A Black man and a transgender woman helped rescue white supremacist provocateur Jake Lang — a Republican U.S. Senate candidate who assaulted U.S. Capitol police officers during the January 6, 2021, riots — after Lang held an anti-Somali, anti-Islam demonstration last Saturday on the steps of Minneapolis, Minnesota’s City Hall.

Lang — who says that Jewish people want to turn the children of white Christian men into “[n-word] lovers” — had promised to lead a march through the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood (which has Minneapolis’ highest concentration of Somali-American residents) before burning a Quran on the steps of City Hall. But he reportedly didn’t get to do either because a group of about 100 anti-racist counterprotestors — who outnumbered the 10 attendees of Lang’s event — cornered Lang outside City Hall before attacking him and chasing him away.

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The anti-racist counterprotestors threw objects and water balloons at Lang before a 30-year-old Black Minneapolis resident named Isaiah Blackwell helped Lang escape.

While Blackwell and other men led Lang away, the crowd continued to lob abuse at Lang, with one person even kicking Lang in the head and numerous others opening the rear car door and kicking Lang some more as a Black trans woman eventually helped Lang escape. Lang suffered bruises, scrapes, and a cut on his head, though he didn’t report his injuries to local law enforcement, the Minneapolis police said.

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“I’m a man, and I believe all humans should be treated the same. It doesn’t matter,” Blackwell told The Star Tribune when explaining why he rescued Lang. Despite Lang’s racist views, Blackwell said, “[Lang] has a story to tell, like I have a story to tell. I took my voice, and I told them, ‘Don’t touch him. Let him go.’ I made a space so he could get out of there.”

Seeing footage of Blackwell assisting Lang, former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak told the aforementioned publication, “Lang saw that Black man as less than him. The Black man saw Lang as a human being.”

Mossad Parasite Jake Lang went to incite hatred in Minneapolis.

Well, he succeeded

Bravo to the beautiful people of Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/RP92xKAm49

— ADAM (@AdameMedia) January 18, 2026

Lang reportedly ducked into a local hotel about four blocks away from City Hall before exiting the hotel about 10 minutes later. Upon exiting, a 22-year-old trans woman named Daye Gottsche saw Lang bloodied and being attacked. Gottsche allowed Lang into the backseat of a car driven by her friend.

“All of a sudden, there’s a bloody man running up to our car and begging for help. We let him in,” Gottsche said. “We’re surrounded by a crowd of people that is clearly angry because they are like beating on the car door, trying to bust open the windows. It was insane.”

Gottsche, who was riding with her friend on the way to a bar, said she and her friend got “weird vibes” from Lang and asked him to leave the vehicle after he said that Trump had helped save his life. Trump pardoned Lang after he had served four years in prison for attacking a U.S. Capitol police officer during the January 6, 2021, riots.

Lang then gave Gottsche his phone number and promised to pay for the damage inflicted upon her friend’s vehicle, including a broken headlight.

Gottsche said she texted Lang, writing to him (in part), “While i do not whatsoever support you or ur ideals, im happy to see that you are gonna be okay, and i hope this has some sort of impact on you. Because the fear and urgency you felt trying to escape that crowd is what people here feel everyday. America was never ours to begin with, so how does it make sense that we cant share, especially with people seeking safety and shelter?”

Lang later recounted the incident to Alex Jones, the anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist who broadcasts InfoWars, saying that he was “lynched” but “Good Samaritans” saw “the humanity of the situation” and saved him.

“I’m so grateful for them,” Lang told Jones. “Many of them were Black. Some of them were even Muslim. And it shows, you know, obviously, this underlying human compassion.”

Lang spent the holiday weekend reposting supportive social media posts from a variety of anti-LGBTQ+ right-wing accounts that blame the Minneapolis counterprotestors for attacking Lang while omitting any mention of Lang’s provocative, racist rhetoric.

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