Independent conservative journalist Nick Sortor has in recent weeks shone an unflattering light on the thuggery of anti-ICE rioters and imported grifters in Minneapolis.The efficacy of his reportage — which led on Thursday to at least one arrest — appears to have made him a prime target for radicals who have circulated his image for street-identification purposes, mobbed his vehicle, and attacked another journalist whom they mistook for Sortor.'At least Minneapolis Police haven't erroneously arrested me ... yet.'Sortor shared footage taken by fellow journalist Cam Higby on Sunday revealing the latest lengths radicals have gone to stop him: stealing his camera and dragging him down the sidewalk."A group of Somali thugs just ROBBED me of my $1,000 camera in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis," Sortor indicated in a Sunday evening X post. "Then they DRAGGED ME DOWN THE STREET as my hand got trapped in their door handle."Footage of the incident shows a black-clad woman wearing a face covering approach Sortor's vehicle on the driver's side, grab the journalist's camera through his open window, and take off running.RELATED: 'You are on notice!' Don Lemon backs anti-ICE radicals who stormed Saint Paul church — but DOJ vows reckoning Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty ImagesIn the video, Sortor — who told Blaze News the "Somali thief reached IN to my vehicle and ripped the camera out of my hand, breaking the wrist strap" — quickly exits the vehicle and chases the woman on foot."The Somali mob then ran interference for them as I tried getting it back, giving the thief time to flee," said Sortor.Video confirms that while attempting to capture the apparent thief — who climbed into a red Kia — Sortor is obstructed by multiple shrieking onlookers and then nearly tackled to the ground by a black male wearing a mask. Sortor appears to get his hand stuck in the door handle of the fleeing suspect's vehicle such that when it accelerates down the sidewalk, the journalist is dragged alongside it for a considerable distance.After the suspect flees the scene, a shaken up and bloodied Sortor tells his associate, "They just stole my camera."Women in face coverings and other apparent critics of Sortor encircle the journalist as he makes his way back to his vehicle, ordering him to leave. One of the women admits on camera that they followed Sortor to the scene.Footage shows a Minneapolis police officer telling the journalist after the incident that he should leave the area and that individuals were calling the department to accuse Sortor of harassment."We don't need this stuff to keep happening," says the officer. "This level of hostility, obviously, it's not going away."When asked how his treatment by radicals and police in Minnesota has compared with his treatment in Portland, Sortor told Blaze News, "Much like Portland Police, Minneapolis Police submit to the mob and have been completely neutered by the left-wing government out here. However at least Minneapolis Police haven't erroneously arrested me ... yet."Sortor was arrested when covering an anti-ICE demonstration on Oct. 2 in Portland, Oregon. After determining that it couldn't make a disorderly conduct charge stick, the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office declined to pursue the case. Sortor indicated last month that he plans to sue the City of Portland for allegedly violating his civil rights when targeting and arresting him.Sleuths have alleged that the vehicle in which the suspect fled the scene is registered to an individual whose address is listed as the SpectrumWorks Center in Spring Lake Park, Minnesota. Blaze News was unable to reach the autism support center for comment.Cam Higby noted that "it's the owner of the vehicle who's address is allegedly the autism center. The robber may have hopped in someone else's vehicle."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

During a Senate hearing titled Protecting Women: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Dr. Nisha Verma — where he attempted to “establish a biological reality.”Verma, a medical doctor, was incapable of doing so.“I wasn’t sure I understood your answer to Senator Moody a moment ago. Do you think that men can get pregnant?” Hawley asked Verma.“I hesitated there because I wasn’t sure where the conversation was going or what the goal was. I mean, I do take care of patients with different identities. I take care of many women. I take care of people with different identities. And so that’s where I paused, I think,” she answered.“Well the goal is the truth. So can men get pregnant?” Hawley pressed further.“Again the reason I paused there is I’m not really sure what the goal of the question —” she continued, before Hawley interjected, “The goal is just to establish a biological reality.”The pair went back and forth, with the leftist doctor claiming he was just being “polarizing.”“I’m not trying to be polarizing. I think it is extraordinary that we are here in a hearing about science and about women, and for the record, it’s women who get pregnant, not men. We are here about the safety of women, and the science that shows that this abortion drug causes adverse health events in 11% of cases,” Hawley responded.