The Kyle Rittenhouse Copycats Have Arrived

[Nevilledog]

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eddie kim
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i wrote about the shooting of leftist volunteers in Portland, and why @MrAndyNgo has blood on his hands.

melmagazine.com
The Kyle Rittenhouse Copycats Have Arrived
A man obsessed with far-right conspiracies and the existential threat of ‘antifa’ shot five unarmed women at a recent anti-police march in Portland, killing one. His justification: He was just a...
8:57 AM · Mar 3, 2022

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/benjamin-smith-shooting-portland


The shooting happened before anyone really had a clue of what was going on.

It was the evening of Saturday, February 20th, when a group of protesters gathered near Normandale Park, located in a suburban area near East Portland, Oregon. They planned a march in honor of Amir Locke, a young Black man who was shot to death on his couch in Minneapolis in a controversial no-knock warrant raid.

Traveling ahead of the march were a few support vehicles and a handful of volunteers on foot, scanning the road to redirect traffic and alert people to police or other unwanted attention. Seemingly out of nowhere, they heard the yelling of Benjamin Smith, 43, who approached the group screaming about how they were “violent terrorists” and using misogynistic slurs.

One person told Smith to go home. Instead, he approached the group aggressively, and then claimed he would shoot anyone who came by his apartment about a block away, according to witnesses. Portland activist Brandy Knightly stepped in front to tell Smith that they weren’t going to be intimidated. In response, Smith pulled out a pistol, shot the 60-year-old Knightly in the head and sent bullets into four other people. Everyone Smith approached was unarmed, according to a survivor who was shot multiple times. Indeed, others could have been killed if it wasn’t for the armed protester who sprinted to the scene and put a bullet in Smith’s hip, critically wounding him.

The initial announcement of the tragedy from law enforcement framed it as an altercation between a “homeowner” and “armed protesters” with no political motive — a characterization that deeply upset the survivors of the shooting. It didn’t take long for evidence to spill forth that depicted Smith as an increasingly angry man who had grown intoxicated on his own fantasies of violence against leftists.

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[canuckledragger]

1. Police protecting their violent, racist supporters again

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Who is Andy Ngo and why are we expected to know who he is?

[Nevilledog]

3. If you follow RW extremism his name is very familiar.

He's a so-called journalist who promotes violence, focusing on imaginary Antifa.


Oh, and he got hit by a dildo

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. So there is blood on Ngo's hands because he was hit with a dildo?

I don't get it.

But thanks for placing him. Name seemed vaguely familiar, but even though I read some RW, I couldn't place it and still can't remember what he's supposed to have done that I'm supposed to remember.

[Nevilledog]

8. No, he a ridiculous person cuz he blamed Antifa for it.

He really is responsible for very violent rhetoric against Antifa & BLM.




This article shows the results of him advocating violence and his followers acting on it.

[NCjack]

10. Perhaps what looks like a dildo was a functioning penis on Andy's forehead

and he ripped it off during the excitement of believing that Antifa protesters were near him.

[Demovictory9]

4. That part confused me too

[Initech]

5. Andy Ngo is to journalism what a pile of shit is to horse manure.

[Nevilledog]

7. He has dangerous followers

[viva la]

9. completely irrelevant coincidence--- Another racist murderer named Ben Smith

You might remember this-- he killed the beloved Northwestern University (Chicago area) basketbally course, Ricky Byrdsong in 1999-- shot him in front of his little children.

THAT Smith had already killed others that weekend:
In a weekend Midwest killing spree, Smith also fatally shot Won-Joon Yoon, a Korean student at Indiana University, and wounded six Orthodox Jews, three African-American men and a Taiwanese man.

He was a member of a white nationalist group, founded by the evil Matthew Hale.

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2019/08/07/white-nationalist-killed-ricky-byrdsong-20-years-ago-friend-remembers/1922663001/