Black trans woman helps MAGA racist escape violent mobhttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/black-trans-woman-helps-maga-escape-mob/ 🔗Daniel Villarreal (20 Jan 2026)
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 ... 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.
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.
"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."
