Justice — real justice — finally showed up in Portland this week. Conservative journalist Nick Sortor, who was arrested last Thursday while documenting Antifa agitators outside the ICE building, has officially been cleared of all charges. The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office admitted what everyone who’s seen the footage already knew: there was no crime here — unless you count being a conservative with a camera.
For months, Portland has been a case study in what happens when city leadership bends the knee to radical mobs. Antifa thugs camped out in front of the ICE facility have been harassing, threatening, and even assaulting people, while the Portland Police Department often stands by doing absolutely nothing. We’ve seen it again and again — reporters attacked, citizens intimidated — yet somehow it’s the victims who end up in handcuffs.
Just ask investigative reporter Katie Daviscourt, who says she was hit in the eye by a “peaceful protester” swinging a flagpole. She immediately sought help from police, who not only refused to arrest the suspect but later had the nerve to ask the public for help identifying the attacker. You can’t make this stuff up.
Then came the Sortor incident — another disgraceful moment in a city that’s all but surrendered to mob rule. Video footage shows Sortor being shoved, punched, and pushed into a hole by one of the so-called “demonstrators.” His response? To ask his assailant repeatedly to back off. Their response? To arrest him instead.
Sortor himself summed it up best: “An altercation where I was clearly the victim… my assailant was not arrested.” The DA’s office, perhaps realizing how ridiculous this looked, has now dropped the disorderly conduct charge, citing insufficient evidence. Meanwhile, two of the actual agitators — Angella Lyn Davis and Son Mi Yi — are the ones who ended up being charged.
This entire fiasco underscores a bigger truth about Portland: law enforcement there has become paralyzed by politics. Officers are terrified to act, prosecutors play favorites, and the radical left knows it can get away with almost anything. But thanks to journalists like Sortor — and others who continue exposing Antifa’s violence — that narrative is beginning to crumble.
The DA’s decision is more than just a personal win for Sortor. It’s a symbolic victory for free speech, for journalism, and for anyone who still believes that truth shouldn’t depend on your politics. The left can keep pretending these are “peaceful protests,” but America’s seen the videos. We know better.
And as for Nick Sortor? He’s not backing down. In his words, “Trust me, this is only the beginning.”
Good — because the fight to hold Portland’s radicals accountable is far from over.
