The Black man and women who rescued right-wing influencer Jake Lang from protesters in Minneapolis

The man who stepped in and ushered conservative influencer and Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang away from counter protesters outside Minneapolis City Hall over the weekend said a sense of humanity inspired him in the moment.

Isaiah Blackwell, 30, was the man dressed in black and wearing dark sunglasses who tucked himself in a City Hall window well Saturday next to Lang, who was in the city for his anti-Islam rally, which was scrapped before he could carry out his plan to burn a Qur’an and march to the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, home to Minneapolis’ highest concentration of Somali American residents.

Hundreds swarmed upon Lang, who was soaked on the frigid afternoon with shots from water guns and draped with silly string from the crowd.

After being pulled down from the window ledge, Lang was pressed against the wall as the amped-up crowd closed in. Just a handful of Lang supporters showed up for the rally.

Only Blackwell, face-to-face, kept Lang from being fully engulfed by his detractors.

Blackwell soon led Lang away from City Hall, at times clutching him by one arm or guiding him from behind with hands on his shoulders.

Lang said on social media that he suffered a bloody blow to the head at one point before he found his escape.

Regardless of his politics and views about Somali immigrants, Lang “has a story to tell, like I have a story to tell,” said Blackwell, of Minneapolis. “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.”

Blackwell said he came to City Hall at that time because “God, my Father, told me to stop by. I just had to stop by.”

Echoing many who witnessed Blackwell’s concern for Lang, former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak said, “Lang saw that Black man as less than him. The Black man saw Lang as a human being.”

Lang retreated into hotel lobby four blocks away from City Hall, and then came outside about 10 minutes later.

Daye Gottsche, 22, and Aleigha Henderson, 25, were driving by the hotel, heading to a bar when a bloodied man approached their car at a red light. They had no idea the man was Lang.

Protesters opened the back door and tried pulling Lang out of the car and kicking him as he pleaded with Henderson to drive. She peeled off once the light turned green.

“Who did they just pick up?” the two friends thought.

“I looked directly back at him, and I was like, ‘What the [expletive] did you do?’” Gottsche said.

Lang wouldn’t tell them who he was or what was going on, Gottsche said, only that Trump had saved his life. (Trump pardoned Lang who spent four years in prison after beating a U.S. Capitol police officer with a bat Jan. 6, 2021.)

Gottsche said they got weird vibes, so they pulled over after a few blocks and told him to get out. A video of them shows Henderson telling Lang that they were “trying to do a good deed” until they “find out you’re the devil,” she said with a laugh.

“I’m not invited for the drinks?” Lang says to them.

“No!” the friends shouted in unison.

Lang gave the women his number, promising to pay for the damage to Henderson’s car, including a broken headlight.

Afterward, the two friends sat in the car stunned. Gottsche texted Lang again the next day reminding him to repay her friend along with a message. She said while she doesn’t support his ideals, she’s happy that he will be OK and she hopes the experience has an impact on him.

“...because the fear and urgency you felt trying to escape that crowd is what people here feel everyday,” she said.

In an interview Saturday night from the airport as he left Minnesota, Lang told Info War’s Alex Jones that he was “lynched” at his rally, but a “Good Samaritans” saw “the humanity of the situation.”