(Epoch Times) Two Portland, Oregon activists were cleared of all civil liability on Aug. 8 in a lawsuit filed by investigative journalist Andy Ngo alleging attacks against him that began in 2019.

Following a weeklong trial, a Multnomah County jury made up of six men and six women cleared the activists, John Hacker and Elizabeth Richter; finding them not liable for assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Mr. Ngo claimed the two are alleged Antifa rioters who attacked him while he was working undercover at a Portland protest in 2021. Antifa is a far-left, anarcho-communist network deemed a “domestic terrorist group” by former President Donald Trump.

Michelle Burrows, an attorney for Ms. Richter, said Mr. Ngo had every right to sue his attackers but stressed that the assailants were dressed in all black and were never identified.

“He grabbed the faces that he saw that night and he sued them,” the attorney said, The Oregonian reports.

Mr. Ngo, who serves as the senior editor for the Post Millennial website, was attacked on May 28, 2021, while covering a rally marking the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death.