Far-left streamer Andrew Mercado leads mob surrounding Nick Sortor and Cam Higby in car, smashing windows, threatening violence

Far-left streamer Andrew Mercado was caught on camera over the weekend threatening journalist Nick Sortor outside Minneapolis’ Whipple federal building. This comes just days after the streamer said he was going to "harass the f*ck" out of "right-wing propagandists."

Mercado was seen approaching the driver’s side door of the car Sortor was in, saying, "I’ll knock you out. I’ll get the whole f*cking state down here, I swear to God I will." He later added, referring to fellow journalist Cam Higby, "shut up Cam. You can come out and get some, too, Cam."

"See what happens. You two should just get the f*ck outta here, that’s what you need to do," Mercado continued, as others near him shouted at Sortor and Higby. "Get the f*ck outta here," he said, calling Sortor a "p*ssy" for being inside his truck.

Sortor’s truck was damaged by rioters at the scene, with his windows being smashed in and the truck vandalized with spray paint. Sortor repeatedly told the crowd to get out of the way, with one person hopping on the truck’s hood, before Sortor sped down the road to escape. Sortor said that he was followed by agitators on the interstate, and that the cops were called on them, with agitators claiming that he had a gun and was "running innocent protestors over."

Sortor had been attacked prior to the incident with Mercado, which the streamer referenced in confronting Sortor, in which a woman attempted to steal his phone while she and others in the group shouted at him. Police broke up the attack with pepper balls and tear gas.

Mercado claimed in the wake of the video that he had "lost my cool," writing, "I should not have lost my cool tonight no matter how tough it gets. I’m sleep deprived, managing PTSD, very little food/water because federal agents murdered one of my fellow Minnesotans. MAGA agitators are best dealt with by ignoring them. It’s difficult for me as a man to watch the same few agitators go from city to city hitting women and instigating fights. I apologize for losing my cool tonight and coming across as a different person."

He added that he has been "aware of Cam Higby and Nick Sortor for years," and that the two journalists’ "actions and behavior go beyond 'different opinions’. Cam has been standing right next to me most days out here and even though im beyond fed up with his antics I do not have a right to physically stop him from doing it."

"When im standing out there and Nick Sortor is literally fighting women in front of me and then causes the entire protest to be tear gassed and flash banged I could not stay quiet about it. But I have to. My camera does plenty of talking."

On January 7, the same day that activist Renee Good was fatally shot by ICE in Minneapolis after attempting to ram an agent after she blocked the street with her car, Mercado said during his stream, "You know what I’m thinking of doing with my media guys? All the right-wing propagandists, harassing the f*ck outta them. I’m talking tracking where they’re at and then just literally following them with a feed. They can’t fight, so they’ll have security, but that’s fine. Security will have to earn their paycheck that day."

"But I think we should just, any of these right-wing, like, Nick Shirleys, we have to follow them around. Cam Higby, Nick Shirley, f*cking, the whole Antifa roundtable journalist bullsh*t, all of them," he continued. "They need to not be able to move without the entire country, in which people are against Trump, know where they’re at."