January 6 baseball bat attacker locked up again

Jake Lang, the white power provocateur and Capitol rioter who is claiming millions in compensation for being jailed over his role on January 6 2021, has managed to get himself locked up again. Lang was ejected from a Tennessee bail hearing on 22 May after attempting to address the court despite being explicitly told he…

28 May 2026

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Jake Lang, the white power provocateur and Capitol rioter who is claiming millions in compensation for being jailed over his role on January 6 2021, has managed to get himself locked up again.

Lang was ejected from a Tennessee bail hearing on 22 May after attempting to address the court despite being explicitly told he had no speaking role. Judge H. Reid Poland III responded by handing him the maximum 10-day contempt sentence permitted under state law.

Cause celebre

The hearing concerned Dalton Eatherly, a far-right livestreamer known as “Chud the Builder,” who faces charges of shooting a Black disabled veteran outside a courthouse and has become a cause célèbre of the online hard right, raising over $100,000 for his legal defence within a single day.

Jake Lang january 6 — Jake Lang on January 6

Lang, who is now running for a Florida US Senate seat, was pardoned by Trump in January 2025 for attacking Capitol Police officers with a baseball bat.

As Searchlight has previously reported, Lang spent nearly four years on remand awaiting trial before receiving his presidential pardon.

Jake Lang ice sculpture attack — Jake Lang attacks anti-ICE ice sculpture

Lang, whose full name is Edward Jacob Lang, was also arrested in Minneapolis in February, for kicking over letters from an ice sculpture reading “Prosecute ICE” to make it read “Pro ICE.”

Lang declared: “President Trump we support you, we support ICE. Our country was made for Americans, not for Somalis.”

Since his release, the self-proclaimed ‘political prisoner’ has led anti-Islam street demonstrations, performed Nazi salutes on camera, used racist slurs, and threatened a Capitol Police commander with public execution.

Now, with characteristic audacity, Lang has confirmed he intends to apply for a share of Trump’s $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund”

Compensation

As we reported last week, nearly 400 pardoned January 6 defendants are queueing up for payouts, among them Proud Boys leaders whose combined original sentences amounted to 82 years, and Rachel Powell, who used an ice axe and battering ram to smash Capitol windows before directing the mob using a bullhorn.

Lang’s ten days in a Tennessee cell will inconvenience him rather less than the officers he hospitalised on 6 January 2021.

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