The world may be a little bit better because one less violent Antifa terrorist is in it. I am not celebrating his death. Life is precious. It would have been better if this person were not so troubled in the first place and had not lashed out violently at the world and ended up dead at such a young age. It would have been better if he lived a long, happy, healthy life.
But that’s not who he was. He was not happy or healthy. He was not good. He was Antifa.
Isaiah Jason Maza, Jr. was his name and he was 19 years old at time of death.
It seems he engaged in dangerous, destructive, violent terrorism. As we’ll see, his alleged actions could have caused death and he would have been well aware of that fact. He could have caused a fire in a mostly barricaded building. Also, as we’ll see, it seems he had the potential to murder sooner or later. The world may a safer space than when he was alive.
On January 31, 2021, at approximately 5:30 p.m., officers from the East Precinct responded to a call of a stabbing in the 100 block of Northeast 120th Avenue. Upon their arrival, officers found an adult male victim with a stab wound. The victim died at the scene..
According to the Oregonian on February 1, 2021 (updated August 26, 2021)…
Isaiah Jason Maza Jr. was on a pass from his inpatient alcohol treatment at the Oregon Recovery Center when he was fatally stabbed near his mother’s home Sunday in Northeast Portland.
Maza had been released in September pending trial on federal charges for allegedly tossing an explosive through a broken window of the federal courthouse downtown in July and injuring a deputy U.S. marshal.
His mother, his defense lawyer and even prosecutors said Maza had been doing everything right while on release.
He had a job at Macy’s, was taking his treatment seriously, had applied to Portland State University to continue his education and was fighting to get visitation rights with his young daughter, whose name he had tattooed on his neck.
His mother Renee Maza said she was making dinner Sunday night when her son and his girlfriend wanted to walk to a nearby corner store to buy Takis chips.
“I don’t ever let my kids walk at night here,” Renee Maza said Monday. “It’s a bad area. I usually drive them. But I was cooking and I said to him, ‘There are a lot of thugs out there. You know how I feel about walking.’ He said to me, ‘Mama, I’ll be safe. We are just getting chips. I love you.’’'
Isaiah Maza didn’t get far. He was stabbed around 5:30 p.m. near Northeast 120th Avenue and Couch Street outside an apartment complex next to his mother’s home, according to the teen’s girlfriend and mother.
Police are seeking a suspect on a murder allegation but haven’t publicly identified him.
Maza’s 17-year-old girlfriend said she witnessed the stabbing.
She said they were headed to the market but “barely even made it a few feet” from his mother’s home when another teenager and his girlfriend approached from an apartment complex and walked toward Maza, saying, “What’s up?”
She said she didn’t know the teen but thought maybe he was friends with Maza. The other teen asked, “So are we going to do this?” and Maza responded, “Do what?” she said.
Then the other teenager suddenly started punching Maza and the two traded punches for about 10to 15 seconds before the other teen stabbed Maza in the chest and he collapsed on the sidewalk, she said. She called 911 and applied pressure to his chest until police arrived, she said, before running to alert Maza’s mother.
Maza knew his attacker and had problems with him in the past, his mother said.
In the courthouse case, Isaiah Maza had appeared in August on allegations of assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon and depredation of federal government property.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Sussman at the time described Maza as a “very dangerous man” who was caught on video tearing plywood covering the courthouse’s front glass panes. The video caught him lighting a fuse, then tossing a hand-sized explosive through the broken glass.
This article does not report the following detail from a report in 2020 by Law Enforcement Today…
The detonation that authorities say came from Maza’s explosive caused injuries to a deputy U.S. Marshal’s leg that was inside of the courthouse at the time.
Reportedly these actions occurred on July 22, 2020. The images in the following tweet by U.S. Attorney Oregon apparently show these actions.
Authorities did not immediately catch up with Maza until July 31st, where deputy marshals spotted him near the courthouse once again. While Maza attempted to flee from authorities initially, officers eventually caught up with the suspect and arrested him.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Sussman described Maza as a “very dangerous man” who was caught on video lighting the fuse, dropping the hand-sized explosive device inside the lobby of the courthouse “and then watching with his cellphone for the explosion.”
“This is a very vicious, very violent crime,” Sussman said. “That conduct is exceedingly dangerous. He was out of control that night. There’s nothing to say he will continue to be out of control in the future.”
Maza was on pretrial release from a state first-degree criminal mischief charge at the time of the July 22 incident. Deputy marshals arrested him Thursday after spotting him near the courthouse, at Southwest Third Avenue near Main Street. He ran from officers and they chased him before arresting him, according to court records.
A deputy U.S. marshal suffered leg injuries from an explosion that occurred at the front of the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse early on July 22, 2020.
Agents from the FBI and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives interviewed Maza, who first denied any involvement but then admitted he lit the device when shown a video of it, according to a federal affidavit.
Maza told federal agents that someone else had given him the explosive device and said he did not see anyone or any officers near where he had placed it and didn’t expect it would cause damage to the courthouse or harm anyone, the affidavit says.
Earlier, Maza was caught on surveillance video removing plywood from the exterior of the courthouse and another person broke the front glass with a piece of wood. Once the glass was broken, Maza is seen lighting a fuse or string to a yellow cylindrical object that he tossed through the glass opening, according to the affidavit.
