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When Nick Sortor [ [link removed] ], an independent journalist, showed up to film protests outside Portland’s ICE facility last week, he thought he was documenting the news.
He didn’t expect to become the news.
Moments after a scuffle broke out, police slammed Sortor to the ground, handcuffed him, and hauled him away — while the very people he says attacked him walked off untouched.
Sortor’s alleged crime?
“Second-degree disorderly conduct.” [ [link removed] ]
The message?
If you stand on the wrong side of Portland’s politics, you’re not protected by the law. You’re persecuted by it.
The Arrest Heard Across America
Video [ [link removed] ] shows police tackling Sortor and arresting him as he protests his innocence. What it doesn’t show is what came first — the alleged Antifa attackers who, according to Sortor, “jumped” him in front of witnesses.
Hours later, he was released without bond — and with a bruised face, a swollen wrist, and a microphone full of dirt.
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, now U.S. Attorney General, personally called Sortor and promised a federal investigation.
The Department of Justice has confirmed its opening a civil rights probe [ [link removed] ]into the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) — focusing not only on Sortor’s arrest, but on other recent cases where conservative or Christian journalists were detained during Antifa-related riots.
The investigation will demand body-cam footage, internal emails, and arrest logs to determine if Portland police are selectively enforcing laws based on ideology — a fancy way of saying: Did they arrest the victims and protect the thugs?
The Portland Police Pushback
PPB Chief Bob Day [ [link removed] ]insists his department acted by the book.
He says three people were arrested that night “for fighting,” not for political reasons.
Yet so far, only one name has made the news — Nick Sortor — the one person who wasn’t dressed in black, masked up, or carrying anarchist flags.
Meanwhile, Oregon’s liberal establishment is circling the wagons.
City officials [ [link removed] ] and local coverage have framed such incidents as standard arrest procedures while denying any viewpoint bias.
Pam Bondi Fires Back
Within 48 hours, Bondi’s office confirmed a federal civil rights investigation into the Portland Police.
Her deputies — including Harmeet Dhillon [ [link removed] ]— are demanding every second of body-cam video and all incident reports related to the ICE protest clash.
Speaking to the media later Friday morning, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt [ [link removed] ]called the arrest “extremely troubling,” claiming that Sortor was “ambushed by Antifa and was defending himself.”
Her words echoed across conservative media — and sent a chill through city hall.
If Leavitt is right, Portland isn’t just facing a public-relations crisis. It’s facing a civil-rights reckoning.
The Bigger Picture: When Law Turns Political
What’s happening in Portland isn’t new. For years, Antifa has enjoyed a kind of street immunity in the city. Churches vandalized. Police stations firebombed. Businesses smashed to rubble.
Few arrests. Even fewer prosecutions.
But when conservative journalists, pastors, or parents show up to film or speak?
Suddenly, it’s cuffs, citations, and mugshots.
This is not law enforcement. It’s ideological enforcement.
And it’s spreading. From Portland to San Francisco to Washington, D.C., the American Left has learned something darkly powerful: If you control the police narrative, you control the streets.
Where Are the Christian Voices?
If justice now bends to political loyalty, Christians must speak — loudly.
Scripture commands: “Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression” (Isaiah 1:17).
We can’t “correct oppression” by staying silent when the law itself becomes a weapon.
If Portland’s police can arrest journalists for being on the wrong side of a protest, what happens next time it’s a pastor… or a parent at a school board meeting?
Final Word and Call to Action
America once believed justice was blind.
In Portland, it’s wearing a black hoodie and holding a Molotov cocktail.
And if Nick Sortor’s arrest proves anything, it’s that the greatest threat to liberty isn’t chaos in the streets — it’s cowardice in our institutions.
If you stand for equal justice, demand that the DOJ release the full Portland investigation to the public.
Share this story.
Expose what’s happening.
And never stop fighting for a country where truth still matters.
Martin Mawyer is the President of Christian Action Network, host of the “Shout Out Patriots” podcast and author of When Evil Stops Hiding [ [link removed] ]. Subscribe [ [link removed] ] for more action alerts, cultural commentary, and real-world campaigns defending faith, family, and freedom.

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