UPDATE: The Eagan Police in Minnesota are helping to protect Nick Sortor and Cam Higby following the incident.
Nick and I fled to Egan Police Department. They were very responsive, and helpful in keeping us safe and assisting following the attack.
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🚨 LET ME BE CLEAR: Eagan Police in Minnesota have been INCREDIBLY helpful following the attack on me tonight.
PLEASE DO NOT LASH OUT AT THEM.
They protected me when vioIent rioters were after us.
I have nothing but GREAT things to say about !
STOP HARASSING THEM,
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This article originally appeared on The Gateway Pundit and was republished with permission.
Guest post by Cassandra MacDonald
Conservative journalist Nick Sortor has been detained in Minneapolis after he was forced to drive through a mob of violent anti-ICE protesters, who surrounded his vehicle, smashed his windows, and threatened to kill him and his colleague, Cam Higby.
Sortor has been on the ground in Minneapolis covering ICE activity and the protesters that follow them.
Earlier on Sunday, Sortor was attacked by the mob rioting outside an ICE facility. Law enforcement had to deploy tear gas and pepper balls to stop it.
🚨🚨 Nick Sortor () was just ATTACKED by a violent mob outside of the Bishop Henry Whipple building in Minneapolis
Federal agents threw a flash bang to disperse the crowd
12:21 AM · Jan 12, 2026 · 352K Views
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NICK SORTOR WAS JUST ATTACKED AGAIN:
During the attack, federal agents deployed a massive amount of tear gas and pepper balls
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Later, while attempting to drive his vehicle, Sortor and Higby were surrounded by protesters who pushed trash into his windows, dumped it on the hood, and even spat on the vehicle.
🚨 BREAKING: and I were just SURROUNDED by leftists simply for existing outside the ICE facility in Minneapolis
These disgusting pigs started pushing trash into my windows and all over the hood, and one spit on my window.
Thank GOD federal agents were nearby, or this
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“Thank GOD federal agents were nearby, or this could’ve gotten ugly,” Sortor reported.
As the evening went on and they attempted to leave, rioters surrounded their vehicle, began smashing windows with frozen waterbottles, spray painting it, and threatening to kill them.
Sortor, clearly fearing for his life, drove them out of harms way — through the rioters.
He wrote:
These are the moments leading up to Minneapolis anti-ICE rioters SURROUNDING my vehicle, smashing my windows, and attempting to kiII Cam Higby and me
I was forced to drive away to save our lives, repeatedly warning those standing in front to GET OUT OF THE WAY.
They didn’t listen, so I had no choice but to go anyway.
They then used vehicles to BLOCK US as we were running, forcing me to throw the truck off the road to go around them.
Then, it appears we were CHASED down the interstate by another one of their goons.
I have to post this now because these idiots called the police on me saying I had a gun and was “running innocent protestors over”
You can try to terrorize me all you want. BUT I WILL NEVER STOP, AND NEVER SHUT UP.
Sorter and Higby both posted videos of the attack.
🚨 BREAKING: These are the moments leading up to Minneapolis anti-ICE rioters SURROUNDING my vehicle, smashing my windows, and attempting to kiII and me
I was forced to drive away to save our lives, repeatedly warning those standing in front to GET OUT OF THE WAY.
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🚨 This is the moment was forced to drive away as a mob SURROUNDED his vehicle, smashed the windows, and spray painted the car.
Rioters have now told that we have guns. The rioters repeatedly threatened to kill us.
2:12 AM · Jan 12, 2026 · 119K Views
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Everything about these people is fake. This is a trained tactic. The kid in the flannel tried saying he was hit, when in fact he hoisted himself onto the hood and did a controlled roll to get off, without a single scratch.
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In order to have Sortor detained, the rioters told police that he and Higby had guns.
🚨Militant protestors used PRE-FROZEN water bottles to smash the windows of truck.
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🚨🚨 Rioters at Minneapolis federal building blocked and I with their vehicles and bodies.
They smashed our windows and tagged the car. We believe we were followed down the interstate.
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Sortor reported that he and Higby have been detained by police.
The Gateway Pundit has reached out to Sortor for more information and will update this article if a response is provided.
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