Arrested: Rioter Who Shouted ‘Your whole f***in’ family is dead!’ to ICE Agent
“You. I’ll kill your whole f***in’ family. … Your children. Your wife. All dead! I have your face mother***er. You’re dead. Dead.”
In a recent segment on the now-weeklong anti-ICE riots outside Delaney Hall, the immigrant detention center in Newark, New Jersey, Fox News host Laura Ingraham argued that it’s time to stop calling these people protesters. After watching the events unfold, she said, the more accurate term is “insurgents.”
What happened on Wednesday night only reinforced her point. In one of the most disturbing scenes to emerge from the demonstrations, a vicious extremist singled out an unmasked ICE agent and threatened to murder his entire family, shouting: “You. I’ll kill your whole f***in’ family. Your whole f***in’ family is dead. Your children. Your wife. All dead. I have your face, mother***er. You’re dead. Dead.”
🚨 This is EXACTLY WHY ICE agents are FORCED to wear masks
ICE Newark rioter: “I HAVE YOUR FACE, MOTHERF***ER”
“Your WHOLE F***ING FAMILY is DEAD!”
“Your KIDS. Your WIFE. ALL DEAD!”
This is the type of TERRORISM Democrats WANT ICE agents to face by de-masking them pic.twitter.com/d36Iv8JpAj
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 28, 2026
Unfortunately for this menacing thug, cameras recorded every second of his obscenity-laced, death-threat-filled tirade. They also captured a clear view of his face — twisted with hatred and rage — which was instantly broadcast into the living rooms of millions of Americans and, more importantly, placed directly into the hands of law enforcement.
This is a felony.
Does anyone recognize this jackass?
— Derrick Van Orden (@derrickvanorden) May 28, 2026
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche assured Fox News host Will Cain that law enforcement would “find him” and “arrest him.”
Blanche told Cain, “Look, that’s a federal crime. Not only threatening the ICE officer — but think about how disgusting this individual is threatening his wife and his children with death.”
“That is disgusting … and we see his face and I promise you, we will find him, and when we find him, we will arrest him, because it is a crime not only to threaten law enforcement, but not surprisingly, to threaten their family as well.”
🚨 BREAKING: Acting AG Todd Blance just CONFIRMED federal law enforcement will be ARRESTING the man I caught on video threatening to KlLL an ICE agent and his family
"I PROMISE you, we WILL find him, and when we find him, we will ARREST him, because it is a crime not only to… https://t.co/mkueJ0hIKr pic.twitter.com/w9dc9Va1pe
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 28, 2026
And lo and behold, the FBI arrested the foul-mouthed agitator on Friday. Announcing the news on X, Blanche wrote: “Told you. FBI just arrested the man who threatened to kill ICE officers and their families. FAFO.”
Told you. @FBI just arrested the man who threatened to kill ICE officers and their families. FAFO. https://t.co/ai2Y46nmOR
— Acting AG Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) May 30, 2026
George Washington Law School professor Jonathan Turley highlighted the irony in this situation on X. As Democratic politicians push measures to restrict and even criminalize the use of face coverings by ICE agents, this incident serves as a powerful reminder of why agents feel compelled to conceal their identities in the first place.
…New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill called the violent protest entirely “peaceful” in New Jersey yesterday and then blamed ICE for any violence. She also signed a law to criminalize the wearing of masks, as Democrats in Congress blocked funding for ICE on that basis. The video…
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 29, 2026
In a buffoonish attempt at grandstanding earlier this week, New Jersey’s Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill joined several members of Congress in an effort to enter the facility after reports surfaced that some detainees had begun a hunger strike.
Fox News reported that “Sherrill was denied access and has since called for the detention center to be shut down.”
No one was surprised when she vowed to protect the “protesters” outside Delaney Hall during remarks on Friday. She told reporters:
New Jersey law enforcement is today establishing a peaceful, protected protest zone in the area right outside Delaney Hall. My administration will be working together with community members, faith leaders, advocates, and state police to help people move there today.
Way to go, governor. That’s true leadership.
Rather than helping to calm an already volatile situation, the governor’s speech only further inflamed tensions.
BREAKING: NJ Gov. Mikie Sherrill just caved and is siding with the anti-ICE mob at Delaney Hall. She’s now actively blocking the expansion of ICE operations and setting up a "safe zone" for protesters.
She complained that the facility holds "fathers and mothers, sons and… pic.twitter.com/z4AXBBAT6Q
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) May 29, 2026
The good news is that the man who vowed to wipe out an ICE agent’s family is now in custody. The bad news is that too many political leaders seem more interested in protecting the movement that produced him than in condemning the conduct he displayed.
Standing for nothing, the Democratic Party’s entire platform is resistance to President Donald Trump. Yet, remarkably, they still hold an 8.1-point advantage in the RealClearPolitics polling average of the generic congressional vote. Frankly, I find that baffling. It’s terrifying that, after a decade of proven hoaxes and lies, so many Americans continue to take Democratic rhetoric at face value.
