A jury in Portland found the Antifa members who assaulted Andy Ngo not liable in the civil lawsuit brought by Ngo.

This was after the defense attorney for these Antifa members admitted in the court that she is Antifa and defended the organization as a necessary resistance.

They’ve got a long article at TPM so feel free to read it there. I’m gonna give you the short version here:

The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of investigative journalist Andy Ngo v. Rose City Antifa and its alleged affiliated members, in which they found both defendants John Colin Hacker and Elizabeth Renee Richter not liable in the civil case brought against them.

Ngo filed a complaint in Portland, Oregon in 2020, claiming assault and other injuries over alleged acts of violence carried out by members of Antifa, which began in 2019. Defandants John Colin Hacker and Elizabeth Renee Richter have been accused by Senior Editor of Post Millennial Andy Ngo of assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, which was argued before a civil jury for more than a week at the Multnomah County Courthouse.

Defendants Hacker and Richter, who allegedly work as Antifa’s “doxxers,” which after identifying Ngo had led to a series of physical beatings on May 28, 2021, were found by the jury on Tuesday not liable for all of these claims.

“I am Antifa”

During closing statements, defense lawyer Michelle Burrows told the jurors that not only does she self-identify as both a progressive and an “anti-fascist,” she strongly declared, “I am Antifa” and insisted upon making herself an “I am Antifa” t-shirt, which she said she would wear after the trial. Despite Antifa’s significant recorded history of violence, she told the jury that Antifa’s unfavorable reputation is untrue and depicted the organized militant group as activists fighting for social justice and civil rights.

In defense of Antifa, Burrows said, “Resistance in this country has never been peaceful.”

However, as she argued before the jurors, Ms. Burrows admitted that the”“black clad people” that had physically beaten Ngo were, in fact, “terrorists.”

The defense attorney went on to attack Andy NGO as a ‘doxxer’:

The defense attorney went on to say that journalist Andy Ngo has dirty hands. She indicated that Ngo is a “doxxer” as well because he uploads publicly available mugshots of Antifa-affiliated individuals that have committed crimes on his Twitter account, which has over one million followers.

In addition, the defense lawyer said that since the US has an “unregulated internet,” Ngo needs to “take responsibility” for the words he says on the internet, and added that his “conduct has not been pristine.” She also attacked Ngo’s credibility as a journalist despite providing the jury with no evidence of the allegations that would have discredited him, other than saying that he’s a “liar” that provides “half-truths.”

Furthermore, Burrows claimed that Ngo’s reporting has created a “rage machine that has generated so much revenue for Mr. Ngo.”

This defense attorney is a liar. It’s not doxxing if the mugshots and info are publicly available. But then what would you expect from a lawyer who claims to be Antifa. And it sucks that she won.