Portland paper Willamette Week published an article Wednesday on Andy Ngo, conflating his coverage of violent rioters with inciting violence upon them. One of the quoted subjects still maintains the claim that a man appeared at her mother's door with gun in-hand because of "Ngo's robust social media presence," but Portland police records found no evidence of a 911 call despite the news outlet's reporting.
30-year-old Black Lives Matter activist Ragina Joe-Marie Gray was charged with disorderly conduct in the second degree, resisting arrest, and interfering with an officer at an Aug. 7 riot when Antifa militants attacked the Portland Police east precinct. She was quickly bailed out.
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Almost two weeks later on Aug. 19, a man allegedly appeared on the doorstep of Gray's mother's eastside home.
"He was sweaty and nervous looking, and he asked for Ragina by name," Gray's mom, Lucinda Fisher, told WW. "He mentioned [Gray's] son, and I noticed he had a gun in his hand."
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Based on police records searching for the accusers' names and the dates of the altercation, no filed cases surfaced, a public information officer wrote to Ngo in an email.
Then Ngo directly contacted Peel with the discovery, informing her that authorities found no record of a police report nor a documented call in the computer-aided dispatch service.
"After you independently verify this, will you be submitting an update to your report?" Ngo volleyed.
Peel asked Ngo to forward his inquiry to her news editor, Aaron Mesh. Ngo noted that he even verified that Fisher's address is within the Portland Police Bureau's jurisdiction to ensure the alleged call was not sent to another department. A spokesperson for the Bureau of Emergency Communications also could not find any corroborating evidence.
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On Thursday evening, WW amended the baseless blunder that contradicted a key point of the report defending a handful of alleged criminals whose "lives have since been disrupted," because Ngo released their arrest information.
"After this story was published, readers questioned whether Lucinda Fisher had called police. On Sept. 17, The Portland Bureau of Emergency Communications, which fields calls to 911, told WW it can find no record of a call from Fisher or an associated number and address on Aug. 19. Gray and Fisher stand by their account and maintain that Fisher called police," the update read.
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https://thepostmillennial.com/progr...ndy-ngo-without-verifying-with-police-records