But until that changes, incidents like the one outside Delaney Hall will become increasingly common. For those of us who recognize the hypocrisy, we must continue calling it out whenever and wherever we see it, and hope that enough voters see the light before Election Day.
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Meanwhile, the local and state police enable the communists because they’re just following orders.
If people like that woman candidate for congress ever come to power, it will be Officer Friendly pounding on the door in the early hours of the morning, “raus!”-ing Jews into the trucks.
“Fox News host Laura Ingraham argued that it’s time to stop calling these people protesters. After watching the events unfold, she said, the more accurate term is “insurgents.” Democrat insurgents including this Governor.
It’s well past time to start making examples of these people.
The laws on immigration are clear. Don’t like them? Get Congress to change them. Barking fighting words at law enforcement is not one of the solutions.
And it’s not just this one meathead and this one incident either. It’s a conspiracy, it’s a societal contagion fed by the worst aspects of social media.
It is not at all a stretch to treat these fighting words together with Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the multiple attempts on Trump’s life.
Nor can you separate this from the plainly unconstitutional infringement of our second amendment rights either.
Because it’s a lot easier to kill your political opponents when they’ve been disarmed by government.
Gee… I’m sure I’ve read about stuff like this happening before. 🤔
Obviously, his only job is paid protestor. If he had a real job to lose, he would not have shouted these things. Whichever billionaire or leftist NGO is paying him will probably also pay for his legal defense.
@Paul1: Whichever billionaire or NGO paid the rioter ought to be indicted as well.
That, or consider him expendable as just another useful idiot.
Ok but if we set aside for the moment the organized violence and death threats, what we have is a mostly peaceful demonstration. On second thought, forget the “mostly peaceful” part.
If you set aside the organized violence and death threats, you have mostly unorganized violence and death threats, and maybe some peaceful protesters as well.
If you set aside all violence and death threats, you get one of two things: A peaceful demonstration, or an empty street.
This big mouth pansy with safety goggles wants to kill an entire family. My guess is this tough dude freaks out if he stays in the sun too long without moisturizing SPF 45 sunscreen.
Or when his cell mate needs a new bunk mate.
They’re going to make that ginger beard and that nasty mouth into a free-use ‘comfort utility’ on the cellblock
Rape jokes are not funny.
That’s why I only buy the pepper spray with the acetone carrier.
This is why more and more people are deciding that the differences between left and right are irreconcilable and are calling for a national divorce – before the situation turns even more violent and widespread…
Truth. But how is the question. Many different actions can take place between now and then. Most inconceivable to average normal Americans.
One action that has already taken place – I have acquired a Texas CHL…
Somebody apparently does not care for people who are prepared to defend themselves and act “in the common defense”.
The guy threatened the ICE agent’s wife and kids? Did he steal that line from the Virginia AG?
No, the AG didn’t threaten anyone, he merely fantasized to a third party about how nice it would be if something horrible were to happen to a certain person and his family. This guy threatened someone, to his face.
admire the self-control of the ice agent on the receiving end of this fool’s vitriol–you want to threaten me, ok–come on–you threaten my wife and our loved ones with death, first ammendment or no, you likely won’t
be leaving our encounter under your own power
If local LEO won’t respond/are precluded from responding to disperse the mob blocking the gates, obstructing Federal LEO operations, harassing, menacing, threatening Federal LEO and doxing their Spouse/Children …..that’s a problem. Here’s some outside the box solutions:
1. follow through on pulling Customs/ Border Agents from the Airports in that State. Expand it by pulling them from sea ports. Reassign them to bolster site security at the detention facility. Pull CG from safety mission and reassign them to prevent any arrival/departure from NJ port/harbor to preclude unauthorized entry into NJ by illegal aliens or evasion by illegal aliens.
2. Set up traffic control points to stop every commercial vehicle, bus, train, big rig to review the immigration status of everyone on board. Redeploy 1/2 the TSA agents from Newark airport to local Train stations for similar screening.
Those should be enough to get everyone in NJ focused and create enough incentive to gain cooperation in dispersing angry, criminal mobs. If not…..then the President should declare an insurrection and ‘call forth the Militia’.
Note the ‘Militia’ NOT the NG but the ‘unorganized Militia’ of NJ which in NJ is EVERY able bodied resident from 17-45. Hold the muster at FT Dix. Then use the NG to patrol the State to locate any ‘military age residents’ who failed to appear. A simple ID check to verify their age and if they are AWOL they get arrested. Any military age illegal aliens would be easily apprehended either at FT Dix during muster or when apprehended on the street. Should be a pretty quick process to deport them once ID.
You missed one. Every attack on an ICE facility should yield a strong, equally violent response; Isaac Newton writ large. There should be a number of “limp-offs”, “drag-offs” and “carry-offs”; something like the NFL of the 70s– think of the old Oakland Raiders’ secondary. Only when the ante is significantly raised will the weak players avoid the game.
