# Quote — Andy Ngo, Unmasked

> Within less than two weeks, there were nearly a hundred arson fires in and around downtown Portland. Despite the violence and vandalism, a federal judge temporarily banned the [Portland Police Bureau] PPB from using tear gas. The response from elected city officials was to deny the violence and praise the protests. After the first night of mass looting, arson, and violence, Mayor Wheeler tweeted: ‘We talked about agitation—yes even violent agitation and how it has historically occurred with purpose and resulted in change that has moved this country forward.’

- Author: [Andy Ngo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-ngo.md)
- Book: [Unmasked](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-ngo/unmasked.md)
- Page: 61
- 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/within-less-than

## 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)