Minneapolis Once Again Thwarts White Supremacist Jake Lang

Minneapolis, MN — Minneapolis police arrested white supremacist provocateur Edward Jacob “Jake” Lang Saturday afternoon after hundreds of Minneapolis residents came out to protest his second hate rally in front of city hall this year.

The display lasted less than 10 minutes, and after Lang and his entourage left police arrested them and charged them with probable cause riot, a misdemeanor, and impounded the two vehicles they used for the event. Before the arrests, police allowed Lang to drive along the sidewalk in front of city hall.

This marks the second time Lang met fierce resistance while demonstrating in the City of Lakes, with his last anti-Islam march resulting in him needing stitches in the back of his head and being rescued by the very people he preaches hate against. What separates this display, other than him hiding away in a truck and hiring private security guards to accompany him, is the county charging him for a crime.

Lang appeared in the bed of a black Honda Ridgeline followed by a white SUV with flashing lights in its front window before the anticipated start time, with a megaphone and a large sign announcing that “Jake Lang […] hates n*****.” Whatever Lang was shouting was quickly drowned out by the cacophony of counter-protesters who swarmed the truck, which drove on the sidewalk alongside city hall.

Lang first marketed his march as the “N-word March,” he spelled it out in full on his AI created flyer. Lang said the event was to protest the verdict against Rochester, Minnesota, resident Shiloh Hendrix, who was found guilty of disorderly conduct in July after being filmed in April last year calling an 8-year-old boy the same racial slur at a playground. The day before the event, Lang began marketing it as the “Crusader Freedom of Speech Rally,” ostensibly to fit the “crusade” that began with his last appearance in Dearborn, Michigan.

In the original flyer, Hendrix was teased as a potential speaker, as if this event would have gone any other way.

Five others appeared alongside Lang in the bed of the truck, including Jayden Scott, 23, of Bay City, Michigan, who held a large, white cross resembling a thin, picket fence. Scott, one of Lang’s Christian crusaders, was recently denied custody of his son and has been following Lang while missing his own court dates.

Also in the truck was John William-Kei Irwin, 32, of Sterling Heights, Michigan, wearing a gray Under Armor hoodie and waving an American Flag.

Laying down in the truck bed and dressed in military fatigues with a beret was Charles Oscar Miles, Jr., 73, of Ecorse, Michigan. On multiple occasions, Miles can be seen pepper spraying protesters approaching the side of the truck from his low-profile position.

UPDATE: Who Attended Jake Lang’s N-Word March in Minneapolis?

A man dressed in a tight-fitting Spider-Man suit wasted no time by climbing on top of the truck within a minute of its appearance and lunged at Lang, hitting him multiple times in the face before being pulled over the top by one of the six whose face was concealed under a camouflage balaclava, pulling him overboard head-first onto the concrete.

Private security guards dressed in eclectic military-style gear that included black hardhats and GoPro cameras exited the white SUV and wildly hosed the crowd down with pepper spray, not even sparing Lang and his entourage, who were still being pelted with whatever protesters could get their hands on.

One security guard wearing a beige tactical helmet casually sprayed into the crowd with one hand without looking where he was pointing, passively waving his arm back and forth as protesters and press gagged and coughed on a cloud of noxious fumes.

Minneapolis police officers filed out of city hall where they had been waiting, encircling the truck and providing Lang with an escort as his convoy made its way down Fourth Street from Third Avenue South to Fourth Avenue South, all the while continuing to drive on the sidewalk.

The throngs of angry counter-protesters pelted Lang and the others with bottles, water balloons and debris.

At the end of the sidewalk, police officers cleared the way for the truck by dispersing counter-protesters and moving metal barricades. Ultimately, both trucks were able to speed off, disappearing around a corner.

The counter-protesters then turned on the police, chanting “Fuck you MPD, you protect nazis” while pushing them back toward city hall. MPD then filed back into the two entrances and watched as the counter-protest morphed into a rally.

Shortly afterwards, MPD, with assistance from State Patrol, stopped the white SUV near the Washington Avenue and I-35W bridge, according to the MPD Facebook page.

A state patrol helicopter followed Lang’s truck all the way south to Lindau Lane and IKEA Way in Bloomington, where Bloomington police arrested him and impounded the vehicle, according to the MPD Facebook page.

The truck’s driver-side door was dented in and the rear view mirror was broken off. The rear left tire was almost completely missing except for some shreds that somehow clung on.

In a press conference afterwards, Interim Minneapolis Police Chief Bill Peterson said the police department prepared for the event in advance. According to him, police arrested four people in the truck – including Lang – and three people in the SUV, making for a total of seven people. However, during the event, there were seven people in the truck including the driver in addition to private security guards walking alongside it and an unknown number of people in the white SUV.

Peterson added that three MPD officers were injured, including one whose ankle was “rolled up on” by one of the two vehicles in Lang’s convoy.

Lang is currently on bond for charges of criminal damage to property after kicking over a “Prosecute ICE” ice sculpture in front of the Minnesota State Capitol building on Feb. 5. The trial, which was initially set for July, was moved back to Oct. 9.

Others arrested at the scene who may be associates of Lang’s include Stephen Edward Major, 42, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota, and Eric Wayne Dawson, 53, of Columbia Heights, Minnesota.