Also, prosecution of those who interfere, obstruct, prevent law enforcement (ICE) from performing their lawful jobs, even government actors who do so. State office is not exempt from the criminal law.
Meh. I’d prefer to use their momentum against them. Especially with bringing the ‘militia’ to FT Dix. Then anyone on the street age 17-45 is automatically gonna get detained… Note NJ doesn’t exclude Females from service its ‘able bodied residents’ of that age range. This allows a brief detention to sort out who/why this individual is not at FT Dix. Given that its an ’emergency’ a dusk to dawn curfew seems reasonable. There’s another opportunity to detain and arrest.
Use the State databases to help sort things out. Anyone with a validly issued permanent ‘handicapped’ placard would be released once the first few days of administrative items arw.worked through at FT Dix. Same for illegal aliens ID in the process. Grabbing up all the folks with outstanding warrants is another positive. Back on the street anyone in that age range who didn’t show up is …AWOL and the Military Courts have jurisdiction.
Busting heads in front of the facility is thinking too small. Cast the widest net possible and get the most fish.
If local LEO won’t respond/are precluded from responding to disperse the mob, then bring in sufficient federal forces to arrest every member of that mob, and charge them with blocking the gates, obstructing Federal LEO operations.
Perhaps, though it would rest on the presumption that:
1. sufficient Federal LEO existed
2. those forces were underutilized elsewhere
Personally I’d assert that neither are true, especially once the Customs agents were pulled from airports and seaports to bolster the defense of the facility and 1/2 TSA agents pulled from NJ airports to establish presence in rail /bus stations and to assist pop-up immigration enforcement checkpoints within the 100 mile border zone ….which Newark definitely falls within as does most of NJ..
Do those things as proactive measures then if insufficient Federal Forces existed to accomplish the mission bring in the militia. Heck maybe every State should be bringing in the unorganized militia for an ‘administrative’ check in given it is the 250th anniversary of the USA. After this year it could be done at census each decade to get a better in person enumeration…. and find illegal aliens, folks with active warrants, unpaid taxes/Court imposed fines. Very handy for all sorts of ‘loddy doddy everybody’ actions.
Beat him senseless. Oops, he must have fallen!
Call them bolsheviks.
They won’t understand the meaning. If they do, they will say ‘thanks’.
Yup. I was thinking exactly that when I typed it. How about just calling them
protest pigs.
What’s his name? He deserves to be known far and wide.
A video screen should be set up outside the facility showing his rage over and over in a loop for all the insurgents present, and the public, to see. Could include showing other America haters, victims, etc. Make it a big screen with a great sound system. Just a thought.
And will he claim “vindictive prosecution?”
Update: Nicholas Matthew Scelfo, 27, from Brooklyn, N.Y.
The DOJ refused to disclose his name and mug shot. Very unfair. Hopefully the DOJ is holding his identification until they can determine and charge the person or persons that paid him to get his statement on video. I understand they pay more for attendees if they are able to get the prescripted message on video so it gets repeated over and over in “news” reports.
As they say, FAFO
He better hope a Leftist Judge saves his utt
“I find that baffling. It’s terrifying that, after a decade of proven hoaxes and lies, so many Americans continue to take Democratic rhetoric at face value.”
You shouldn’t be confused. Most Americans don’t pay a lot of attention to “political” news. Since the majority of the media that people consume comes from the ideological left, what news they do consume is either outright false or heavily manipulated.
” Most Americans don’t pay a lot of attention to “political” news.” After decades of us conservatives telling them to be aware of Democrats rhetoric and increasingly violent actions, these people still won’t listen. When things finally do go bad like we have warning,, then these ‘most Americans’ will ask what happened, how did this happen and we didn’t know, nobody told us….
[Laura Ingraham] said the more accurate term [for these scumbags] is “insurgents.”
Or Insurrectionists (illegal).
This video should be played incessantly by patriots and (real) news organizations in any state contemplating passage of a demasking law, followed by direct accusations of “this is really what you want, you traitors.”
OK, we can expect that his defense will either be a) that his threats were protected by the First Amendment, or b) he was just kidding. That is assuming that an enemy judge does not release him without charge.
Subotai Bahadur
He will certainly claim first amendment protection, but it will be a tough case to make. The threat was made directly to an individual, noting specifically that he could be identified; a reasonable person would certainly assume that he meant it seriously, and that he likely had the means to carry it out. Whether he actually meant it seriously is irrelevant, since the victim can’t read his mind.
“it will be a tough case to make.”
Tougher than “I murdered an old man because I was having a bad day?”
That only got him off the motivation element of the crime. Being motivated by having had a bad day rather than by the victim’s age or race meant he didn’t get a hate crime enhancement, and since he didn’t mean to kill him it was involuntary manslaughter rather than murder. He was still sentenced to eight years.
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