Epoch Times - How Andy Ngo Was Almost Killed by Antifa
Aired: 2025-10-18
Duration: 08:10


=== Near-Death Encounter (07:30) ===

[00:00:01]  I had never had that type of feeling of dread before.
[00:00:05]  And I was just wishing and praying in my head that law enforcement were nearby or undercover or around the corner.
[00:00:14]  I'll see a police car, something, please.
[00:00:18]  And I kept walking and I, it was dark.
[00:00:20]  This was 10 p.m. on a Friday night.
[00:00:23]  So the shadows are casted long from the light lamps.
[00:00:26]  And I could see as I was walking away, trying to remain calm.
[00:00:31]  I was still in black block, covered up, masked, my eyes were covered.
[00:00:35]  I could see the shadows of the group behind me.
[00:00:37]  They were pursuing me.
[00:00:42]  Every business was basically closed.
[00:00:44]  This was a year after the riots that ravaged downtown.
[00:00:49]  I mean, that finished off any businesses that weren't finished off from COVID already.
[00:00:54]  The hotel that was open that I went to, the front doors were locked.
[00:01:00]  Vagrancy had become such a big problem at that point that the hotels in downtown didn't unlock their doors.
[00:01:09]  So the person at the front desk didn't open it for me.
[00:01:15]  And the group caught up.
[00:01:16]  And in one swoop, one of them grabbed at my head and pulled off the sunglasses that I had.
[00:01:26]  The ski goggles, actually, and the balaclava.
[00:01:30]  And I was completely exposed.
[00:01:32]  And I took off running.
[00:01:33]  And this video I have shared.
[00:01:36]  It's compiled from multiple surveillance cameras in the city.
[00:01:41]  And you can see me running for my life.
[00:01:42]  I never ran that fast before.
[00:01:44]  I didn't know I could run that fast.
[00:01:45]  And I'm running through downtown, sprinting, screaming for help.
[00:01:52]  And nobody helped.
[00:01:53]  There were people walking around.
[00:01:55]  This was a Friday night, 10 p.m.
[00:01:56]  It's not that late.
[00:01:59]  Cars were in the middle of the road.
[00:02:01]  I ran in the middle of the cars in the streets at the red light, pounding on like windows and cars, asking for help.
[00:02:10]  And when the light turned green, they drove off.
[00:02:12]  And you can see in the video that the group caught up to me and they tackled me to the ground.
[00:02:20]  In that, my weight plus the weight of the person on top of me just shredded the skin on my leg.
[00:02:30]  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.
[00:02:38]  And then that person held me in a chokehold really hard.
[00:02:43]  And it was seconds in the video.
[00:02:45]  It felt much longer in my mind.
[00:02:47]  Maybe from lack of oxygen, I'm not sure.
[00:02:50]  But that was my one near-death experience.
[00:02:54]  And I was just thinking about, I was thinking about my family and those I cared and loved.
[00:02:58]  It was like flashing out almost like almost how you would see it maybe in a film.
[00:03:04]  Like one person after another.
[00:03:06]  And I was like, I'm so sorry that I let you down, that I go out this way.
[00:03:12]  You know, and I could hear like the rest of the anti-film mob catch up.
[00:03:16]  They were running because I sprinted really fast.
[00:03:18]  So they were just catching up.
[00:03:20]  I knew if I go unconscious and I'm unconscious on the ground there, that group will kill me.
[00:03:27]  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.
[00:03:36]  They wanted me dead.
[00:03:39]  And before I passed out from being choked, some journalists ran up.
[00:03:44]  They caught up with the group.
[00:03:46]  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.
[00:03:58]  I was able to get out of that chokehold and I ran to the next thing I saw, which was the Nines Hotel.
[00:04:04]  And the door I saw was open.
[00:04:06]  So I just ran in and I was like a madman, barely had my breath.
[00:04:12]  I was just trying to say the words, call police, call police, call police.
[00:04:16]  That's all I could say.
[00:04:17]  And the staff inside the hotel tried to kick me out to the street.
[00:04:22]  And when they said you have to get up, I said no.
[00:04:26]  And I sat on the ground.
[00:04:29]  The only way they were going to get me out was they would have had to carry me out.
[00:04:32]  I was not going to go back out there because the mob now were amassing outside this hotel, trying to get in.
[00:04:39]  And the hotel staff refused to call police.
[00:04:43]  And they said, you need to wear a mask.
[00:04:46]  They actually pulled out from their drawer a black COVID mask and said, you need to put this now on.
[00:04:51]  So I'm bloody.
[00:04:53]  I'm out of breath.
[00:04:54]  I'm screaming.
[00:04:55]  Call police.
[00:04:57]  I was so lucky.
[00:04:58]  I looked on my body.
[00:04:59]  I had my phone still.
[00:05:01]  I thought that it fell out of my pocket when I was tackling on the ground.
[00:05:04]  I still had it.
[00:05:05]  So I used that to call 911.
[00:05:09]  And the mob gathered outside the hotel were pounding on the windows, trying to break in.
[00:05:14]  Nazi, stop!
[00:05:17]  You see my face, Andy?
[00:05:19]  Andy!
[00:05:20]  You see that face?
[00:05:22]  You see?
[00:05:58]  If I didn't escape that area and they got in, they would have finished what they were trying to do.
[00:06:05]  And so there was a hotel guest who was going up the elevator.
[00:06:10]  He was like, I'm getting the hell out of here.
[00:06:11]  There's like this mob outside.
[00:06:12]  And I ran in after him.
[00:06:14]  And I said, please let me go up with you.
[00:06:16]  It was one of those hotel lifts where it requires a car to go up.
[00:06:20]  So I couldn't just push numbers.
[00:06:22]  He said, okay.
[00:06:23]  I went up and I hid in the hotel.
[00:06:28]  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.
[00:06:37]  So the mob wasn't by there.
[00:06:40]  There was an ambulance there.
[00:06:41]  There was a police car by ambulance.
[00:06:42]  And then the police escort behind took me to the hospital, the same hospital that I was treated two years earlier.
[00:06:49]  And in there, I saw online in real time all the ANSIFA accounts because they were live streaming outside the hotel.
[00:06:57]  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.
[00:07:06]  And she was threatening me.
[00:07:10]  And so they knew I left in an ambulance and they were trying to find out which hospital.
[00:07:14]  So I very narrowly escaped that.

=== Leaving the U.S. Behind (00:54) ===

[00:07:18]  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.
[00:07:26]  And the death threats continued.
[00:07:31]  Nobody was ever arrested over the assault I just described or the 2019 one or any of the death threats.
[00:07:42]  And I couldn't stay in the U.S. anymore.
[00:07:48]  I was on borrowed time.
[00:07:51]  You know, even when I traveled to other places, I had been recognized before by hostile people.
[00:07:58]  So I couldn't live in hiding anymore and it pained me a lot to leave the country that my parents found refuge in.
[00:08:08]  It was a very weird thought in my mind.