Pardoned January 6er Jon Mellis, widely known online as “Patriot Wild Man,” was violently attacked by a masked mob of far-left anti-ICE protesters outside the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center on Saturday.
Mellis previously served four years in federal prison over January 6, before being pardoned by the president.
The conservative activist told the New York Post that the mob chased him, doused him with gasoline or a chemical liquid, and punched him repeatedly in the head before he managed to escape.
“Me and my friend went to the anti-ICE protest, we masked up, and we were, you know, lightly telling people that asked that we worked with the DNC,” Mellis told The Post.
“We were doing interviews, I got maybe two or three interviews in before [protesters] recognized me with my mask on, just because I have curly hair and I’m kind of viral, so they started yelling, ‘Proud Boy, Proud Boy,’ and then everybody started coming toward me, immediately throwing things, attacking, pouring gas.”
Eoin Richard, who filmed the attack, told the paper, “We were there to film a protest being held for the one-year anniversary of the ICE raids.”
“I’ve been covering it for over a year now. … Jon was getting some interviews with protesters, very nonpartisan, just simple stuff like, ‘Hey, why are you on the ground?’ After about two interviews, we were swarmed. He was swarmed,” Richard explained.
“It happened so quickly, but basically we wrapped up one interview, and then a woman with a bullhorn came and started shouting in [Mellis’s] face a bunch of different things, and probably five seconds after that, masked Antifa approached him, one with a chemical of some sort, trying to dump it on him.”
“He was doused and as he was trying to push the gallon of liquid away, a guy punches him in the face,” Richard added.
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Richard said the mob was even trying to attack law enforcement.
Mellis and Richard fled on foot as the mob pursued them.
They eventually reached safety and contacted the Los Angeles police.
LAPD officers placed Mellis in the back of a patrol car for his protection and escorted him back to his vehicle.
A police dispersal order was issued, and some arrests were made during the broader protest, but authorities have not confirmed any arrests tied directly to the assault and dousing of Mellis.
No charges have been reported against the masked attackers as of Monday afternoon.
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