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A "March Against Minnesota Fraud" organized by conservative influencer Jake Lang was scheduled to begin at Minneapolis City Hall on Jan. 17, with organizers describing it as a peaceful rally calling f...
Jake Lang is a far‑right provocateur with a record of racist, anti‑Muslim, and antisemitic statements and violent behavior tied to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, but the available reporting does not provi...
Jake Lang was federally charged in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol with a multi‑count indictment that accused him of assaulting officers with a baseball bat and other o...
Jake Lang’s Jan. 17 “March Against Minnesota Fraud” in Minneapolis was widely anticipated, heavily policed and the subject of community alarm, but the available reporting in this packet does not docum...
Social media posts amplified claims that Jake Lang was “stabbed,” brutally beaten, and abandoned by police—framing the episode as a near-martyrdom and mass “mob” assault—while wire services and local ...
Anti-Muslim demonstrators led by figures such as Jake Lang staged a controversial rally in Dearborn on Nov. 18, 2025, where attempts to burn or desecrate Qur’ans and shouted calls to “clear out Muslim...
No contemporary reporting reviewed confirms that “a Black man” pulled Jake Lang out of a window sill at Minneapolis City Hall to protect him; available accounts show Lang was confined in a recessed wi...
Multiple videos and photos from the January 17 Minneapolis rally capture Jake Lang and his small contingent being overwhelmed by far larger counter‑protest crowds; footage comes from news photographer...
Jake Lang’s public record of speeches, social-media postings and organized rallies contains repeated anti-Muslim, racist and white-nationalist rhetoric that multiple outlets describe as white supremac...
Jake Lang has publicly both made racist, anti‑Muslim and antisemitic statements and — according to multiple accounts of his speeches — explicitly said “I am a racist,” meaning that, based on available...
Yes — reporting shows both anti-Muslim rallies organized by right-wing groups and separate protests with some participants chanting “Death to America” at pro-Palestine or Iran-related events in recent...
Local politicians and national commentators have sharply disagreed about claims of a so‑called “Muslim takeover” in Dearborn: Republican activists and some right‑wing outlets have framed demographic a...
Multiple videos and photographic clips circulated of Jake Lang’s January 17 Minneapolis confrontation — including Lang’s own live-stream posts, news outlet clips and wire photos — but reporting shows ...
A small, right-wing march organized by conservative influencer Jake Lang was overwhelmingly outnumbered by counterprotesters in downtown Minneapolis and withdrew from its initial location after being ...
Visual reporting and multiple news outlets show Jake Lang leaving a Minneapolis protest with visible bruises, scrapes and at least one line of blood on his head, and Lang himself posted that he’d been...
Jake Lang has publicly articulated and performed rhetoric that aligns with white‑replacement ideology, most directly by warning that “White people in America, you will be replaced, and your children w...
Independent, on-the-ground video and photos from the Minneapolis rally show Jake Lang being surrounded, jostled and walking away with what appears to be blood on his neck, footage that Lang and others...
Community leaders and organizers from Minneapolis’s Somali population have portrayed the Jan. 17 Lang march and the massive counterprotests as a source of fear, retraumatization and a test of civic pr...
is a prominent participant who was federally charged with multiple offenses — including allegations he assaulted officers with a baseball bat and a riot shield — spent roughly four years in pretrial d...
There is no confirmed public evidence that January 6 rioters pardoned by President Trump have been hired as ICE agents or Customs and Border Protection officers; reporting repeatedly describes the que...