"Also, I didn’t see any reason to believe the accused was an antifa activist or that the incident had anything to do with antifa. Am I missing something? Is there any chance that Mr NGO was filming Mr Hacker because of the appearance of. His face (what appears to be burn scars)? "

Yes, you are missing everything and no there is no chance that what you suggest was the problem. Its his mugshot, they all look like that because once you remove their protective gear they all look like starved zombies and act in similar fashion. Don't you know anything at all about Antifa. Haven't you seen anything Andy has been sharing and writing about for years now ?

You really should follow Andy Ngo because if that is your stance, prepare to be conquered. Apparently you have no understanding of your enemy. And it is your enemy, weather you want to or not.

There are weekly updates, and endless police reports on Antifa as shared by Andy Ngo on weekly and daily basis. If you think this is not a corrupt judge in a lawless ideological nut house they call Portland and that Andy is just making this stuff up, you have serious catching up to do. I mean serious.

The case has been on going for couple of years, this is a small fraction of the outcome of the verdict by a corrupt judge. Do some do diligence and you will find out more.

As I've posted bellow in a response.

Portland is a nut house, full of useful idiots that act as foot-soldiers for the establishment. The brown-shirts. The SA of America. Just like BLM way. "we are trained Marxists" the so called co-founder said.

“The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.” ― Ludwig Von Mises

“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies. That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point: never bother with leftists. Forget about these political prostitutes. Aim higher. [...] They serve a purpose only at the stage of destabilization of a nation. For example, your leftists in the United States: all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders. They are instrumental in the process of the subversion only to destabilize a nation. When their job is completed, they are not needed any more. They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist-Leninists come to power—obviously they get offended—they think that they will come to power. That will never happen, of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot.” ― Yuri Bezmenov

Yuri Bezmenov Explaining 4 Stages to Bring Down a Country

Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Безме́нов; December 11, 1939 – January 5, 1993; alias: Tomas David Schuman[1]) was a Soviet journalist for Novosti Press Agency (APN) and a former PGU KGB informant who defected to Canada.

After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to love the people and the culture of India. At the same time, he began to resent the KGB-sanctioned repression of intellectuals who dissented from Moscow's policies and he decided to defect to the West. Bezmenov is best remembered for his anti-communist lectures and books published in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s.
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Antifa History and Tactics Andy Ngo

May 12, 2021 Andy Ngo - Author, Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

This speech was given at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Franklin, TN.

...yeah, in that place only social justice seems to be pushed.

@Krunoslav I hear about it every week when I call my mom. They never go into the city anymore, but the crime has crossed the river into Vancouver, which is more conservative.

@DMcCreery1956 Sad state of affairs.

Millennials and younger actually believe that Antifa is fighting for American fascists.

@Frthough Exactly. They are dangerous True Believers.