One of the high-level January 6 defendants is on a hunger strike to protest the conditions of his detention, and has been threatened with force-feeding by correctional officers, according to a lengthy filing with a federal court in Washington, D.C. by defense attorneys. The filing by lawyers for Edward “Jake” Lang, highlighted by CBS reporter Scott MacFarlane, details his experience at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn. Lang is charged with attacking police officers with a baseball bat during the storming of the U.S. Capitol, and has been awaiting trial in lockup for over 1,200 days….