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Oct. 18, 2025 - Epoch Times
08:10
How Andy Ngo Was Almost Killed by Antifa
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I had never had that type of feeling of dread before.
And I was just wishing and praying in my head that law enforcement were nearby or undercover or around the corner.
I'll see a police car, something, please.
And I kept walking and I, it was dark.
This was 10 p.m. on a Friday night.
So the shadows are casted long from the light lamps.
And I could see as I was walking away, trying to remain calm.
I was still in black block, covered up, masked, my eyes were covered.
I could see the shadows of the group behind me.
They were pursuing me.
Every business was basically closed.
This was a year after the riots that ravaged downtown.
I mean, that finished off any businesses that weren't finished off from COVID already.
The hotel that was open that I went to, the front doors were locked.
Vagrancy had become such a big problem at that point that the hotels in downtown didn't unlock their doors.
So the person at the front desk didn't open it for me.
And the group caught up.
And in one swoop, one of them grabbed at my head and pulled off the sunglasses that I had.
The ski goggles, actually, and the balaclava.
And I was completely exposed.
And I took off running.
And this video I have shared.
It's compiled from multiple surveillance cameras in the city.
And you can see me running for my life.
I never ran that fast before.
I didn't know I could run that fast.
And I'm running through downtown, sprinting, screaming for help.
And nobody helped.
There were people walking around.
This was a Friday night, 10 p.m.
It's not that late.
Cars were in the middle of the road.
I ran in the middle of the cars in the streets at the red light, pounding on like windows and cars, asking for help.
And when the light turned green, they drove off.
And you can see in the video that the group caught up to me and they tackled me to the ground.
In that, my weight plus the weight of the person on top of me just shredded the skin on my leg.
And then as I tried to get up, some other person ran up in black block and just kept punching me until I fell to the ground.
And then that person held me in a chokehold really hard.
And it was seconds in the video.
It felt much longer in my mind.
Maybe from lack of oxygen, I'm not sure.
But that was my one near-death experience.
And I was just thinking about, I was thinking about my family and those I cared and loved.
It was like flashing out almost like almost how you would see it maybe in a film.
Like one person after another.
And I was like, I'm so sorry that I let you down, that I go out this way.
You know, and I could hear like the rest of the anti-film mob catch up.
They were running because I sprinted really fast.
So they were just catching up.
I knew if I go unconscious and I'm unconscious on the ground there, that group will kill me.
They were wanting my blood for months from all the reporting I did in 2020, all the mugshots I released, all the names, all the charges.
They wanted me dead.
And before I passed out from being choked, some journalists ran up.
They caught up with the group.
And the person who was holding me in that chokehold, he held me so tight, by the way, that the blood vessels in my eyes burst.
I was able to get out of that chokehold and I ran to the next thing I saw, which was the Nines Hotel.
And the door I saw was open.
So I just ran in and I was like a madman, barely had my breath.
I was just trying to say the words, call police, call police, call police.
That's all I could say.
And the staff inside the hotel tried to kick me out to the street.
And when they said you have to get up, I said no.
And I sat on the ground.
The only way they were going to get me out was they would have had to carry me out.
I was not going to go back out there because the mob now were amassing outside this hotel, trying to get in.
And the hotel staff refused to call police.
And they said, you need to wear a mask.
They actually pulled out from their drawer a black COVID mask and said, you need to put this now on.
So I'm bloody.
I'm out of breath.
I'm screaming.
Call police.
I was so lucky.
I looked on my body.
I had my phone still.
I thought that it fell out of my pocket when I was tackling on the ground.
I still had it.
So I used that to call 911.
And the mob gathered outside the hotel were pounding on the windows, trying to break in.
Nazi, stop!
You see my face, Andy?
Andy!
You see that face?
You see?
If I didn't escape that area and they got in, they would have finished what they were trying to do.
And so there was a hotel guest who was going up the elevator.
He was like, I'm getting the hell out of here.
There's like this mob outside.
And I ran in after him.
And I said, please let me go up with you.
It was one of those hotel lifts where it requires a car to go up.
So I couldn't just push numbers.
He said, okay.
I went up and I hid in the hotel.
And eventually, finally, a Portland police officer came up to me, escorted me out through this back entrance exit that staff used for the hotel.
So the mob wasn't by there.
There was an ambulance there.
There was a police car by ambulance.
And then the police escort behind took me to the hospital, the same hospital that I was treated two years earlier.
And in there, I saw online in real time all the ANSIFA accounts because they were live streaming outside the hotel.
One of the ANSIFA members, she was, you could see in the video, Andy's in there, Andy's in there at Nines Hotel right now.
And she was threatening me.
And so they knew I left in an ambulance and they were trying to find out which hospital.
So I very narrowly escaped that.
I left Portland immediately the next day on a flight and went from safe house to safe house to safe house until I couldn't arrange where I would go next.
And the death threats continued.
Nobody was ever arrested over the assault I just described or the 2019 one or any of the death threats.
And I couldn't stay in the U.S. anymore.
I was on borrowed time.
You know, even when I traveled to other places, I had been recognized before by hostile people.
So I couldn't live in hiding anymore and it pained me a lot to leave the country that my parents found refuge in.
It was a very weird thought in my mind.
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