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

Minneapolis, MN — On Saturday, Aug. 22, Minneapolis residents met white supremacist provocateur and violent J6 terrorist Edward Jacob “Jake” Lang with fierce resistance outside of Minneapolis City Hall once again.

For his second hate rally in Minneapolis, Lang planned this one as the “N***** March” in protest of Shiloh Hendrix being found guilty of disorderly conduct after calling an 8-year-old the racial slur at a playground in Rochester, Minnesota.

Left, the original advertisement for the event, which he was at the time calling the “N***** March.” Right, the re-branding of the march posted the day before the rally, changing it to a “Crusader Freedom of Speech Rally.”

Instead of arriving unprepared and leaving with a gaping wound in the back of his skull, Lang showed up in the back of a truck with a private security escort following closely behind in an SUV, driving down the sidewalk of City Hall while he and his masked guards doused counter protesters in a generous amount of pepper spray.

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Minneapolis Police provided additional support to Lang by guarding his truck and punching and pushing counter protesters, arresting a handful, including the person dressed as Spider-Man who had jumped onto the truck and punched Lang.

As quickly as they arrived, they left. Halfway through the six-minute performance, Lang snuck away into the passenger seat of the cab, leaving those that remained in the back in something resembling a group fetal position, shielding themselves from debris while dozens of police officers cleared the way for the vehicles to leave.

Hours later, the Minneapolis Police Department announced that officers intercepted both vehicles, impounding them and arresting all of the occupants, charging them with probable cause riot and processing them throughout the afternoon at the Hennepin County Jail.

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The total amounted to seven: four in the truck – including Lang – and three in the SUV. However, three people who were present in the truck when it first appeared were not listed as being arrested.

*The three participants who did not get arrested. All were in the Honda Ridgeline with Lang.*

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An additional person charged with probable cause riot, Matthew Nordby, is not associated with Lang and was a counter-protester.

Who exactly were all of these people that decided to show up with Lang to his much anticipated hate rally?

Lang’s Entourage

Besides Jayden Scott, who appears to have a greater attachment to Lang than his own family – Scott recently lost custody of his son while following Lang around – nobody from his Jan. 17 anti-Islam march in the same City Hall location reappeared for a second helping of Minneapolis’ street justice.

Scott, 23, of Bay City, Michigan, was present in the bed of the truck alongside Lang when it first arrived wearing all black, a “Police Lives Matter” neck gaiter and carrying a large, blue sign reading “freedom of speech is absolute.”

The sign, like many other things the group was carrying, was nabbed by people in the crowd. It later reappeared with parts of the words crossed out, creating the phrase “free pee is absolute.”

Scott was previously a hedge fund manager for a Michigan private healthcare firm called Harmony Investment Group. He resigned from that position after appearing at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Jan. 8, telling protesters “we executed one of you,” referring to the ICE Agent who killed Renee Good the day prior.

Since then, Scott has been nearly inseparable from Lang’s public actions, even having his leg broken by counter-protesters in a February appearance by Lang outside of the city hall in Romulus, Michigan.

Later that month, the two men broke things off after it was revealed on social media that Lang had been sending predatory texts to what he believed was a 15-year-old girl. Two months later, the two were back together, appearing alongside one another at a Dearborn, Michigan, event.

On Saturday in Minneapolis, John William-Kei Irwin, 32, of Sterling Heights, Michigan stood next to Scott in the corner of the truck bed carrying an American flag and masking his face.

Irwin, whose Facebook profile is packed full of homophobic and Islamophobic images and Bible verses, was present at Lang’s rally in Dearborn, Michigan, on Aug. 18.

Irwin is seen in videos at the event screaming about shooting people and waving a cross around while referring to Muslim counter-protesters as “demons.”

Laying on the bed of the truck in full military fatigues and pepper spraying people who approached was Charles Oscar Miles Jr., 73, of Ecorse, Michigan.

Miles, a Black man and a veteran, was likely not confused by how he ended up in that truck despite the look of fear on his face. Like Irwin, Miles was present at the anti-Islam rally in Dearborn.

*Left, a photo of Miles at the anti-Islam event in Dearborn, Michigan. Right, Miles in the bed of the truck pepper spraying counter-protesters.*

“I’m grateful to have met hundreds of amazing people yesterday in Dearborn,” Miles wrote. “To protest against the Islamic Muslim agenda and ideology bringing to us their sharia laws, loud playing prayers 5 times a day, disrespecting their women and their violence and hatred against Christians and Jews. I pray they accept JESUS CHRIST as Savior and LORD over their lives. CHRIST is the [answer] and only way to GOD.”

Before and after the event, he shared multiple videos of Lang speaking at other events, accompanied by his own text, such as “Amen” and “Jake is right.”

*A Facebook post from Miles while at the event in Dearborn.*

Miles considers himself a digital content creator and posts regularly on his social media account to nearly 10,000 followers. The morning of the hate rally, he shared a video claiming MRNA vaccines are “an operating system that takes over the machinery of the cells […] to produce the same viral proteins that made you sick in the first place.”

In May, he posted video of himself at Rededicate 250 in Washington D.C., a Christian nationalist event held by the official organizing group for America’s 250th birthday, Freedom 250, that expressly claimed the United States is a Christian nation.

