud Boys event in Portland dubbed "The Summer of Love" on August 22,2021, that ended in a brawl in the Parkrose neighborhood with shots fired in downtown Portland.

Tusitala Toese was reportedly shot in the ankle during an anti COVID lockdown protest in Olympia, Washington on September 4,2021.

Tusitala Toese was arrested in December 2021 in connection with the August rally in East Portland which occurred earlier that same year.

Tusitala Toese was released from county jail on bail around June 8,2022, and court records from November 15,2022, allege that he was not returning calls to his pre-trial release officer and had let his GPS ankle monitor go dead.