Police Arrest Man for Damaging Ice Sculpture at State Capitol

(Learfield News/St. Paul, MN) — An ice sculpture bearing the message “Prosecute ICE” was destroyed outside the Minnesota State Capitol just hours after it was unveiled Thursday.

Authorities say 30-year-old Jake Lang of Lake Worth, Florida, a pardoned January 6 insurrectionist, posted a video on social media showing himself knocking over the sculpture.

Capitol security dispatchers witnessed Lang damaging the display and alerted State Patrol troopers.

Lang was stopped as he drove away and was arrested without incident. He was booked into the Ramsey County Jail on suspicion of felony criminal damage to property.

The sculpture had been installed by the veterans organization Common Defense, along with other community leaders, as a protest against federal immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota.