Also, this is laughable. Sortor went after that burning flag because 'Merica!
It was a social clout thing, not a safety thing. He presented the flag to Trump at the silly Antifa roundtable and promised his royal highness to tattle on the flag burner to the DOJ.
Sortor himself illustrates the gross real estate-brained slime balls that MAGA turns into heroes.
Nick is a blatant racist. In the lead-up to, and during, the ICE occupation of Minnesota, Sortor endlessly mocked Somalis - their appearance, their intelligence - and relentlessly called for them to be ethnically cleansed.
He is also a liar. He lies abt Portland, and he is lying abt the incident that led to this trial.
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Meanwhile, Sortor & his rage bait content creation was one of the main influences that inaugurated a season of new MAGA content vigilantes targeting the PDX anti-ICE protests night after night.
It has gotten dangerous. Last weekend, a particularly unstable MAGA agitator, Shane Carroll, brandished a gun and aimed it at anti-ICE protestors. As of today, he has not even been questioned by local law enforcement.
Yet an anti-ICE protestor who yelled at Nick Sortor to leave because he was being aggressive & had been begging the President on Twitter to unleash the military on the city, is facing a trial today, where Nick will be testifying against them.
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As for the trial that began today, none of clips that I've seen appear to show this particular defendant even touch Sortor. They just taunted Nick, as far as I can tell.
Chelly Bouferrache says it was "menacing & harassing", which is all the patriots themselves do, all the time.
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The absurd-on-its-face outcry over PPB's "anti-conservative bias" led to enforcement of ticky tacky crowd control measures on the anti-ICE protests, like jaywalking; which culminated in the destruction of supply tents in the pouring rain, while patriots looted them.
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Five days after his October arrest in PDX, Sortor complained abt it at the bizarre White House Antifa Roundtable, saying PPB was "frankly ... cooperating w antifa."
Trump replied, "At least that horrible night made you famous."
It was a full court propaganda press.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/rightwing-influencers-trump-antifa
For example, Nick & some friends rolled into a Minneapolis neighborhood known for its Somali immigrant population in January, blaring Toto's "Africa" from his loudspeakers as a racist troll. He'd been lurking on their businesses for the month prior, hoping to duplicate Nick Shirley's dubious daycare expose. So the community knew who he was & a frustrated woman stole his phone. Nick was immediately offered encouragement & help from Kash Patel & Bovino.
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