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Counter protesters outnumber Jake Lang\u2019s \u2018CRUSADER MARCH\u2019 and toss water balloons and snowballs
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A pardoned January 6 rioter<\/a> led a rally in support of federal immigration officers in Minneapolis<\/a> but was vastly overwhelmed by counter-protesters demonstrating against Donald Trump\u2019s administration and a surge of law enforcement agents in the city.
Jake Lang, who was among the roughly 1,600 rioters granted clemency<\/a> by the president on his first day in office, was chased from the city\u2019s federal courthouse and targeted with water balloons amid sub-freezing temperatures Saturday.
Earlier in the day, Lang\u2019s group played the song \u201cIce Ice Baby<\/a>\u201d by Vanilla Ice and railed against immigrants, who they claimed were \u201creplacing<\/a>\u201d white people as counter-protesters<\/a> shouted them down, according to The Washington Post<\/em>.
Lang, who promised to burn a Quran during the demonstration, branded the rally a \u201cCRUSADER MARCH<\/a>\u201d on \u201cLittle Somalia,\u201d referencing the state\u2019s large Somali population that the administration has accused of widespread fraud as the president expands his mass deportation campaign.
The event drew sharp opposition from critics, who derided his march as racist and Islamophobic.
Ahead of Saturday\u2019s rally, Lang said he planned to burn a copy of the Islamic religious text on the steps of City Hall. \u201cAmerica is a CHRISTIAN COUNTRY; we will not allow Somali Daycare Pirates to overtake Minneapolis,\u201d he wrote on social media.
A group called the People\u2019s Action Coalition Against Trump said on Instagram that it would demonstrate against Lang\u2019s \u201chateful anti-Islam rally,\u201d and dozens of counter-protesters arrived on the scene.
\u201cHey, Minnesota what do we say?\u201d one demonstrator chanted into a megaphone. \u201cF*** Nazis every day.\u201d
They also tossed water balloons at the pardoned rioter and hurled snowballs at other anti-immigration protesters as they chased them from the scene.
Video footage posted by Lang shows throngs of counterprotestors, some of whom held anti-ICE signs, surrounding him, pulling at his clothes and attempting to remove him from outside the courthouse.
Lang later claimed on X\/Twitter that he was \u201cstabbed by a crazie white commie leftist rioter.\u201d Video footage shows him walking away from the area with what appeared to be blood on his neck.
The dueling demonstrations unfolded after hundreds of federal immigration agents flooded into Minneapolis in recent days, following a pair of shootings by ICE agents. On January 7, an ICE officer fatally shot Renee Good<\/a>, a 37-year-old mother of three, sparking political outrage and protests across the country.
On Thursday, Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act<\/a> \u2014 an emergency power not used for more than three decades \u2014 to deploy active-duty troops against citizens protesting his administration. But the president appeared to walk back<\/a> his comments one day later.
State and local officials have sought to expel federal immigration officers from the North Star State. After Good\u2019s killing, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey<\/a> delivered a blunt message to ICE to \u201cget the f*** out.\u201d And last week, Minnesota officials sued the Trump administration over its \u201cunprecedented<\/a>\u201d surge, alleging it violates the Constitution.
The White House has vowed to redouble its immigration enforcement efforts and accused Democrats of supporting violence against law enforcement. The Department of Justice has accused Frey and Minnesota Tim Walz of obstructing law enforcement<\/a>, which the governor condemned as a \u201cdangerous, authoritarian tactic\u201d that weaponizes the justice system against the president\u2019s political opponents.
Lang, who was charged with attacking police officers with a bat at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, spent four years in jail before Trump pardoned him upon returning to office.
In March, he mounted a long-shot bid<\/a> for a U.S. Senate seat in Florida.
On social media, where he has amassed thousands of followers, Lang regularly rails against immigrants, particularly Muslims. Earlier this month, he posted footage of himself holding a pig head with a Quran in its mouth. In recent days, he\u2019s made racist attacks on Minneapolis\u2019 Somali community, which the president has repeatedly used racist and derogatory language to describe, including labeling them \u201cgarbage\u201d who \u201ccome from hell.\u201d
The governor has directed the mobilization of the Minnesota National Guard to support local law enforcement and emergency management agencies, according to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.
\u201cThey are not deployed to city streets at this time, but are ready to help support public safety, including protection of life, preservation of property and supporting the rights of all who assemble peacefully,\u201d according to the agency.
On Friday, a federal judge limited the use of force against protesters in the city<\/a>, blocking agents from \u201cretaliating\u201d against peaceful protesters and indiscriminately using riot control weapons on crowds.
\u201cWhile peaceful expression is protected, any actions that harm people, destroy property or jeopardize public safety will not be tolerated,\u201d agency commissioner Bob Jacobson said Friday. \u201cDemonstrations must remain safe, and they must remain lawful.\u201d
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