So Peaceful!

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An elderly man was brutally beaten by Antifa thugs wielding baseball bats in downtown Portland, Ore., over the weekend. Another man, a Good Samaritan who came to his defense, was cracked in the skull with a crowbar.

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Not too far away from that altercation journalist Andy Ngo was set upon by another gang of leftist savages. He was punched in the face and pummeled by violent kicks. Others in the crowd sprayed the defenseless journalist with milkshakes laced with quick-drying cement and caustic chemicals.

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"It was complete anarchy and lawlessness," Ngo told me during an interview on The Todd Starnes Radio Show.

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Ngo, an editor and photojournalist for the online website Quillette, was attacked in front of the Oregon Justice Center - which houses the sheriff's office and a police precinct.

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And yet, Ngo said there were no law enforcement officers anywhere near the attack - leading many to speculate that police officers had been given an order to stand down and not stop the Antifa thugs.

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Mayor Ted Wheeler's office will not comment on the accusations, but Ngo's attorney said there is no doubt in her mind that such an order was given.

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"The mayor is a weak coward for what he did here," Harmeet Dhillon said on my radio show, calling the attack on her client a "shocking civil rights violation."

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"The outcome here is a direct result of a command and control structure that tells the police to not do their job so that people can run wild in the streets of Portland," she said. "Allowing these thugs to conspire to prevent a journalist from doing his job and to injure him and to try to scare others is a civil rights violation."

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Romans 8;18-32 John 3;16-18