On January 17, hundreds of anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis shut down a rally called by the ultra-reactionary “influencer” Jake Lang, leaving him bloodied.
Lang, a self-described “January 6 political prisoner,” planned to lead a “March Against the Minnesota Fraud,” a reference to the long-debunked conspiracy theory claiming that Somali immigrants in Minneapolis are engaging in large-scale welfare fraud against the State. The planned centerpiece of the march was to be the burning of a Quran on the steps of City Hall.
Only about ten supporters of ICE joined Lang before a crowd of hundreds of counter-demonstrators surrounded them at the Minneapolis city hall.
Protesters quickly began shouting at Lang to leave and throwing objects at him, including water balloons and snowballs in the frigid temperatures. Others sprayed him in the face with what appeared to be Silly String. Lang tried to escape, but the protesters dragged him back into the crowd.
Heavily-militarized police soon appeared to protect Lang from the protesters. Democrat-Mafia Governor Tim Walz asserted the police were there to “support the rights of all Minnesotans to assemble peacefully”, that is, to defend the provocation of the ultra-reactionaries supporting the ICE terror campaign.
As Lang’s entourage and a few others ushered him away, one protester standing on a barrier wall kicked him in the back of the head, causing Lang to bleed profusely, staining his hair and clothes.
Lang then entered a car of a passerby who reportedly thought Lang had been attacked by ICE. When Lang declared his position in support of mass deportations, the driver kicked him out of the car.
Lang later claimed on social media that he was “lynched by an anti-white mob of liberals & illegal immigrants”. He also claimed to have been stabbed, but this has not been corroborated.
Lang was originally convicted as a “leader” in the January 6 Capitol riot that sought to prevent the confirmation of Democrat-mafia President-elect Joe Biden in 2021. Lang served a prison sentence for four years before being among those whom Trump pardoned in 2025.
Image: Jake Lang’s Pro-ICE Rally Gets Overrun by Anti-ICE Protesters.
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