{"id":2494317,"date":"2025-10-03T14:36:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/portland-police-let-antifa-militants-go-while-arresting-journalists\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T14:36:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:36:55","slug":"portland-police-let-antifa-militants-go-while-arresting-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/portland-police-let-antifa-militants-go-while-arresting-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Police Let Antifa Militants Go While Arresting Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fportland-police-let-antifa-militants-go-while-arresting-journalists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2494317&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The report highlights a pattern of Portland Police arresting victims of Antifa and journalists covering Antifa activities, as revealed by Fox News reporter bill Melugin. Self-reliant journalist Nick Sortor was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct after being attacked by Antifa militants for filming unflattering videos of them. Despite threats and assaults from protesters, police appear reluctant to intervene, as illustrated by reporter Katie Daviscourt&#8217;s experience of being assaulted by a protester while police failed to make arrests. Portland police instead focused on investigating federal agents after a protester was maced, rather than addressing violence at protests. Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered a full examination into Sortor&#8217;s arrest. The White house indicated plans to send additional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-mayor-congress-must-open-a-probe-into-security-failures-at-u-s-capitol\/\" title=\"D.C. Mayor: Congress must open a probe into security failures at U.S. Capitol\">federal law enforcement<\/a> to Portland and consider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-sen-murphy-suggests-withholding-federal-funds-for-police-from-states-that-dont-enforce-all-gun-control-laws\/\" title=\"Dem Sen. Murphy Suggests Withholding Federal Funds for ... From States That Don&#039;t Enforce All Gun Control Laws\">withholding federal funds<\/a> if the city does not improve crime control. the coverage suggests a problematic policing approach toward Antifa-related incidents and journalists documenting them in Portland.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Arresting victims of Antifa and journalists who report on Antifa&rsquo;s behavior seems to be a pattern for the Portland Police, according to reporting by Fox News&rsquo;s Bill Melugin. <\/p>\n<p>Independent journalist Nick Sortor says Portland Police arrested him Thursday night on a charge of &ldquo;disorderly conduct&rdquo; after Antifa militants surrounded and attacked him for taking unflattering videos of them. Antifa is a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >leftist domestic terrorist group<\/a> that amped up its activities in the United States with the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>BREAKING: Just spoke on the phone with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicksortor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nicksortor<\/a> after he was released from custody. He tells me he&rsquo;s been charged with disorderly conduct. I asked what happened?<\/p>\n<p>He says he was getting video of protesters getting maced by federal agents, which was embarrassing video for them&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillMelugin_\/status\/1974095966346367011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Friday morning, the Portland Police released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portland.gov\/police\/news\/2025\/10\/2\/update-suspects-arrested-fighting-ice-protest-identified\">statement<\/a> about the arrest that gives no details about the altercation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At about 11:16 p.m.,[the[the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.portland.gov\/police\/rrt\">Rapid Response Team<\/a>]moved in and arrested three people were arrested (sic) and all booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center (MCDC) on charges of Disorderly Conduct in the Second Degree:<\/p>\n<p>Angela Davis, 49, of Vernonia, Oregon<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Sortor, 27, of Washington, DC<\/p>\n<p>Son Mi Yi, 43, of Portland<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The morning of Oct. 3, Melugin also posted a video of a female protester wailing after federal agents maced her. Melugin says Portland Police then took witness statements to &ldquo;investigat[e] potential wrongdoing by the federal agent&rdquo; rather than targeting the protester  at federal facilities that have been under violent attack for the last five years.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: We witnessed this female protester get maced in the face by a federal agent in front of the Portland ICE building last night. She was yelling, but we didn&rsquo;t see anything physical. We then saw Portland PD liaisons collecting video of the incident from witnesses afterwards,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nhVu7vHfvq\">pic.twitter.com\/nhVu7vHfvq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillMelugin_\/status\/1974120816276332723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Earlier in the evening of Oct. 2, Melugin&rsquo;s crew recorded Sortor taking a flaming U.S. flag from a protester&rsquo;s hands and stomping out the flames while onlookers taunted him.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Last night at the Portland ICE building, we witnessed anti-ICE protesters burning an American flag. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicksortor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nicksortor<\/a> then grabbed it from them, put the flames out, and took away what was left of the flag. Nick was arrested later in the night by Portland PD after videos appear to&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tQVjEEkLRw\">pic.twitter.com\/tQVjEEkLRw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillMelugin_\/status\/1974088103829926100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Protesters became agitated when Sortor was recording them on a public street, threatening violence in retaliation for his reporting. Melugin noted that police observed the threats from across the street and did not intervene.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Verbal scuffles on the verge of getting physical here at the ICE building in Portland, as protesters yell at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicksortor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nicksortor<\/a> to not record them in public, which he tells them he has every right to do. A man then approaches and threatens physical violence to Nick. