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Jury Intimidation

2023-08-09

The Post Millennial tweeted video of the attacks — the tweets can be seen at the link.

[Townhall] At the conclusion of journalist Andy Ngo's multi-day civil trial against Rose City Antifa, whose far-left militant members brutally beat the investigative reporter when he went undercover to expose Antifa's extremist activities on the riot-torn streets of Portland, a 12-person jury reached a verdict in the case Tuesday evening, reportedly finding both of the defendants not liable for all claims.

The Post Millennial's senior editor—represented by attorney Harmeet Dhillon's nonprofit Center for American Liberty—sought almost $1 million in damages in a lawsuit accusing the co-defendants of assault, battery, theft, and intentional infliction of emotional distress over a series of violent Antifa attacks beginning in 2019, when Ngo was hospitalized for a brain hemorrhage.

In 2020, Andy Ngo filed a lawsuit in Portland, Oregon claiming assault and other injuries by alleged members of Antifa.

These violent attacks were caught on camera/video.

In closing statements, defense counsel Michelle Burrows told the jurors that not only does she self-identify as an "anti-fascist," she strongly declared, "I am Antifa," and insisted upon making herself an "I am Antifa" t-shirt, which the activist attorney said she would wear after the trial. In spite of Antifa's well-documented history of violence, Burrows told the jury that Antifa's unfavorable reputation is untrue and depicted the organized militants as activists fighting for social justice and civil rights. "Resistance in this country has never been peaceful," Burrows argued in defense of Antifa, admitting that Ngo's tormenters were, in fact, "terrorists."

Rather than taking the time to provide evidence as to why the defendants should be free of liability, Burrow instead defended anti-fascism and attacked Ngo's credibility as a journalist. Burrows also told jurrors that she "will remember each one of their faces."

Before jury deliberation commenced, Judge Chanpone Sinlapasai announced that the jurors have raised safety concerns about being "doxxed" and claimed that people have been trying to identify them, according to a Post Millennial report by Seattle-based correspondent Katie Daviscourt. Prior to the trial's conclusion, Sinlapasai issued court orders banning the public and non-credentialed press from the courtroom for the duration of Ngo's jury trial as it was underway in Multnomah County Circuit Court. The judge's decision was made due to multiple in-court disruptions since the trial began on July 31 as well as security issues.

Ngo's legal team had hoped the landmark case would hold lawless Antifa extremists accountable. Dhillon, alongside Ngo's fellow journalists and supporters, took to Twitter to weigh in on the jury's decision, expressing widespread outrage over the outcome:

On the highly anticipated trial's penultimate day, the court had ruled in the defense's favor when it came to witness testimony.

Attempting to undermine Ngo's reputation, the defense called controversial Portland State University professor Alexander Reid Ross, who proudly identifies as Antifa, to the stand Monday as a so-called "expert" on "far-right" media, which he claimed includes Ngo, whom he smeared as a "rage inducer" and "provocateur" without evidence to back his defamatory statements.

Although Ngo's team objected to Ross being a witness on the basis of relevancy, the judge overruled the objection.

A fellow of the Centre for Radical Right Analysis, Ross's work has appeared in left-wing mainstream outlets such as VICE, The Washington Post, and The Daily Beast, where his writings feature favorable coverage of Antifa. Ngo's counsel revealed during cross-examination that Ross's reporting is allegedly too extreme even for the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center, which had retracted an article by Ross after he had falsley identified individuals as white nationalists, white supremacists, and anti-Semites.

In mid-July, the court granted an order of default against co-defendants Jacob Christian Evans, Madison Lee Allen, and Corbyn/Katherine Belyea, who were also named in Ngo's lawsuit. The judge will likely decide liability for damages post-trial.

Evans, whose legal name was changed amid pending litigation to Sammica Overkill Schott-Deputy (an anti-police statement meaning "shot deputy") and whose gender legally became "non-binary," arrived at the courthouse Monday despite being found in default, which excluded the defendant from the jury trial. The repeat arrestee with a violent criminal past across several counties has attested to "undergoing surgical, hormonal, or other appropriate treatment for the purpose of affirming gender identity.”

Earlier last month, Rose City Antifa was dismissed from Ngo's lawsuit on grounds that it's "not a discreet entity under common law" and therefore cannot be sued nor served as an unassociated identity. Though, the individual defendants were still suable.

Posted by:Deacon Blues

#6 It’s Portland; it’s not jury intimidation, the jury would vote against Ngo on general principles. Just like DC or NYC jurors will do with Trump.

Posted by: Glenmore 2023-08-09 21:57

#5 Antifa's Stakhanovite workers
Make overtime shitting on shirkers
As clerisy, gov,
And the press we all love
Stamp out counterfeit Nazi berserkers.

[1929-D Obama dollar]

Posted by: Fester Flomorong3502 2023-08-09 21:16

#4 I've been to Medford and Grant's pass. The residents of eastern and southern Oregon don't want to be part of Oregon any more.

Posted by: Deacon Blues 2023-08-09 16:43

#3 ^ Portland does. I have relatives in Medford and Grants Pass that don't

Posted by: Frank G 2023-08-09 16:07

#2 Oregon is a lost state. They love this stuff.

Posted by: 49 Pan 2023-08-09 14:58

#1 Utter contempt for the law, ANTIFA trashed the car of the journalist supporting Ngo in testimony, while she was in court where she was also threatened. This is blatant display of how lawless Portland has become. The defense attorney "told jurrors that she "will remember each one of their faces." This is shocking, even for Portland.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1689109334473457664

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-08-09 14:25

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