It started with a stolen camera. It ended with a man getting dragged down the street.
A Minneapolis protester allegedly swiped a pricey camera from independent journalist Nick Sortor, setting off a frantic chase that turned into a nightmare scene caught on video.
Sortor said the woman was part of a group that tailed him and his crew around the Twin Cities all day. Then, he claims, one of them suddenly ripped his camera right out of his hand while he was driving down the street.
“What did she just do?” one of Sortor’s companions asked as the car screeched to a stop.
“She f–king…,” Sortor started — before bolting out of the vehicle and sprinting after the suspect, whom he later accused of stealing his $1,000 camera.
The footage shows what looks like a street tussle — mostly blocked by Sortor’s car — before the suspect appears to jump into a vehicle and take off.
But Sortor isn’t giving up.
In the clip, he’s seen clinging to the driver’s door handle as the car accelerates away — and he says that’s where it got terrifying.
Sortor claimed his “hand got trapped in their door handle” and he was “dragged down the street.”
Then comes the stomach-drop moment: the driver swerves onto an icy sidewalk to escape, with Sortor sliding and stumbling beside the moving car, struggling to keep his footing as he’s pulled along.
“Just tell her to give him the camera back!” Sortor’s cameraman shouted as they chased.
Moments later, the video cuts — and Sortor is suddenly free, storming down the sidewalk, breathing hard.
“They just stole my camera,” he panted.
That’s when the confrontation turns into a full-blown mob scene.
An agitator steps in, cussing him out on the sidewalk.
“This is what you wanted, right?” the agitator snapped. “Listen here, motherf–ker, you better get the f–k outta here right now!”
Roughly eight others circle Sortor and his crew — pushing them to leave, surrounding them, turning the sidewalk into a pressure cooker.
And Sortor says the worst part wasn’t the theft — it was the silence.
“Nobody stepped in. Nobody stepped in,” he seethed.
As the crowd grew louder, Sortor’s cameraman fired back that they’re “allowed to be here” because “it’s the United States of America.”
Sortor later claimed the group following his car was a “group of Somali thugs” — and called on DHS to “raid this place.”
Watch the clip below [LANGUAGE WARNING]:
🚨 BREAKING: A group of Somali thugs just ROBBED me of my $1,000 camera in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis
They then DRAGGED ME DOWN THE STREET as my hand got trapped in their door handle
NOBODY bothered helping
DHS MUST RAID THIS PLACE! pic.twitter.com/DXI426E9AY
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 18, 2026
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