Assistant Federal Public Defender Susan Russell said Maza is working on credits to complete his high school diploma after having previously attended Rosemary Anderson High School. He lives with his mother, has a 2-year-old child and works at Home Depot. She told the court he undergoes counseling for post traumatic stress and anxiety.
Sussman argued for Maza’s detention.
“This man needs to stay in custody,” Sussman said. “Apparently being on release to the state is not enough to deter him.”
Regarding that pre-trial release, Law Enforcement Today reported it was “criminal mischief”. If he were not released he would not have been able to commit this act. Back to the Oregonian report on August 3, 2020…
A video captured an initial smaller explosion and then a larger one as a deputy marshal exists the courthouse through the broken glass, Sussman said.
A deputy U.S. marshal was injured when the device exploded a second time as the officer was exiting the courthouse through the glass opening, according to a federal affidavit.
In a video shown to the court, the deputy “staggers and leans up against the side of the courthouse immediately after the large explosion,” Sussman said. The explosion injured the marshal’s leg, he said.
The marshal exited the courthouse through the broken glass because the front glass doors had been barricaded shut by others, Sussman said.
Maza offered to wear a GPS ankle bracelet and remain at home except for work if he’d be allowed to be out of custody pending trial.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Youlee Yim You said she was concerned that Maza appears to have stopped taking medication for mental health issues and questioned if his mother’s home is a good environment for him. She also sought more information on the pending state criminal mischief allegation from June 2.
“Without further information about those issues,” You said she didn’t feel comfortable releasing Maza.
She invited Maza and his lawyer to return to court Wednesday with more information.
If convicted, assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon is punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Willfully damaging government property is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Returning to the Oregonian report on February 1, 2021 (updated August 26, 2021)…
Noah Horst, Maza’s lawyer, a month later convinced U.S. Magistrate Judge Youlee Yim You to release Maza to get treatment. Horst had laid out Maza’s troubled past, his desire to address his problems and a proposed treatment plan.
Maza was doing well as a student at Rosemary Anderson High School until the pandemic forced a transition to remote learning last year, his lawyer said. He struggled with lack of structure and alcohol addiction and spiraled out of control into a mental health crisis, according to documents Horst filed in court.
Pandemic-related budget cuts also stopped sessions that Maza was having with a mental health counselor who had become a strong male role model, Horst said.
Maza was drinking heavily when the alleged federal offense occurred, according to his defense lawyer’s court filing.
Under the proposed treatment plan approved by the court, Maza was to be in treatment for a year or more for alcohol use and mental health issues.
Horst picked Maza up after his release from jail on Sept. 14 and drove him to the Oregon Recovery Center. The judge also ordered Maza be placed on GPS monitoring. Once he completed treatment at the recovery center, he was going to transition to a sober living program and therapeutic work at the Blanchet Farm, a residential treatment program on a Yamhill County farm.
“Isaiah was doing all the work he needed to do to prove to the court that he was on a better path,” Horst said.
“For this to happen when he’s on the way up is just so sad,” Horst said. “He had a lot going for him. He did everything we asked of him. I wanted him to be able to be one of those clients who would come back year after year after year and tell me how great he was doing. He was on a mission to be a role model for his younger brother and to make his mom proud.”
Renee Maza, who had been in regular contact with Horst in recent months, frantically called him Sunday night to tell him of her son’s death.
“Isaiah was my world, my light and my breath,” she said. “He has been through so much in life you couldn’t even imagine. He would get kicked down and get right back up. … This is all too much.”
Federal prosecutors dismissed the charges against Maza in February because he died.
Life is precious, so I am not happy that a person is dead, even an Antifa. But then again, his alleged actions could have killed people who were probably better than him and may have eventually succeeded. So, the world is better without this scumbag in it.
As far as I know, this would be the 6th Antifa killed in America in recent years.
Firstly, there is Heather Heyer who was killed at the Unite the Right event in Charlottesville August 12, 2017, ironically by a different kind of national socialist than June Knightly, but a socialist nonetheless.1
Secondly, Charlie Landeros in Eugene, Oregon on January 11, 2019, wrestled with some police, pulled out a handgun, fired it off wildly and was shot and killed by those police.2
Thirdly, Willem van Spronsen allegedly tried to blow open a wall at an ICE detention center and was killed by police on July 13, 2019.3
Fourthly, Conner Betts, the Dayton Ohio mass shooter was killed by law enforcement. He was Antifa.4
Fifthly, Sean Kelliher was killed, seemingly by an other Antifa.5
Sixth was Isaiah Jason Maza, Jr., the subject of this report, killed on January 31, 2020 in Portland, Oregon.
Seventh, Michael Reinoehl was killed by law enforcement after killing Aaron “Jay” Danielson.6
Eighth was Joseph Robert Snipe, reportedly, who was killed some time in May of 2021.7
Ninth was Jacob Camello AKA Andrea Mun AKA Spoon whose body was reportedly found stabbed and burned in Portland, Oregon.8
Tenth was June Knightly who was allegedly shot to death by Benjamin J. Smith in Portland, Oregon, February 19th, 2022.9
Eleventh was Cameron Taylor who was shot, possibky by a fellow antifa, on Augusty 28th, 2022 in Portland, Oregon.10
Antifa has killed Aaron “Jay” Danielson,11Lee Keltner,12 the an unnamed teen in the CHAZ,13 and of course the Dayton shooter, Conner Betts (whose social media we archived that showed he was Antifa) reportedly killed 9 people and wounded 17 others.14
