Jayden Scott #

Introduction #

Jayden Scott is a Bay City, Michigan, businessman whose brief run as a national news story began with a shout. In a viral video recorded at an anti-ICE demonstration in Minneapolis on January 8, 2026, Scott was seen telling protesters “we executed one of you yesterday” — words spoken a day after Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ICE officer. Two days later, on Saturday, January 10, he announced on LinkedIn that he was resigning from Harmony Investment Group, a Troy-based private health care firm in southeast Michigan, in a farewell post that began “It is with a sad heart” and ended “So long my friends.” Press coverage described the departure as that of the firm’s chief executive.

Background Information #

Scott is from Bay City, Michigan, on the state’s Saginaw Bay. Harmony Investment Group, the firm he announced his resignation from, is a private health care company based in Troy, Michigan. Before the Minneapolis clip, MLive reported, Scott had already appeared in videos at a protest in Dearborn in late 2025 and at a counterprotest for the “No Kings” protest in Bay City — a pattern of showing up at immigration-related flashpoints that the Minneapolis video turned into a career problem. Beyond that, the public record of his business career is thin; his own LinkedIn farewell — “We built many great things. Mountains were moved. Fortunes were made.” — is the fullest account of his time at the firm.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation #

Own conduct, undisputed. The shouts described here are Scott’s own, on video he never disputed; the viral clip and his LinkedIn resignation statement are the record. No criminal charge was involved.

The video was recorded on January 8, 2026, at an anti-ICE demonstration in Minneapolis that took place a day after Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ICE officer. In the clip, Scott shouted “we executed one of you yesterday” toward the protesters. He referred to the protesters as terrorists and called for more “patriots,” and said, “We need the backup.” The clip spread rapidly online, and the identification of a Michigan health-care executive as the man in it did the rest: two days after the protest, on Saturday, January 10, Scott took to LinkedIn to announce his resignation from Harmony Investment Group.

Public Reaction and Consequences #

The consequence arrived within days, and Scott himself announced it. WWMT/Mid-Michigan NOW reported that Scott had resigned as CEO from a southeast Michigan company after the video of him yelling at ICE protestors in Minnesota went viral. In the post, Scott wrote: “With recent developments in America, the board and I have decided (that) we have different views of the future of America. It was a great run.” MLive published the longer version: “It is with a sad heart I announce my departure and formal resignation of Harmony Investment Group… Until next time, So long my friends. Thank you for everything.” Neither outlet recorded any statement from the company itself, and Scott could not immediately be reached for comment.

Current Status #

As of mid-January 2026, the resignation stood as announced, with Scott’s LinkedIn post serving as both the announcement and his only public comment. One note of caution attaches to his title: later reporting on the episode said company records described his role at Harmony differently, attributing the chief-executive listing to a website error — though the resignation itself was announced in his own LinkedIn post and reported as a CEO departure in press coverage. There is no reporting on where Scott has gone since, and MLive noted he could not immediately be reached for comment.

Impact on Their Career/Life #

Roughly forty-eight hours separated the shout from the resignation. A businessman whose public profile had been local — a Bay City “No Kings” counterprotest, a Dearborn demonstration — became, in one viral clip, the answer to the question of what a chief executive’s weekend at somebody else’s protest can cost. Characteristically, his farewell post did not apologize; it cast the exit as a parting of ways over “different views of the future of America” and closed on a victory-lap note: “We built many great things. Mountains were moved. Fortunes were made. Until next time, So long my friends. Thank you for everything.” The video, not the board, made the decision; Scott merely chose how to leave.