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One political organizer in Portland who has received death threats stemming from Ngo’s work says, “It’s an arms race for money, and the narrative isn’t the point - the grift is. But to keep the ratings and the money flowing, the outrage machine must be cranked ever louder, risking greater violence. Figures like Carlson and Ngo reap followers, prominence, and income from the outrage and threats of violence. The incident was an example of a disturbing media model for the Trump era: opportunists using biased reporting, social media, and wild accusations inflame vigilante and digital mobs to target “enemies” such as the media, Democrats, and left-wing activists. Ngo was a bit player, but the incident bolstered him. One source says the social service agency that fired him over the video “was flooded with hundreds of harassing calls and Facebook messages that were explicitly racist and threatening to harm and kill staff.”Ĭarlson credited Ngo with publicizing the videos. Eventually the man in the video was identified, which started a new round of harassment.

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A video of a left-wing activist harassing a woman claiming to be a 9/11 widow was posted days later to The Daily Caller, which was cofounded by Tucker Carlson. (The woman appears to have lied about being a 9/11 widow.) Efforts to doxx the man hurling invective resulted in a professional skateboarder from Portland being falsely identified and inundated with death threats. The flash march created new viral moments. One reporter said they were maced by Antifa for no reason.īut it didn’t end there. At least one right-wing brawler was caught on video stomping a person on the ground, but no arrests were ever made. The march degenerated into street battles between right-wing fighters and masked antifascists as downtown bargoers looked on confused. But in a city that’s become an epicenter of far-right violence, the white nationalist friendly Patriot Prayer leaped on the faux outrage for a “ Flash march for law and order in PDX” a week later. The only significant lawbreaking was by the driver, who could have been charged with vehicular assault.

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The Wall Street Journal gave Ngo a platform where he omitted crucial evidence that the driver deliberately struck a protester, while hyping outrage of a “mob” of “angry, agitated ingrates and criminals” marching for a dead black criminal, attacking a lone elderly white victim. Carlson’s guest was Andy Ngo playing an expert on lax law enforcement in Portland in an affected British accent. But another video of the incident began circulating where it is difficult to see the protester being struck, enabling false claims such as, “#ANTIFA Anarchists Threaten Elderly Driver in Portland!” The story jumped to Fox News with Tucker Carlson replaying the obscured video, blaming everyone from Antifa and Occupy ICE to the Washington Post, Maxine Waters, Hillary Clinton, and protesters yelling at Trump officials in restaurants. The driver left in his car without any more incident as protesters yelled, “Get out of here.” Down the block, a brief confrontation ensues with a protester shoving the driver once and others hitting his vehicle.

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A local TV station that recorded the incident wrote: “ driver plows through protesters.” Video shows a man stopping in front of a silver Lexus that then strikes him and pushes him for more than thirty feet. A driver made an illegal right turn into protesters who were in a crosswalk and had the walk sign. There was one dicey moment during the march. Kimmons’s family members joined in what local media described as a “ peaceful” and uneventful event. The Black Lives Matter–style activist group, Don’t Shoot Portland, called for a protest on October 6. It begins with Portland police killing Patrick Kimmons, a 27-year-old African-American male, in disputed circumstances. An incident from October 2018 in Portland, Oregon, illustrates his role well. More importantly, they fail to define his role in far-right politics, media, and violence. The New York Times calls Ngo an “independent journalist.” CNN describes him as a “conservative journalist.” Other outlets term Ngo a “ conservative writer” to distinguish him from actual reporters.īut none of these labels get at who Ngo is. The media don’t know what to make of Andy Ngo.

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