Overview
- Viral videos show Sortor being seized and struck outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building as agents deployed flash bangs, tear gas and pepper balls to disperse the crowd.
- Sortor and fellow creator Cam Higby say protesters surrounded and vandalized their vehicle and issued death threats, and they report being detained after 911 calls accused them of having a gun and running people over.
- Sortor posted damaged-vehicle footage and urged an FBI probe into claims protesters hurled frozen water bottles as weapons, a claim not independently verified by authorities.
- Countervailing clips circulated by Mercado Media allege Sortor hit a woman before dispersal munitions were used, leaving competing accounts of who escalated the clash.
- News outlets report no confirmed arrests or completed investigations as of Monday, with local police and federal agencies contacted for comment and protests continuing around federal sites.