PORTLAND, Ore.  November 3 2018 A security guard was arrested in connection to an August incident in which police said he yelled racial slurs at a Muslim family, hit a Hispanic woman with a baton and pepper sprayed others.

Portland police said 37-year-old Nathan Scates was booked into the Multnomah County Jail Thursday on charges of 2nd-degree assault, 2nd-degree intimidation and 2nd-degree unlawful use of an electrical stun gun, tear gas or mace.

The investigation started on Aug. 10 when officers responded to a public dock on the Willamette River near 1510 SW Harbor Way.
Officer learned that Scates confronted several people on the dock — shouting racial and other slurs at a Muslim family.
Police said he also assaulted a Hispanic woman with an Asp baton, injuring her hand.

Scates walked away from the scene while being followed by the victims as well as other people. Police said Scates pepper sprayed two people who weren’t involved in the previous incident in an attempt to get away.

Scates was identified as the suspect after a length investigation. At his first court appearance Friday afternoon, Scates pleaded not guilty.

He was already being held for a situation earlier in August in McMinnville. In that incident, he was in his security guard uniform when he fired his gun and shot a woman in the leg.

That situation allegedly started after he took food off someone’s plate at a table outside a restaurant. When the diner and others confronted him, he fired several shots and fled.

For that case, he faces 15 charges including assault and unlawful use of a weapon.

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