Twin Cities Live: Counterprotesters chase off Jake Lang's group from downtown Minneapolis January 17, 2026

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Source: The Minnesota Star Tribune



Live: Counterprotesters chase off Jake Lang’s group from downtown Minneapolis
January 17, 2026
Hundreds of counterprotesters outnumbered the conservative influencer’s supporters protesting Islam on Saturday.

By Star Tribune staff

Groups from competing protests confronted each other in downtown Minneapolis Saturday as police tried to keep them separated.

Shoving matches and tug-of-wars over banners broke out among dozens of people surrounded by media along the snow-swept streets near City Hall. Minneapolis police officers and Hennepin County sheriff’s deputies scrambled in the chaotic scene to intervene.

Conservative influencer Jake Lang led a small group of fewer than a dozen people with his “March Against Minnesota Fraud” outside Minneapolis City Hall. A second protest, organized by the People’s Action Coalition Against Trump, drew overwhelmingly more people, who chased Lang to a downtown hotel.

Before the events began, Bob Jacobson, commissioner for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety called for peaceful protests, adding that anyone who breaks the law would be arrested. Meanwhile, downtown and Cedar-Riverside leaders urged caution and restraint.
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Ha ha. The good guys using water balloons on the bad guys in WINTER in Minnesota.

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Right-wing influencer Jake Lang is stuck in a window recess against Minneapolis City Hall.

He’s soaked with freezing water after counter-protesters hurled water balloons at him.

bit.ly/4baGhJn

Right-wing influencer Jake Lang is stuck in a window recess against Minneapolis City Hall.

He’s soaked with freezing water after counterprotesters hurled water balloons at him. bit.ly/4baGhJn

— Minnesota Star Tribune (@startribune.com) 2026-01-17T19:09:57Z

[riversedge]

1. Assault with a Wetly weapon

[2naSalit]

2. Now that's...

What I'm talkin' about, have Mother Nature assist you!

Water balloons are great this time of year if you have intruders.

[tanyev]

4. Ice ICE baby.

[regnaD kciN]

3. Watch Mad King Donald use this as a pretext...

…to invoke the Insurrection Act and send it the military.

[2naSalit]

5. He has to prove...

It's a major emergency.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. He won't

[riversedge]

7. Counterprotesters prevented Jake Lang from burning Qur'an

Counterprotesters prevented Jake Lang from burning Qur'an

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. Anti-ICE demonstrators chase off outnumbered far-right activists at Minneapolis rally

Reuters
Anti-ICE demonstrators chase off outnumbered far-right activists at Minneapolis rally

By Brad Brooks
January 17, 2026 6:53 PM EST Updated 1 hour ago

Summary
• Anti-ICE protesters force back small group of far-right activists
• No injuries reported, but influencer says vest blocked stabbing attempt
• Thousands of ICE agents deployed to Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Hundreds of anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis chased off a small group of far-right activists who had vowed to march on a neighborhood where many immigrants live on Saturday, stoking tensions in a city on edge after the killing of Renee Good by a federal immigration agent 10 days ago.

Waving signs and screaming chants that called for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents to leave Minneapolis, the anti-ICE protesters gathered downtown near City Hall. Scores of them moved forward, forcing about 10 far-right demonstrators against the outside of the municipal government center within minutes. Some in the crowd tossed water balloons that soaked the right-wing demonstrators as temperatures hit -4 degrees Fahrenheit (-20 Celsius) with the wind chill.

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[mysteryowl]

13. There were injuries. The Nazis got a little bloodied.

[BigmanPigman]

9. He looks like his barber cuts gave him a Hitler hair cut

All he needs now is a toothbrush mustache and they'd be twins.

[iemanja]

10. I heard there were 7-10 white suprematists

It was a complete flop.

[Skittles]

11. I am impressed by the people of Minnesota

not surprised though, I have long known them to be hardy, patriotic folk

[Klondike Kat]

14. Virginia keeps asking us to return

The battle flag of the 28th Virginia. We keep saying "Nope".

[Roy Rolling]

12. Bad Language

This Nazi-acolyte isn’t an influencer he’s an instigator.

His influence is the same as a person yelling “gun” At a crowded rally.