A man who stuck a racist sticker to the outside of a Portland refugee agency was sentenced this month to probation — and anti-racist reading.

Jarl J. Rockhill admitted to affixing the sticker, which showed a male figure making a Nazi salute above the word “pure,” to a fence at the Immigrant & Refugee Community Organization on NE Glisan Street on April 23.

Rockhill was convicted of committing a second-degree bias crime, the legal term for a hate crime, on Dec. 1 as part of a plea deal in Multnomah County Circuit Court. Judge Christopher Ramras sentenced Rockhill to 50 hours of community service and ordered him to write a letter of apology to the organization and to write reports on “Between the World and Me,” by acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the 2018 documentary “Myanmar’s Killing Fields.”

The nonprofit typically known as IRCO said Rockhill’s actions had attempted to rob the city’s newcomers of their safe haven.

“No one from IRCO did anything to disturb you, but you went out of your way to bring pain to our community,” the statement said. “The people of IRCO know you may never change, but they do hope you take this as a lesson: hate is not welcome here.”

Rockhill did not apologize in court and later declined to comment to The Oregonian. His attorney, Ross Denison, said he was “taking responsibility for his actions.”

Police recovered a trove of rifles and neo-Nazi literature from Rockhill’s West Linn home during his arrest in May after authorities noticed his distinctive tattoos and a license plate belonging to the 35-year-old in surveillance footage.

The guns will remain in the possession of the Portland Police Bureau while Rockhill serves two years of probation, according to court documents. Rockhill was convicted in Clackamas County in 2010 of being a felon in possession of a restricted weapon.

“Between the World and Me” explores the violence inflicted on Black people throughout American history. It won the National Book Award in 2015. The 2018 PBS documentary “Myanmar’s Killing Fields” depicts how security forces have waged a deadly campaign of ethnic cleansing against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims.

Deputy District Attorney Julian Samuels asked Ramras to waive all fines and fees, saying that Rockhill was working full time at a hydraulics maintenance business to care for his ailing mother.

Ramras imposed $100 in attorneys fees and warned Rockhill that he would impose as much as 150 hours of additional community service if the reports and apology letter weren’t sincere.

“When people are ordered to do things, sometimes they do it just because they’re ordered to,” Ramras said. “Its effectiveness is going to depend on whether you really take it to heart.”