Portland Police Arrest Conservative Journalist Nick Sortor Outside ICE Facility, 'But None of the Domestic Terrorists'

Tim O'Brien-Opinion : Oct 3, 2025
PJ Media

Now, this morning, Portland Police have decided that the real threat to the community is conservative journalist Nick Sortor, so they arrested him. Let's see if any of those supposed free speech and First Amendment advocates come to Sortor's defense. The police literally handcuffed a journalist for doing his job, one that reporters have done time immemorial. Will the ACLU come to his defense?

(Portland, OR) — [PJMedia.com] Winning is messy. You didn't expect the woke Left to go down without a fight, did you? It seems that right now, Portland, Oregon, is Ground Zero for that fight, at least when it comes to combating one of America's largest and newly designated domestic terror organizations, Antifa. Our own Catherine Salgado covered the shutdown of the Antifa Defence Fund, illustrating that the violent black-clad leftist army is built on a house of cards: 

"The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund has suddenly suspended its operations and indicated that, while it presently operates within the United States, it is going to move operations overseas, asserting the president and his administration are 'fascists.' But the great point that ought to be hammered home is that Antifa must be a specific, organized movement with a detailed funding structure, or the fund would not suddenly be in panic over the president's designation of the group as a terrorist entity."

But anyone who's followed coverage of Portland almost continual rioting, especially when a Republican is in the White House, has noticed an odd but delicate dance that happens between the terrorists who clearly have run of the city and the uniformed police who almost seem like extras on a movie set, just to make it look like Portland isn't completely run by anarchists.

Watch HERE as this group of nerds who live on Ramen noodles can intimidate and push back the Portland Police. It's embarrassing for law enforcement everywhere. This happened less than a week ago. (Screengrab image: via X-The Post Millennial)

On Monday, President Trump ordered the federalized deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to Portland under his Title 10 authority and authorized them to use "full force, if necessary," to protect federal facilities and ICE sites.

This prompted the usual whining and complaining from Oregon politicians, including leftist Gov. Tina Kotek, who said Portland was doing "just fine." She and city leaders said the Trump administration was painting a fake view of Portland.

Our Victoria Taft reported on Wednesday that city leaders and politicians from around Portland were digging in. As Victoria said, "They love Antifa and unrest more than they love peace-loving, law-abiding citizens. So if you're not Antifa, you know whose side they're on... not yours."

To be sure, Antifa controls Portland's streets. David Marcus of Fox News travels the country, talking to everyday people and getting a sense of what life is like in America at street level. He went to Portland this week and says, "for more than 100 nights in a row, Antifa thugs have taken over the streets in front of a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility (ICE), hooting, hollering, and waving any flag that wasn't Old Glory... 

As dusk descended on Tuesday, it was clear they—not the hapless handful of police on hand—were in control. I later learned officers were told by their higher-ups not to engage the black-clad, masked radicals... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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