“There’s a difference between biological men and biological women. I just don’t know how we can take you seriously and your claims to be a person of science if you won’t level with this on this basic issue. I thought we were past all of this,” he continued.“I think it’s extraordinary that you would sit here and advance a political agenda that has been thoroughly discredited and rejected by the American people in this forum. And I’m glad we had this exchange because it is exceptionally clarifying,” he said, adding, “It is also in many ways quite depressing.”While BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is grateful for Hawley’s common sense, she’s also horrified that a doctor is still refusing to acknowledge such basic biological reality.“This woman is going into medical school, and she is teaching young people that ‘I am a person of science, and I represent all of the complex realities of my patients, and I don’t want to answer your very simple question,’” Gonzales comments.“These are the people in charge of your health care. These are the people in charge of setting policies,” she says, adding, “These people are still delusional.”Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

The administration of the newly inaugurated New York City mayor was rocked by yet another controversy over bigoted posts on social media that were later deleted.Afua Atta-Mensah ridiculed liberal white women in the posts on the X platform before being named the chief equity officer of the city by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.'The anti-white racism of Mamdani's inner circle will be on full display for all New York to see.'"There is no one I trust more to advance racial equity across our work in City Hall," Mamdani said about Atta-Mensah when he appointed her to the office.The social media posts were unearthed by the New York Young Republican Club, according to the New York Post.In one post, she wrote emphatically, "Tax them to the white meat!" in reference to a show about wealthy people.In another post from 2020, she reposted a message reading, "There's NO moderate way to Black liberation," and added a comment in approval.She also criticized white liberals and white women in some posts, including one that responded positively to the statement, "we don't talk about white liberal racism enough." She replied, "Facts! It would need to be a series of loooooonnnnnnnggggg conversations." In another, in response to the question, "Who's not police but FEELS like police to you?" she wrote, "White women at nonprofit organizations." Mamdani named Atta-Mensah to the equity office on Thursday before the NYYR released screenshots of the posts that were apparently deleted soon after her elevation."We have the receipts and we are here to win," reads a statement from the NYYRC. "These tweets by Afua Atta-Mensah are just the tip of the iceberg and New York is not going down without a fight. The anti-white racism of Mamdani's inner circle will be on full display for all New York to see."Although Mamdani has only been in office for less than three weeks, a number of members of his team have been found to have issued extremist statements.RELATED: Mamdani makes bizarre promise about World Cup tickets — and gets humiliated by community note Mamdani's housing czar had issued many statements advocating for the state to take control of housing while calling homeownership a tool of "white supremacy."Another aide had advocated for the abolition of police, while yet another said that real terrorism comes from capitalism and their pawns.The Post said City Hall did not respond to requests for comment about its equity director.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Around 9 p.m. on New Year's Day, deputies with the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana responded to a reported medical emergency involving a juvenile at a gas station in Geismar, the sheriff's office said. Geismar is about 30 minutes southeast of Baton Rouge.Upon arrival, deputies found 5-year-old Marley Perilloux unresponsive, officials said.'People be treating their pets almost better than that.'Detectives told WAFB-TV the boy's parents put him in a car and called 911 in search of help, and deputies met them at the gas station off Highway 73.Deputies immediately began performing CPR on the boy while awaiting emergency services, the sheriff's office said.Marley was transported to an area hospital while deputies and other first responders continued life-saving measures, officials said.Ascension Parish Sheriff's Col. Donald Capelo told WAFB that medical professionals at the hospital "continued to work on the child for about 40, 45 minutes before the child just passed away."Detectives with the juvenile unit of the sheriff's office opened an investigation following reports of apparent injuries on the juvenile and additional concerns of child neglect, including severe malnourishment, the sheriff's office said.During their investigation, detectives executed a search warrant at the home where Marley lived with his parents, 33-year-old Marlon Perilloux and 27-year-old Raynisa Young, officials said.Detectives reported the home's interior was in poor condition and barely livable due to Perilloux and Young's negligence, officials