Overview
- Lang’s permitted “March Against Minnesota Fraud” near City Hall drew a large counterprotest organized by anti-ICE groups, and physical confrontations erupted.
- Videos showed Lang dragged and bleeding and later trying to flee in a car as people pulled at the door and kicked, while he claimed on social media that he was stabbed.
- News outlets reported they had not independently verified Lang’s stabbing allegation as of publication.
- Lang used racist, anti-Muslim rhetoric during the event and had threatened to burn Qurans and march toward the largely Somali Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, which did not occur.
- State and local officials, including the Minnesota National Guard, monitored the scene after warnings against violence, while far-right allies such as Enrique Tarrio publicly defended Lang and criticized the police response.