{"id":235509,"date":"2021-06-08T06:50:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T06:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=235509"},"modified":"2021-06-09T07:51:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T07:51:14","slug":"author-andy-ngo-who-exposed-antifa-says-he-was-beaten-by-masked-mob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=235509","title":{"rendered":"Author Andy Ngo, who exposed Antifa, says he was beaten by \u2018masked mob\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Lee Brown \u2013 NY Post June 3, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>An author who recently <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/30\/how-a-portland-radical-murdered-a-trump-supporter\/\">published a book <\/a>exposing Antifa said he was beaten and chased by the left-wing militant group while covering ongoing protests in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAntifa tried to kill me again,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1400266501601513475\">Andy Ngo tweeted<\/a> late Wednesday, sharing photos of injuries he said were inflicted in the attack last Friday at a rally marking the anniversary of the first <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/07\/portland-police-arrested-more-than-100-over-weekend\/\">protest in the troubled city<\/a> after George Floyd\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was chased, attacked and beaten by a masked mob, baying for my blood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad 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,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seemed obvious they intended to make good on hundreds of threats over the past two years to kill me,\u201d he said, sharing images of graffiti including the message <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1400266564524511233\">\u201cMurder Andy Ngo\u201d<\/a> as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1400266507075178499\">disturbing tweets<\/a>, including one saying, \u201cAndy Ngo needs to go, one way or the other.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It seemed obvious they intended to make good on hundreds of threats over the past two years to kill me. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/93ZifwJTHA\">pic.twitter.com\/93ZifwJTHA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andy Ng\u00f4 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1400266564524511233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAntifa wants me dead because I document what they want to stay hidden,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Ngo \u2014 who has said he was previously attacked in 2019 \u2014 said he was at the protest to get fresh material for an update to <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2021\/03\/10\/mumford-sons-boot-guitarist-for-praising-book-condemning-antifa\/?_ga=2.100617433.638088941.1622541776-225148805.1606918943\">his controversial book<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Unmasked-Antifas-Radical-Destroy-Democracy\/dp\/154605958X?tag=nypost-20\">Unmasked: Inside Antifa\u2019s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he was first cornered by the same Antifa militant he has accused of assaulting him two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA group of masked people in black followed and surrounded me. As they interrogated me, one managed to pull off my mask and immediately yelled, \u2018That\u2019s Andy. Get him! Get him!,&#8217;\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo journalist in America should ever face violence for doing his or her job,\u201d Andy Ngo wrote.Twitter<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_226706\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/andy-ngo-attacked-600x400-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226706\" class=\"wp-image-226706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/andy-ngo-attacked-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-226706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Ngo, a Portland-based journalist, is seen covered in an unknown substance after being attacked by Antifa in Portland, Ore., on June 29, 2019. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOne of the black-clad Antifa members tackled me to the ground \u2026 punching my head and face repeatedly, while I pleaded for them not to kill me,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n<p>He managed to run inside the Nines Hotel, sharing video footage of him cowering behind the front desk as a woman inside warns him, \u201cWe\u2019re going to beat the f\u2013k out of you, bitch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other footage shows several people banging on doors and trying to get into the hotel, shouting threats and calling the journalist \u201cNazi scum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor more than an hour, Antifa extremists kept trying to get into the hotel to hunt me down and finish the job they started on the street,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>He was eventually rescued by EMTs and taken to an emergency room, sharing images of wounds to his hands, left knee and right abdomen and a bloodied right eye.<\/p>\n<p>He said that \u201cone Antifa member was arrested\u201d and charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon, felony attempted assault, felony riot and other crimes, but was immediately bailed out \u201cby an Antifa bail fund group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo journalist in America should ever face violence for doing his or her job,\u201d Ngo wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI call on the Portland Police and federal authorities to act on this before Antifa operatives hiding behind their masks succeed in murdering an American journalist on their watch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I call on journalists and all those who believe in the First Amendment to join me in standing against the tyranny of those who use violence to terrorize, silence and suppress the truth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Portland police confirmed to The Post that an attack took place Friday night, but would not name the victim or provide additional details.<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Eileen AJ Connelly<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/03\/author-andy-ngo-says-he-was-beaten-by-mob-in-portland\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press freedom is now dead in America. On the one hand the corporate media are carefully avoiding some stories, while on the other violent Antifa mobs are attacking journalists who won\u2019t tow the line<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":191091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Ersatz_Media_Activists"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235686,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235509\/revisions\/235686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/191091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}