Minneapolis Woman Aids Far-Right Activist During Chase (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: So you see this guy running towards your car, he's asking for help. Right, yeah, obviously it seemed like he was like an urgent need and so we let him in.

[00:00:07] Speaker 2: Day gotcha was driving through downtown Minneapolis with her friend when a man who was being chased jumped into their car. So we kind of just assumed that, you know, he had been attacked by ICE. The man she and her friend had picked up and were driving to safety was Jake Lyne.

[00:00:23] Speaker 1: Along the way it was like really just me and her asking like who he was or like why this crowd is after him and all that he would say was like I'm a bad boy and I do bad things.

[00:00:33] Speaker 2: Lyne is a far-right activist, a pardoned January 6th rioter who was charged with assaulting an officer at the US Capitol.

[00:00:40] Speaker 1: Pro-ICE baby, America first, America only.

[00:00:43] Speaker 2: Over the last year Lyne has toured the country with a campaign characterized as racist and xenophobic.

[00:00:49] Speaker 1: What's your message to all the Muslims here in the United States?

[00:00:51] Speaker 2: Go home, go back to Somalia, this is a Christian country. On the afternoon Day helped save Lyne in downtown Minneapolis, he said he had planned to publicly burn a Quran. Knowing what you know about Jake Lyne now, would you have still helped him?

[00:01:06] Speaker 1: I feel like I would have. I feel like no one deserves that type of treatment, like you don't deserve to die or be brutally beaten for your views politically, religiously.

[00:01:15] Speaker 2: Do you think Jake Lyne would do the same for you? Absolutely not.

[00:01:20] Speaker 1: I mean, no, no, 100%. I'm exactly what he stands against, which is like a trans woman and a person of color.

[00:01:27] Speaker 2: You guys exchanged numbers in that moment because the car was damaged.

[00:01:31] Speaker 1: Yeah.

[00:01:32] Speaker 2: You text him, right?

[00:01:34] Speaker 1: So I said Jake and then I said, hey, this is Day from the car earlier. While I do not whatsoever support you or your ideals, I'm happy to see that you're going to be okay. And I hope this has some sort of impact on you, because the fear and urgency you felt trying to escape that crowd is what people here feel every day. America was never ours to begin with, so how does it make sense that we can't share, especially with people seeking safety and shelter?

[00:01:53] Speaker 2: Day says Lyne never responded to her text message. What's your message to him if he's watching this?

[00:02:00] Speaker 1: My message would be honestly, like, go to therapy. Like, please, like, get some sort of help, because this is just not the right way to do things. You know what I mean?