Overview
- Video recorded by content creator Cam Higby and shared by Nick Sortor appears to show a person snatching Sortor’s camera in Minneapolis’s Cedar Riverside neighborhood.
- Sortor says his hand was caught on the fleeing vehicle’s door handle and that he was dragged along an icy sidewalk during the pursuit.
- The FBI Rapid Response account replied to Sortor’s post with “We’re on it,” indicating a federal review of the incident.
- Sortor posted footage of an exchange with a Minneapolis police officer, claiming officers told him to leave the area and declined to arrest suspects; no arrests have been reported.
- The episode unfolded during ongoing anti-ICE protests in the Twin Cities, with recent confrontations drawing wider attention to press safety and community tensions.