Liberated J6er Opens Up After Languishing in Jail For 4 Years as Political Prisoner
“I’m eating my breakfast in bed in my hotel room—I’m enjoying life so much!” J6 political prisoner Jake Lang gushed Wednesday morning after being set free. “I’ve got butter, pancakes, blueberries …”
About 36 hours earlier Lang had been “swarmed and assaulted” by prison officials at the DC Gulag as he peacefully waited for his release. Monday night at 9:30 p.m., about seven officers, led by Lt. Telly Allen, burst through the door, assaulted him and forced him back to his cell, Lang told American Greatness during a telephone interview Wednesday.
“They violently twisted my arms behind my back and scuffed up my wrists and hands,” he said. “They physically picked me up and threw me in my prison cell.”
It wasn’t the first time Lang had been abused by prison guards, but thankfully, it was the last.
On January 20, President Trump pardoned over 1,500 January 6 political prisoners, and Lang was among over 250 still in jail anxiously awaiting his release. He spent the last four years in prison without a trial, and like so many others, was subjected to beatings, solitary confinement, and other forms of torture.
Lang said he spent one more cold night at the DC Gulag, because, thinking he would be released immediately, he had given his mattress and blankets away to other prisoners. Despite this, he said “I slept like a baby knowing that in a few short hours I would be released.”
According to Lang, the U.S. Marshalls showed up on Tuesday at about noon, and he and about five other J6ers were put in a waiting pen for eight hours without food or water or access to the bathroom, while they were “processed.”
Lang said he suspected they were pouring over their records to see if there were any detainers or parole violations that would allow them to keep them locked up.
“They just wanted to get the last pound of flesh out of us,” he said.
While still incarcerated, Lang founded “The January 6 Life Rebuilding Project” to help financially devastated and emotionally scarred J6ers restore their shattered lives.
“We’ve endured four years of cruel and unusual punishment. Now, as we finally taste freedom, many of us will be homeless and penniless. We cannot rebuild alone—we need your help,” he said.
The J6 Life Rebuilding Project is focused on “supplying these men with the necessities to resettle into society: First months rent, a cell phone, clothing and some groceries to hold them over until they begin working again.”
Lang told American Greatness to stay tuned for the “$50 billion lawsuit” that was coming.
Lang was arrested on January 16, 2021 and charged on January 29, 2021 with “Civil Disorder; Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers; Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers Using a Dangerous Weapon; Obstruction of an Official Proceeding; Aiding and Abetting; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Act of Physical Violence in the Capitol Grounds or Buildings.”
Lang, who was photographed wearing a gas mask, and wielding a shield and baseball bat, pled not guilty to all the charges.
He told American Greatness that he didn’t go to the rally with any of those items, explaining that he had been at a boardroom meeting the day before, and had attended the rally wearing business attire.
Like thousands of others who attended the rally, Lang said he had come to protest the rigged 2020 election. He ended up at the brutal battle scene outside the entrance to the tunnel on the lower west side of the Capitol building, where police viciously attacked the protesters and beat Rosanne Boyland to death.
After Boyland died, Lang said he “accumulated the gas mask, the riot shield and the baseball bat” and used them “as defensive measures against the murderers.”
“I wasn’t willing to have any other unarmed women or elderly men be pummeled and brutalized to death,” he said. Boyland had died, he said, “virtually in my arms.”
Lang told American Greatness that he found the gas mask on the ground near the tunnel. The shield and baseball bat, he said, were being “passed around.”
“About a dozen defendants were charged with using that same baseball bat,” he explained, adding that he had been standing there with the riot shield trying to defend himself and others around him from the pepper spray when a suspected antifa agitator handed him the baseball bat.
Lang said he went on to use the baseball bat like “a caveman” would use a torch to ward off “a pack of wolves.”
“I used the bat in this sweeping motion to kind of push back and keep at bay the advance of the Capitol Police that were on a baton death march to kill people,” he said.
During his four year, five day incarceration, Lang said he was moved 17 times to various federal prisons in New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington DC and Brooklyn. “It’s a torture tactic known as “diesel therapy,” he explained. The tacti