On Aug. 24, a man named Chris Miles posted to Charles’ Facebook page, condemning him for associating with Lang, including an image of Lang in Los Angeles carrying a sign reading “black parents are failures.”

“So this is the man you go to jail for,” Chris wrote. “You are caught up with [Jake Lang’s] bullshit and the man feels and [thinks] you are a loser.”

The Security Detail

Minneapolis Police arrested three of the masked men who were protecting Lang near the Washington Avenue and I-35W bridge just outside of downtown Minneapolis in the white Ford Explorer SUV that followed closely behind Lang’s black Honda Ridgeline truck.

*The white SUV that followed behind Lang’s black truck. Photo via Minneapolis Police Facebook.*

According to the police and jail records, three men arrested are Matthew Pike Oduguwa, 33, of Shakopee, Eric Wayne Dawson, 53, of Columbia Heights and Stephen Edward Major, 42, of White Bear Lake.

Police impounded the SUV, which was kitted out like a police interceptor with flashing lights, a spotlight and a push bumper, reminiscent of the vehicle that political assassin Vance Boelter used during his murder spree last June when he killed top Democratic leaders in Minnesota.

Several patches adorning their tactical gear read “Executive Protection.” The security flanking the truck spent their time pushing back counter-protesters and spraying everybody with pepper spray – including the people they were protecting, themselves, the media, and the police. A look at Oduguwa’s Facebook page reveals he has been employed as “Executive Protection / Private Security Detail at Executive Protection” since 2014.

The phrase “executive protection” appears to be generic, however, sold on pre-made patches online.

Oduguwa’s profile also lists his role as the founder and CEO of “Icon Protective Services,” which is described as “armed security levels 1-3.” According to business filings, Oduguwa founded the company in November 2025.

All three security agents protecting Lang were armed, with pistols visibly holstered in the front of their tactical vests.

Before founding his own private security company, Oduguwa worked as a bail enforcement agent, posting photos of himself on his Facebook fully dressed in tactical gear with his face covered. In one post from 2024, he includes a picture of himself alongside a distraught man he detained. “Don’t fuck your bondsman and think shits sweet,” Oduguwa wrote in the post.

*A post from Oduguwa’s Facebook related to his work as a bail enforcement agent.*

Oduguwa played a prominent role in Lang’s protection, visible by his height, beige helmet and ill-fitting tactical vest. He was the first of the three outside of the white SUV, indiscriminately pepper spraying everybody without looking and dragging Minneapolis Spider-Man off of Lang and over the top of a masked man in the bed of the truck, causing the latter to fall head-first onto the concrete below.

Another of Lang’s hired security, Eric Dawson, exited the passenger seat of the SUV shortly after counter-protesters began swarming the truck, wearing a black hard hat and a black face mask his nose peaked over the top of. The oldest of the three, he wore boot-cut jeans and an incredibly tight-fitting black polo shirt beneath his tactical vest with a phony police-like badge on his left shoulder strap.

His Facebook profile picture is a photo of him from Chicago Comic-Con dressed as Stone Cold Steve Austin.

*Left, a photo of Eric Dawson from his Facebook dressed as Stone Cold Steve Austin. Right, Dawson dressed in tactical gear, protecting Lang.*

“It’s not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me,” Dawson’s Facebook bio reads. It’s worth noting that what he did was provide security for an event billed as the “N***** March.”

Stephen “Steve” Major was driving the white SUV and had hopped out after seeing a fight to spray down members of the press from behind with pepper spray before returning to the vehicle. Major, the shortest of the three, wore a beige helmet and vest over a black jacket and blue jeans on a warm summer day.

His Facebook profile picture shows him wearing similar tactical gear to what he wore on Aug. 22, specifically his belt and all of its attachments.

*Left, Steve Major’s profile picture on Facebook. Right, a view of Major from behind while protecting Lang, showing the same tactical gear on his belt.*

On April 30, Major posted to a Facebook group called “Emergency Lights on P.O.V. (Personally Owned Vehicles)” with a nearly identical white SUV as the one present with Jake Lang, showing off the “budget friendlier” approach to mimicking law enforcement lights.

*A post Steve Major made on the Facebook group “Emergency Lights on P.O.V. (Personally Owned Vehicles)” showing a nearly identical SUV as seen following Lang’s truck.*

“Doing fugitive recovery and private protection details,” Major wrote. “Used only for work, my second vehicle.”

Major, unlike the other two, appears to have a colorful legal history, including multiple convictions for disorderly conduct, public nuisance, reckless driving and 5th degree assault.

Lang, Scott, Irwin, and Miles, along with the hired security Oduguwa, Major, Dawson and the counter-protester Norby are all still in the Hennepin County Jail as of Monday night at 7 p.m. All are facing probable cause riot charges.

Hennepin County can hold a person suspected for a crime on probable cause before charging them for a total of 36 hours. Weekends do not count for the time, so all of those arrested have until Tuesday at noon to either be charged or released.

Relatedly, the person dressed as Spider-Man, who was arrested, charged with assault, and bonded out of jail on Saturday evening, has his first court appearance on Sept. 4 at 1:15 p.m.

Cover image contributed by L. Cam Anderson. Niko Georgiades contributed to this report for Unicorn Riot.

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