Jake Lang went to Seattle looking for what he called a “furry convention.” Instead, the far-right activist and pardoned January 6 rioter found himself confronting people at an event dedicated to actual cats, including kittens waiting to be adopted.
Lang filmed himself outside the Sea-Meow Convention at Seattle Center Exhibition Hall over the weekends. In a video posted online, he accused the event of grooming and sexualizing children, claiming that organizers were exposing young attendees to a sexual fetish.
The people he confronted tried to explain that the gathering was a cat convention. At one point, a staff member told him, “This is a convention for cats.” Lang continued questioning why people were wearing animal costumes, while another person offered a much simpler explanation: “They’re dressed as kitty cats.”…