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IpwI2NIclg\">pic.twitter.com\/IpwI2NIclg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillMelugin_\/status\/1973605200616411637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Friday morning, Sortor reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi called him to say she had ordered an investigation into the <a>Portland Police Bureau <\/a>over his arrest.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>&#128680; BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi has ORDERED a full investigation, led by Asst. AG Harmeet Dhillon, of the Portland Police Bureau, following my wrongful arrest last night, Bondi confirmed to me.<\/p>\n<p>FAFO, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PortlandPolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PortlandPolice<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGPamBondi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AGPamBondi<\/a> personally called me to deliver this&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DBdp9vl5Ka\">pic.twitter.com\/DBdp9vl5Ka<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicksortor\/status\/1974121124968739069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Earlier this week, Post Millennial reporter Katie Daviscourt got a black eye reporting in Portland after a protester whacked her in the face with a flagpole. The police response was pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>After being injured, Daviscourt kept recording. No police immediately intervened as the protesters continued shouting and swinging flag poles. Near her, a man grabbed a Palestinian flag out of the hand of a protester. A small crowd surrounded him, whacked him, poked him with sticks, threw water on him, and put a stick in his face, using it to flip off his hat, even after he gave the flag back. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: I just got assaulted by an Antifa agitator outside the ICE facility in Portland.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect walked up to me and hit me in the face with her flag pole, swinging it like a baseball bat. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BFi39Ym8R6\">pic.twitter.com\/BFi39Ym8R6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Katie Daviscourt \ud83d\udcf8 (@KatieDaviscourt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatieDaviscourt\/status\/1973241441834115509?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Daviscourt followed the masked female who assaulted her and got the attention of a uniformed Portland Police &ldquo;Liaison Officer,&rdquo; asking him to arrest her. The officer, wearing a bullet-proof vest and a bunch of police gear strapped to his waist and leg, calmly walked behind the suspect on the sidewalk, and eventually caught up to her. For a moment, he put his hand on her large, heavy backpack.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The suspect is attempting to escape. I AM CHASING HER DOWN. I grabbed a Portland Police officer and he attempted to detain the suspect, but completely failed.<\/p>\n<p>So I am persisting. The suspect is now seeking refuge in the Antifa tent encampment occupation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ARmg3snwbK\">pic.twitter.com\/ARmg3snwbK<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Katie Daviscourt &#128248; (@KatieDaviscourt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatieDaviscourt\/status\/1973248932705870009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Do not touch me! I am underage!&rdquo; the still-masked attacker claimed. So the police officer removed his hand and gave up. <\/p>\n<p>The suspect and a masked friend then quickly walked away, as the Portland officer stood empty handed, in the middle of the street, then turned his back. Portland police put out a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.portland.gov\/police\/news\/2025\/10\/1\/ppb-needs-publics-help-identifying-assault-suspect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>&nbsp;saying this was a &ldquo;Dialogue Liaison Officer&rdquo; who cannot get involved in enforcement action, but that he did follow the suspect and tell her to stop and that she was being detained. <\/p>\n<p>She did not obey, so he called for additional resources, the statement said. Police have released photos of the women involved and have asked the public for help identifying them. But he did not follow them, help never came, and it is notable that police are not looking for the people in the video who assaulted the man who had his hat removed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Daviscourt followed the two for several blocks. They ultimately stopped at a trash-strewn tent where at least three members of the Antifa <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/01\/this-well-funded-legal-org-works-to-protect-antifa-terrorist-cells-from-prosecution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Lawyers Guild <\/a>stood, identifiable by their florescent green hats. The tent also had coolers and grills for cooking on the street. <\/p>\n<p>Quickly, people in the tent opened umbrellas to block the view and shone a bright light at Daviscourt. That night, she had to act as her own police officer, injured and collecting evidence that will almost certainly lead to no arrest.<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned Sortor&rsquo;s arrest in Friday&rsquo;s press briefing. She said President Trump will send more federal law enforcement to Portland and is exploring where the government may cut federal funds to the city if it does not cooperate with the effort to get crime under control.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland Police arrest victims, reporters covering Antifa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":2494320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Nic-Flag.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,33651],"tags":[3802,4283,5313,3967,3619],"class_list":["post-2494317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","category-the-western-journal","tag-antifa","tag-arrests","tag-journalists","tag-police","tag-portland"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Nic-Flag.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494322,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494317\/revisions\/2494322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2494320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}