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Antifa attack conservative blogger Andy Ngo amid violence at Portland Proud Boys protest
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I'll link to two tweets below in a spoiler tag for anyone who wants to see footage of the attack and the journalist's recorded reaction shortly after. It's not "too" graphic but I'm not quite sure what the limits are when it comes to posting violent footage on this forum. Spoiler:
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Violence is never the answer. This behavior is disgusting.
The Proud Boys is a twisted organization for sure, however, attacking someone is not okay under any circumstance. |
It’s almost as if a guy (he is not a journalist, lmao) that has built his career on peddling bigotry about Muslims and acting as a bad faith mouthpiece for fascist causes knew what he was doing when he deliberately drew focus from anti-fascist participants in America’s longest running street brawl - almost as if he knows how to propagate far-right ideology through getting his ass beat, almost as if he is friends with and a close professional associate of Joey Gibson, a man who is known to advise Portland police how to frame conflict in favour of white supremacists. And that’s all I’ll say on that.
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As others have said I have to echo in that violence is not the answer be it a crowbar or a milkshake with cement. Hopefully this will spur cops across the nation to crack down on these Alt Right and Alt Left protests. |
Let's not attempt to justify violence. Politics aside, violence is unacceptable. If you disagree with someone and their ideology, there are other ways to discuss things civilly. Harming another individual is unwarranted and unnecessary, I don't care how much you disagree with them.
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Also thought it is worth mentioning that Mr. Nao was not the only one who was attacked, two others: John Blum and Adam Kelly were mobbed and beaten for attending a “him too” protest nearby the ANTIFA rally. Apparently the protest was to raise awareness for sexual assault against men ( Although I confess, I have no idea if this is their true purpose or just an anti feminist movement, as I am just now really hearing about them) Anyway I won’t link to the article because the pictures are pretty graphic but if you want to learn more just google the names.
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Proving yet again, that antifa are fascist thugs. Agree with them in all things or get beaten and have chemicals thrown on you.
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I usually prefer it that change and progress come from more peaceful methods. But some days though....some days it just feels like no amount of civil discourse will do anything and the only way to get anything done is through force.
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People who say violence is never the answer need to have a long hard look at the Second World War.
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And as for John Blum, he turned up to the AntiFa crowd brandishing a telescoping baton and went for them. He instigated the incident.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-eXcf7WsAAL7xy.jpg of course, right wing media has only shown the tail end of the footage in an attempt to pretend this was a vicious assault on an innocent, sweet old man and not someone responding to Santa Klaus here rushing people with a baton. |
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https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2019/07/witness-says-bloody-attacks-in-portland-broke-out-after-one-man-came-to-his-aid.html The antifa are trying to spin it to make themselves look better. Antifa are domestic terrorists using violence for their political goals. |
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Only, we know, from you know, photographic and video evidence, that this isn't what happened at all. Blum had his baton out, approached people with it. Resnick describes an event that we know did not happen that way. In fact your own article cites these very videos and images that show Blum approaching people he was not previously engaged with whilst brandishing a weapon. We don't have any footage of the fictional account of Resnick, where Blum was apparently beaten without any physical moves from himself, what we do have is video and photographic images disputing this and even other witnesses. Hell, in the cropped video the right are choosing to push you can even see black bloc members trying to separate the fight. So let's break it down One witness who describes an event we know did not happen Several witnesses, videos and photos showing an event that did actually happen Which one is the truth? |
Violence is the last resort, not the first (outside specific, my life or the lives of others is in danger right now!!, scenarios). Antifa starts with violence. They are the modern day Brownshirts.
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https://twitter.com/Johnnthelefty/status/1146236578110439424/video/1 Here, video proof that you're talking crap. Where's Resnick? Where's the unprovoked transphobic/homopohic assault that your boy was valiantly stepping in to stop? There was one man who had horrible injuries who was simply trying to defend someone, and that wasn't Blum, it was Adam Kelly, but the right can't sell Kelly as a defenseless old man so he's barely mentioned and instead of saying "Kelly was a victim" we're treated to an observably false story. We also know it was the Patriot Prayer boys who launched the first attack in the particular brawl that involved Kelly and Blum. They grabbed a boy from behind in a choke hold and tried to drag him off, that's when the Black bloc boys started fighting them. Again, unlike your claims, we have this on video. |
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https://twitter.com/Johnnthelefty John has collected as much footage from the day as he can, there's a coherent timeline both of patriot prayers antagonizing people and the violence as it erupts. This isn't the whole event, there were several broken up groups present, but this is the most comprehensive collection of footage from the Blum incident and it mostly corroborates what people on the ground who aren't right wing instigators said. I'll dig more angles up if you'd like. The difference here of course is that these aren't cropped, they're raw snippets recorded by bystanders and other protesters as and when things heated up. The one the right wing media has been pushing is heavily cropped and has the benefit of the media circus following the bloodied man. |
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It’s in the antifa’s interests to lie about what started the fight. Why would this guy claim that Blum was helping him when the fighting started? All the people trying to claim Blum started it are Antifa. The same people attacking others with chains and cement milk shakes. They have zero credibility. Why would Blum, an older man attack a freaking mob of masked thugs without reason? Where’s the video from the antifa showing this “unprovoked” attack? They just happened to not be recording? |
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1145864149588561921
again, no man in a dress, but Blum's there, baton out, before any violence took place. A young man (I can't say for sure if he's AntiFa or just one of the hundreds of normal people who turned out to protest the right wing actual Fascists) even tries to deescalate the situation. |
Right so I’m gonna have to ask all involved to step back and breathe before continuing. I respect the inherent emotions in a topic about physical retribution on political grounds, but I don’t think we need the same old tensions flaring up. Argue, but constructively.
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https://twitter.com/Johnnthelefty/status/1145552739742519296 He or She, is wearing a hat, black backpack, and running across the crosswalk at the 5 second mark. Quote:
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That's actually the incident where a Patriot Prayer member tries to drag away a protester from the safety of a group. Blum isn't in frame here, he's actually closer to the center of the group and no one is attacking the person you refer to, who I'm not sure is Resnick as Resnick was wearing a long blond wig on the day and the person you're highlighting looks to be wearing a tan hat and running to cut off the Patriot Prayer bloke dragging the protester. It may be Resnick, but from their own youtube and twitter feeds they were in a distinctive wig and riling people up, and the person in the video does not appear to have the wig, does not appear to at any point be near Blum, does not appear in any of the footage with Blum and does not appear to ever be attacked at any point. So even if it is Resnick and at some point they had changed their outfit, it still doesn't do anything to corroborate a story that all video footage on the day points to being false. Nothing on the footage of Blum with his baton out in the calm where someone tried to talk him out of, you know, brandishing a weapon and antagonising people? |
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