Oregon Prosecutors Dismiss Case Against Right-Wing Journalist Nick Sortor After ICE Protest Arrest

Free speech does not justify criminal conduct, Senior Oregon Deputy District Attorney, dismissing a charge of second-degree disorderly conduct against right-wing social media influencer and journalist, Nick Sortor.

Sortor (27) was arrested outside the ICE detention center in South Portland last Thursday, together with two left-wing immigration law protesters.

District Attorney Nathan Vasquez said in a press statement that it mattered not if an individual was expressing ideology ‘from the left, right, or center.’ What mattered was whether there was evidence to prove that a crime had been committed.

Vasquez issued the statement a little more than two hours before Sortor’s arraignment on one count of second-degree disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor offense in Multnomah County.

Sortor’s arrest sparked condemnation from President Donald Trump and was labeled as ‘viewpoint discrimination’ by the U.S. Department of Justice.

According to a decline-to-prosecute memo, Sortor was pushed with an open umbrella when he engaged in a heated argument with a woman outside the ICE facility.

A physical scuffle then erupted when Sortor was confronted by a second woman swinging a stick at him.

Sortor’s Physical Contact Was Defensive in Nature

The Deputy District Attorney’s office found that any physical contact Sortor had with other individuals ‘was defensive in nature.’

Sortor’s attorney says he will almost definitely file a federal Civil Rights lawsuit against the Portland Police Bureau.

The two women involved in the scuffle were both arraigned yesterday on similar disorderly conduct charges.