Ducking and holding his bleeding head, conservative influencer Jake Lang left the “March Against Minnesota Fraud” protest he organized Saturday afternoon at Minneapolis City Hall with hundreds of counter-protesters following him.
Lang, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida, said on X that thousands of people were coming to Minnesota to march as “Christian Crusaders” supporting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and calling for the arrest of Gov. Tim Walz. Lang was convicted of assaulting a police officer with a baseball bat in the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, and spent four years in a federal jail before he was pardoned by President Donald Trump.
When Lang first tried to make his way through the crowds to get to City Hall on Saturday, two to three men repeatedly punched him and his supporters. Once he was at City Hall, counter-protesters shouted and drowned out his words, threw snowballs at him and sprayed him with water.
Media at the scene reported that less than a dozen supporters for Lang were at the demonstration, while an estimated 2,000 counter-protesters showed up.
Less than an hour after the 1 p.m. protest, Lang, supported by two men holding his arms as he held his head, made his way through the crowd of counter protestors. At least one man punched him in the back of the head as he was escorted into a hotel a few blocks away, according to a video posted to X.
After he ran inside an open door of the hotel, people held up a Quran, the Muslim holy book, that Lang had threatened to burn on the steps of City Hall and the tactical vest he had been wearing.
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