Islamophobe Sues Dearborn for $200M over Police Response to Quran Desecration Attempt
Florida Republican Senate candidate Jake Lang has filed the $200 million federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Dearborn, Michigan, alleging that police failed to protect him and other demonstrators during what he described as an “anti-Islamification” protest on November 18.
In an X post announcing the lawsuit, Lang wrote: “We have just filed a $200+ MILLION DOLLAR FEDERAL HATE CRIME LAWSUIT on the Dearborn Police Department!!! … + entire ISLAMIC City Council & their spineless Mayor Abdullah Hammoud!! I was viciously assaulted in front of SHARIA POLICE!! They did NOTHING!!”
According to the complaint filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Lang and several co-plaintiffs accuse Dearborn officials of violating their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights under 42 U.S.C. §1983. The suit alleges state-created danger, failure to protect, selective enforcement, and seeks compensatory and punitive damages.
The filing describes the incident as “one of the most shocking displays of deliberate constitutional abandonment ever carried out by a municipal government on American soil.” It asserts that police “knowingly and intentionally refused to protect peaceful American citizens,” leaving them “violently attacked, stalked, threatened, and hunted for hours.”
Footage recorded by independent journalist Brendan Gutenschwager and published by Reuters and Anadolu Agency shows Lang attempting to burn a copy of the Quran with lighter fluid before a counter-protester grabbed the book to prevent it from being set on fire.
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CBS Detroit cameras separately captured Lang taunting counter-protesters with a package of bacon, as well as heated exchanges that escalated into pushing and shoving between both groups. Police were seen confronting Lang at least once, according to photos and video.
“We have a right to self-determination. Our founding fathers fought and died for that posterity, for white Americans, and we are being driven out,” Lang said, according to Daily Sabah. “You come here and you marry four or five women and you outbreed us.”
The outlet noted that his remarks echoed the “Great Replacement” theory, which mainstream researchers widely reject.
Lang is running for Senate in Florida after receiving a presidential pardon from Donald Trump for charges related to the January 6 Capitol riot.
CBS Detroit reported that the confrontations stemmed from Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Anthony Hudson falsely claiming that “Sharia law” was being enforced in Dearborn. Hudson later walked back his comments.
Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi of the Islamic House of Wisdom told CBS Detroit, “Our hearts are broken being victims of that much ignorance and animosity and hatred.”
Lang alleges Dearborn police instituted a “stand-down” directive, allowing assaults that included pepper spray attacks, thrown gravel and food, property damage, sucker-punch assaults, and what the lawsuit describes as an on-camera death threat against him.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson rejected the claim, saying, “The attempts to disrupt and create violence or worsen this community did not succeed this week. Thanks to these great local leaders and so many others, they brought us together.”
Lang has been involved in high-profile litigation before. As previously reported by The Dallas Express, he helped lead a $50 billion class action lawsuit filed in 2024 on behalf of January 6 defendants accusing the Department of Justice of political overreach and civil rights violations. That suit drew national attention and widespread commentary on X, including statements from The Dallas Express publisher Monty Bennett, who criticized what he described as “over-zealous interpretations of already overreaching federal laws.”
Source: dallasexpress.com
