# Quote — Andy Ngo, Unmasked

> Responding police cruisers had their tires slashed by rioters who dumped nail-filled pool noodles on the street… the night before, rioters tried to break into the Portland Police East Precinct. Two elderly women who lived nearby tried to stop the mob from setting fire to the building. As one of them used an extinguisher to put out a fire, she was screamed at and harassed. The mob then hurled paint at them. One woman had it thrown in her face and eyes.

- Author: [Andy Ngo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-ngo.md)
- Book: [Unmasked](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-ngo/unmasked.md)
- Page: 70
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andy_Ngo#Unmasked:_Inside_Antifa%E2%80%99s_Radical_Plan_to_Destroy_Democracy_(2021)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-ngo/unmasked/responding-police-cruisers

## More from this book

> Every use of force by officers, whether it be tear gas, smoke, pepper balls, or arrests, was heavily scrutinized. Out-of-context video snippets were released on social media and published by news outlets, generating mass rage and universally negative press for law enforcement and the Trump administration. The officers were called ‘Trump’s gestapo,’ ‘storm troopers,’ and ‘thugs’ by Democratic politicians and the media.

p. 63 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-ngo/unmasked/every-use-of-force.md)

> Despite what was happening before our eyes, left-wing politicians and media denied antifa played a role. House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) called the movement ‘imagery’ during a congressional debate. And even though the public could plainly see masked militants openly planning and carrying out riot operations, we were still told there is ‘no evidence’ of organized antifa. ‘Who caused the violence at protests? It wasn’t antifa,’ declared one gaslighting Washington Post ‘fact-checker’ analysis, for example.

p. 5 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-ngo/unmasked/despite-what-was.md)

> One glaring blind spot in the mainstream media coverage of CHAZ was how the space gave platform to violent extremist ideologies. Reports about CHAZ’s political agenda focused shallowly on ‘racial justice’ and ‘defunding the police’ rather than its explicit calls to kill cops and overthrow the government. Hundreds of graffiti messages and images lined the zone showing dead pigs wearing police hats.

p. 39 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-ngo/unmasked/one-glaring-blind.md)