(Moriah Ratner/Getty Images) 'Mobbed and Bloodied' Andy Ngo, a Portland-based journalist, is seen covered in an unknown substance after unidentified Rose City Antifa members attacked him in Portland, Ore. Ngo in the abdomen with his fist, causing him "significant pain and severe emotional distress," the lawsuit stated. During the incident, one of the alleged Antifa members punched Mr. "While video-recording the events, Ngo was set upon by mask-clad Rose City Antifa members and others," his lawsuit states. Ngo alleged members of Antifa and their supporters had "physically accosted and viciously assaulted" him on multiple occasions in prior years, including in May 2019 while he was covering demonstrations that commemorated the pro-labor holiday "May Day" in Portland. The lawsuit sought compensatory damages exceeding $300,000 from the activists for assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The journalist later filed a civil lawsuit ( pdf) against Antifa activists alleging they were members of Rose City Antifa. He was later taken to a nearby hospital after suffering multiple head and body injuries following the assault. Hacker approached him clad in black and began interrogating him before punching him in the head and face. " The attacks against me and threats on my life are retribution for my work as a journalist, recording the tactics and true ideology of an extremist clandestine movement that relies on deception and regards," he wrote.Īccording to Mr. Ngo, a longtime anti-Antifa activist, said he believes the group wanted him "dead" because "I document what they want to stay hidden," according to the Epoch Times (continued below): "Had I not been able to shelter wounded and bleeding inside a hotel while they beat the doors and windows like animals, there is no doubt in my mind I would not be here today." " I was chased, attacked, and beaten by a masked mob, baying for my blood," he tweeted. As they interrogated me, one managed to pull off my mask and. I didn’t answer and attempted to walk away, but a group of masked people in black followed and surrounded me. Shortly before midnight, Antifa member John Hacker, who assaulted me in 2019, began asking me questions. Ngo, a senior editor at the Post Millennial, was brutally attacked on May 28, 2021, while filming at a rally marking the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd.Īccording to Ngo at the time, Antifa "tried to kill me again while I was reporting on the ongoing protests and riots in Portland" while preparing to write a book, "Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy." " He grabbed the faces that he saw that night and he sued them," the attorney said, according to The Oregonian. Richter's attorney, Michelle Burrows, argued that while Ngo had every right to sue his attackers, the assailants were dressed in black and were never identified.
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