Statement on May 28, 2021 Antifa assault: No journalist in America should ever face violence for doing his or her job. Yet on Friday, May 28, Antifa tried to kill me again while I was reporting on the ongoing protests and riots in Portland, Ore. for a new chapter of my...
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Pioneer Place Mall, punching my head and face repeatedly, while I pleaded for them not to kill me. All the time I could hear the angry cries and footsteps of the mob approaching.pic.twitter.com/MsN7fj3c41
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In the chaos, I managed to seize a moment when my attackers were distracted and crawled away. As soon as I could get to my feet, I sprinted inside the only business I could see that was open —The Nines Hotel. I begged hotel staff to call 911, but they refused and ordered me...pic.twitter.com/CWxwFS1nMH
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to wear a mask and leave the property. I insisted, reminding them of the violent mob outside seeking to kill me. By now, masked Antifa operatives were pounding on the hotel doors and windows, screaming and shouting my name and trying to break inside.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdAlHhQ1UFA …
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It seemed obvious they intended to make good on hundreds of threats over the past two years to kill me.pic.twitter.com/93ZifwJTHA
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Afraid the windows would shatter and let the mob in, I begged someone to let me go up the elevator to escape from the lobby. For 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.
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Dozens of riot police took up positions in front of the building where at least one online video shows extremists swearing and screaming at officers for “protecting Andy Ngo.” At least one Antifa member was arrested according to the... https://twitter.com/alissaazar/status/1398752793213603840?s=21 …
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Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon, felony attempted assault, felony riot and other crimes. His bail was immediately covered by an Antifa bail fund group.https://archive.ph/DmSAO
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Later, I was escorted to an ambulance by a medic from Portland Fire and Rescue through a back entrance of the hotel.pic.twitter.com/zW3Iov5Uwt
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I was treated in the ER for multiple injuries to my head and body.pic.twitter.com/uCTr59LwaL
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When Antifa last beat me for doing my job in 2019, doctors told me I could have died from the brain hemorrhage caused by the blows to my head. I have made more than two dozen reports of subsequent threats and attacks to the Portland Police,...
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and as far as I am aware no action has been taken. After the 2019 assault, Antifa and their sympathizers sought to cast me as a liar, white supremacist and far-right agitator who deserved to be beaten.pic.twitter.com/XujdVdBxJz
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These lies will be used again to try to discredit me and other journalists reporting on Antifa, and to distort the facts. But there is only one truth.
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I 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. And I call on journalists and all those who believe in the First Amendment to...
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join me in standing against the tyranny of those who use violence to terrorize, silence and suppress the truth.
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