![]() ![]() After RCA was dismissed from the case, the focus of the trial was predominantly about an incident that happened in 2021 in downtown Portland, in which Ngo attempted to “infiltrate” a protest, was promptly found out, chased out and took shelter at the Nines Hotel. As is his brand, Ngo pretended he was going against “Antifa” instead of two individuals.Īs Ngo’s claims fell apart, he and his legal team shifted the goalposts. Despite RCA not being a part of the trial, Andy Ngo and his ilk continue to advertise it as such in an attempt to get more donations and sympathy. The statute of limitations were also passed.Īdditionally, the lawsuit offered no evidence that any of Ngo’s assailants were members of Rose City Antifa, nor did it show that RCA directed people to attack him as Ngo claimed. ![]() On July 14th, weeks before this trial began, a Multnomah County judge dismissed Rose City Antifa (RCA) from this lawsuit on the grounds that they are “not a discrete entity under common law” and therefore could not be sued or served. When the lawsuit was originally filed in 2020, Ngo was trying to sue Rose City Antifa and about 50 other unidentified people-called “John and Jane Does” in legalese-claiming assault and injuries from numerous different instances, including in 2019 when he got hit with a milkshake, and later in 2021 when he was assaulted after being found “undercover” by leftists at an event in 2021. Those caught in Ngo’s crosshairs regularly receive harassment and death threats-and worse. He regularly posts mugshots and selectively-edited footage of activists and independent journalists arrested at protests to his hundreds of thousand of followers on Twitter all the while lying about them being part of a nefarious “antifa” organization that does not exist. Ngo is-or for a long time was-based in Portland. In Ngo’s conspiratorial narrative, they’re a highly organized, nefarious gang with ties to the Democratic party that victimizes innocent, freedom-loving Americans. The decision followed an intense week of statements from both the plaintiff and the defendants and a courtroom and listening rooms packed with far-right agitators trying to provoke confrontation.Īndy Ngo, for those unfamiliar, is a far-right propagandist whose main schtick in the right-wing media ecosystem is scaremongering about “antifa.” In the real world, antifascists are usually local activists who research and intervene when the far-right organizes or otherwise attempts to cause violence. Three other defendants were found in default, meaning they did not appear in court. Both were found not liable for Ngo’s assault. Ngo, a far-right propagandist, baselessly alleged local independent journalist John Hacker and local activist Elizabeth Richter were involved in a 2020 assault against him. After a few hours of deliberations, a jury rejected Andy Ngo’s attempt to sue two defendants in a civil trial. ![]()
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