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BLM Rioters in Wisconsin Threaten to Kill Journalists Nick Sortor and Karlyn Borysenko While Preventing Them from Leaving Area and Attacking Car with VOMIT (VIDEOS)

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BLM Rioters in Wisconsin Threaten to Kill Journalists Nick Sortor and Karlyn Borysenko While Preventing Them from Leaving Area and Attacking Car with VOMIT (VIDEOS)

Independent journalists Nick Sortor and Karlyn Borysenko were in serious danger on Saturday night after being confronted, threatened with death, and having their vehicle attacked with vomit by Black Lives Matter rioters in a self-declared “autonomous zone” that has taken over several blocks of downtown Madison, Wisconsin.

The zone, known as the “Corey Ruiz Autonomous Zone” or “CRAZ,” was formed in the days following the July 22 police shooting of Corey Ruiz, an armed serial felon who was killed while allegedly attacking an officer with a knife.

Protesters have built barricades of pallets, furniture, and spike strips, blocked streets, set up tents, and effectively seized control of the area around Williamson and Baldwin streets, using the playbook from Seattle’s 2020 CHOP/CHAZ.

Sortor, who was driving with Borysenko in the passenger seat, stopped near the encampment and stepped out of the vehicle in an attempt to make jokes and lighten the mood.

Instead, activists surrounded him, blocked him from returning to his car, swung a pole at him, sprayed vomit on him and his vehicle, damaged the left front quarter panel, and repeatedly threatened to kill him.

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Video footage captured one individual warning, “hurry up and leave before your life ends out here” and saying “there’s a whole team of us.”

Borysenko, filming from the passenger seat with a hood over her head, captured the escalating confrontation.

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She noted that the woman swinging the pole had previously appeared hostile toward her during an earlier visit to the zone and that the attackers did not appear to recognize either journalist, making the incident even more alarming because “this could happen to anyone.”

Sortor immediately called 911 after escaping.

Both journalists praised the responding Madison police officers as professional and helpful.

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In follow-up posts, Borysenko suggested many of the individuals involved appeared to be connected to drug activity, with homeless people in the encampment allegedly being used as enforcers.

“BTW all of those people are likely drug dealers who are selling drugs out of that car, or the people they are selling the drugs too,” the journalist, known for extensively studying the far-left and going undercover at their protests and events, wrote.

“The leftists are giving the homeless people in that encampment drugs to use them as their security attack dogs.”

Speaking to The Gateway Pundit, Borysenko said, “Last night, we drove by the autonomous zone in Madison. Nick got out of the car to talk to the activists and cracked a few jokes. They got aggressive and violent and threatened multiple times to destroy the car and kill him. It was absolutely terrifying. One of the same people had been aggressive towards me in the autonomous zone earlier in the day. Hopefully the city will allow the cops to go and arrest the people who did this.”

Sortor called for federal involvement, arguing that allowing violent anarchists to control city blocks should never be tolerated.

Local reporting confirms the zone has disrupted businesses, blocked emergency access, and drawn criticism from Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway, yet it has remained in place into early August.

As of Sunday, no arrests related to the specific assault on the journalists had been publicly announced.

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