Yesterday was sunny and warm here, so naturally another brawl broke out in downtown Portland.
Andy Ngo, a conservative media commentator based in Portland, was punched several times and splashed with liquid and Silly String while live-streaming. Ngo was visibly bleeding from the face after the encounter.
"I just got beat up by the crowd, no police at all, in the middle of the street, and they stole my GoPro," Ngo said in message to his 150,000 social media followers. He said later he would seek treatment at a local hospital. The video showed Ngo, editor of Quilette, being punched and kicked by masked assailants dressed in black and then being hit by various containers of liquid as he is retreating.
The Portland Police Department tweeted after the assault that it received information that some of the milkshakes being thrown by protestors contained “quick-drying cement”.
Ngo is presently in hospital recovering from a torn earlobe and a brain-bleed. He'd shown up at the demonstrations to document the violent behavior of Antifa, a terrorist group whose members have repeatedly sought to silence the Proud Boys and ostracize the free-speech group from the virulently far-left city.
Disturbing. Attacking a messenger shows weakness, not strength. Hopefully the authorities will get to the bottom of this. https://t.co/lSN2uZCASD
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 30, 2019
Brian, this is Portland! The cops come out in riot gear, shoot some rubber bullets and pepper balls. And so on.
Sources: Portland Tribune and others.
