Pardoned January 6 rioter Jake Lang was arrested in Minneapolis after he vandalized an ice sculpture at the State Capitol that read “Prosecute ICE.”
Lang posted a video of himself kicking down portions of the sculpture until it read “Pro ICE.”
“President Trump, we support you. We support ICE. Our country was made for Americans, not for Somalis,” Lang claimed in the video.
The sculpture installation was put in place earlier on Thursday by an activist veterans group, Common Dreams, who was protesting ICE’s presence in Minnesota.
Lang, 30, was seen leaving the area in a vehicle and was subsequently stopped by a state trooper at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and University Avenue, arrested without incident, and booked into the Ramsey County Jail on suspicion of criminal damage to property.
Lang later posted an update to his video stating he was being charged with a felony for $6,000 in damage to the ice sculpture.
“I gave eight years of my life in service to this country in the military,” said veteran Jacob Thomas, communications director for Common Dreams. “For a January 6 insurrectionist to destroy our display is an attack on the First Amendment veterans like me fought to defend. Like the ICE agents who murdered Alex Pretti and Rebecca Good — these criminals need to be prosecuted.”
Lang, who is now running for the U.S. Senate in Florida, has also said he believes the Proud Boys should be deputized to “bounty hunt illegal immigrants.”