Exclusive | Far-left anti-ICE activists pour gasoline on Trump superfan outside LA detention center
The Jan.6 rioter who was turfed from Spencer Pratt’s election night party was swarmed by a group of anti-ICE protesters outside the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center on Saturday in a disturbing incident caught on video.Footage shows Jon Mellis, 39, known online as @PatriotWildMan, being repeatedly taunted as a “pedophile worshipper,” chased, and allegedly doused with gasoline by masked protesters as he attempted to escape the confrontation.He managed to outrun the pursuing mob, although he was allegedly struck several times in the head per the video.“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 claimed.“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 and then everybody started coming toward me, immediately throwing things, attacking, pouring gas.”Cameraman Eoin Richard, who has covered protests in Washington, Chicago and Minneapolis, filmed the Saturday altercation in downtown LA.He claimed to the The Post those who attacked him were Antifa protesters. “We were there to film a protest being held for the one-year anniversary of the ICE raids,” Richard said.
“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 warmed.”The video captures the mob’s aggression, with masked individuals lunging at Mellis and Richard outside the ICE detention facility.“It happened so quickly,” Richard said, “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 th...