pjmedia.com Earlier today, PJ Media reported that Portland police arrested independent journalist Nick Sortor outside an ICE facility. Sortor was reportedly joking with officers when he was suddenly handcuffed and taken into custody. Sortor has now been released and has spoken publicly about the incident, offering his firsthand account of what happened.
Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reported Friday afternoon on Sortor’s arrest, saying that he had spoken to Sortor just minutes after his release from jail.
Melugin explained that Sortor told him he had been filming protesters the night before when federal agents hit them with mace. According to Sortor, the protesters didn’t appreciate his recording them in that vulnerable moment. “It was a little embarrassing for the protestors ’cause they were shrieking and crying about having the mace in their eyes, so they didn’t like being recorded,” Sortor said.
Things escalated quickly. Melugin continued, “They kind of chased him down the street a little bit then surrounded him and pushed him down into a flower bed. He says they then punched and assaulted him and he tried to defend himself.”
Sortor described the incident in his own words: “So, they, they threw pu— multiple punches at me. Uh, they broke my, uh, camera by hitting that, so I was on the ground at that point. I tried to swing. I missed. I saw the opportunity to get up and get away, and that’s when I went over to the police officers, which I thought, you know, maybe they’d help me.”
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