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Conservative journalist accuses legacy media of covering up Minneapolis ‘riot’
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Independent journalist Nick Sortor criticized the legacy media on Monday, alleging chaotic “riot” conditions in Minneapolis have largely gone unreported.
“It’s been a riot since day one… they’ve been trying to cover it up,” Sortor told “Jesse Watters Primetime” guest host Charlie Hurt.
“The legacy media, in particular, they don’t want to show what’s actually going on out here. I have to do this live shot from several blocks away,” he added, pointing to police lights in the distance.
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A firework explodes near fencing outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building during protests Monday, Jan. 12, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)
“But I can’t go over there anymore because I will be attacked, even with police lights over there. That is not a protest.”
Sortor shared a harrowing experience on social media earlier this month when anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agitators swarmed his vehicle, shouting at him and yelling expletives.
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Video shot by Nick Sortor shows a group of anti-ICE protesters who swarmed his car in Minnesota on Jan. 11. (X/@nicksortor)
He said the agitators hurled frozen water bottles in his direction, smashed his windows and vandalized the vehicle with spray paint.
Sortor said his camera was also stolen and claimed that, despite the crime, he was forced to leave the area instead of the perpetrator.
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“It’s crazy to me that this is the point that we’re at. We are on our own out here, and we have to take our cities back. We cannot allow no-go zones to be set up in otherwise beautiful states like this.”
Tensions have brewed in Minneapolis since the ICE-involved death of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good after she appeared to accelerate her car in an agent’s direction earlier this month.
Fox News’ Ashley Carnahan contributed to this report.
Three people are injured after a shooting in north Minneapolis on Monday night.
The Minneapolis Police Department says that just before 8:20 p.m., officers responded to the report of a shooting on the 1600 block of Girard Avenue North.
Authorities found a man with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds outside a vehicle and a woman in the vehicle with at least one non-life-threatening gunshot wound. Both were brought to the hospital for their injuries.
Police were notified that a third person was injured and found a man hiding in a shed on the 1500 block of Girard Avenue North, who was also brought to the hospital with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.
MPD is working to determine what led up to the shooting and how the three people are connected to each other.
No arrests have been made at this time.
A federal judge has quashed a set of grand jury subpoenas targeting Minnesota officials including Governor Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, and Attorney General Keith Ellison, ruling that the Department of Justice was attempting to “harass” Minnesota leaders into enforcing immigration policy. FOX 9’s Rob Olson has the story.
Three men were shot early Monday morning near a busy northeast Minneapolis intersection, and police say one of the victims is fighting for his life.
Minneapolis police say the shooting happened just before 12:30 a.m. near the area of East Hennepin Avenue and University Avenue Northeast.
Witnesses called 911 to report “multiple rounds of gunfire” and seeing people fleeing on foot in the area.
Police say officers arrived at the scene to find a man suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds. About 10 minutes after the shooting, two others arrived at Hennepin Healthcare with wounds that aren’t considered life-threatening.
This was the third reported shooting this weekend in the city. A woman was shot in the head and hand Saturday night near Bossen Field Park in the southeast corner of the city.
About three hours later, two men were shot near the Wedge Community Co-op off Lyndale Avenue and West 22nd Street. One of the men later died at Hennepin Healthcare.
No arrests have been made in any of these cases, police say, and the respective investigations are ongoing.
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