John Malkovich’s son was arrested at a violent Black Lives
Matter rally in Portland, Oregon, where marchers attacked cops
trying to protect their union building amid chants of “burn it
down,” according to authorities.
The actor’s Portland-based software engineer son Loewy
Malkovich, 38, was listed as one of 27 people arrested Friday
night — the 100th consecutive night of protests in the whitest
major city in the US.
He was busted on charges of interfering with a peace officer,
and second-degree disorderly conduct, according to a release by
the Portland Police Bureau.
No details were given as to what he was personally accused of
doing during the night of violence that was ruled an unlawful
assembly as police say they were attacked with rocks and bottles
while protecting the building previously attacked by arsonists.
His low-level charges fall into the category that Multnomah
County District Attorney Mike Schmidt said his office will not
even prosecute.
However, some of the Oregon State Police making arrests have
been federally deputized, which means protesters like Malkovich
could face federal charges, Willamette Week noted.
Malkovich did not follow his “Being John Malkovich” star dad
into acting, and his LinkedIn profile says he is a Junior
Software Engineer at Chainstarters Inc in the City of Roses.
He also presumably didn’t get his political activism from his
father either, with the 66-year-old actor admitting to The
Guardian in May that he can’t stand politics and hasn’t voted
since 1972’s US presidential election, when he cast his ballot
for the Democrat, George McGovern.
“I guess I think the system is pretty corrupt,” he told the UK
paper.
He also has a reputation as a “warmongering neo-con,” the paper
noted, supporting the invasion of Iraq and the death penalty, of
which he once said: “I would have no problem pushing the switch
while having dinner.”
While his son moved to Portland, his daughter, Amandine, works
in a grocery store while living with her parents in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, the actor said at the time. Their mother —
Malkovich’s partner of more than 30 years, Nicoletta Peyran — is
an academic, he said.
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violent-blm-rally-in-portland/