Minneapolis woman describes spiriting wounded Jake Lang from crowd

FOX 9 reports that Minneapolis resident Daye Gottsche and a friend inadvertently became central to a downtown confrontation when far‑right influencer Jake Lang — recently pardoned by President Trump for allegedly assaulting officers on Jan. 6 — jumped, bleeding, into their car at a red light as counterprotesters chased and struck him. Gottsche says protesters surrounded the vehicle, opened the rear doors, kicked Lang and damaged the taillight before some in the crowd ultimately cleared a path so they could drive away; she confronted Lang, who offered little beyond praising Trump and calling himself “a bad boy,” and the women dropped him a couple blocks away, where he got into another vehicle. Gottsche told FOX 9 she opposes Lang’s politics but believes the street attack was wrong and played into a narrative the federal government could use to justify invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota. The piece folds this incident into a larger backdrop: Trump has publicly threatened to deploy the military here if state leaders don’t “crack down” on anti‑ICE protests, and the Pentagon has put cold‑weather troops on prepare‑to‑deploy orders for Minnesota. The story underscores how out‑of‑town extremists and local counterprotesters are colliding on Minneapolis streets, dragging ordinary residents into volatile, politically charged confrontations just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.