said.Detectives interviewed Perilloux and Young and learned that both parents failed to ensure proper hygiene, feeding, and medical care for Marley, who weighed about 19 pounds at the time of death, officials said.Detectives arrested Perilloux and Young for negligent homicide, second-degree cruelty to juveniles, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and illegal carrying of weapons, the sheriff's office said.Both were transported to the Ascension Parish Jail with no bond, officials said, adding that additional or upgraded charges are pending.RELATED: Dad brings toddler daughter into hot tub with him in middle of night; he falls asleep — and she drowns: Cops In addition, investigators said Marley was bedridden and apparently never left the house, WAFB reported."This is probably the worst case of child neglect I’ve seen in my 34 years of law enforcement," Capelo told the station. "To put it in perspective, when the coroners come out, there are body bags for adults, and there are body bags for infants. And this child, 5 years old, fit in an infant body bag."Cellphone video WAFB obtained shows the Geismar apartment where the family of six lived in squalor, the station said, adding that the unit was filled with trash, debris, and mattresses on the floor.Neighbors told the station the news stunned them, and they had no idea what was happening inside the home."People be treating their pets almost better than that," neighbor Calvin Lewis told WAFB.Lewis added to the station that neighbors gladly would have helped if the family had asked."We're a neighborhood where somebody needs something, that we have something going on," Lewis told WAFB. "You're more than welcome to come get a plate or, you know, any way we can help out."The state removed the three other children from the home, the station said.The district attorney told WAFB that he will see if any other adults knew about the child's condition — and if they did, they also could face charges.An autopsy is pending, the station said, adding that investigators said it's unclear when the child last ate.Capelo urged parents dealing with tough times to seek help, WAFB noted."They need to seek help, whether it be through a family member, whether it be through [the Department of Children & Family Services], a division of the state, but you have to seek help," he told the station. "You have to do whatever you can and whatever means you have to just take care of your children."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon criticized Minnesota’s Democrat leadership for failing to enforce state law and arrest protesters who stormed into a local church over the weekend.Dhillon joined Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program” on Monday morning to address the incident, in which radicals disrupted a Christian church in the middle of a service. 'We will not let this happen to another church in the United States.'“We don’t want to prejudge, but I think it is fair to say that I saw multiple federal criminal incidents yesterday, and there will be charges,” she told Beck.Dhillon explained that as soon as she learned about the situation at Cities Church, she immediately activated prosecutors and sent FBI agents to investigate to determine whether the left-wing radicals had violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act or committed any related criminal offenses, including potential conspiracy charges and material support. “It’s only a question of when we can get a judge to sign off on arrest warrants and exactly what the charges would be,” Dhillon stated, noting that the federal judges have to be in Minnesota. “This isn’t Texas, and we aren’t getting exactly rapid-fire support for charges there on the pace we would love.”Dhillon criticized local leaders for failing to enforce the state’s laws by refusing to arrest any of the protesters. RELATED: 'You are on notice!' Don Lemon backs anti-ICE radicals who stormed Saint Paul church — but DOJ vows reckoning Photo by Octavio JONES/AFP via Getty Images“There could have been arrests yesterday if Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, enforced his own laws, and Mary Moriarty, the district attorney of Hennepin County, enforced her own laws,” she remarked. The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsed both Ellison and Moriarty for their respective re-election campaigns in 2022.Dhillon explained to Beck that the federal government “has to jump through some additional hurdles.”Beck asked Dhillon whether former CNN journalist Don Lemon violated any laws by following the protesters into the church. Dhillon responded that she would reserve comment on that situation but proposed a hypothetical involving "a podcaster, once a news anchor."RELATED: The left’s ‘fascism’ routine is a permission slip for violence Harmeet Dhillon. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA privately owned house of worship is not a public forum for protest in the U.S., she stated, adding that charges would likely be imposed in stages. “We will not let this happen to another church in the United States. It is un-American, unacceptable, and there is a zero-tolerance policy for it at this DOJ,” Dhillon concluded.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!