Right-wing provocateur goes to Nancy Pelosi's house and shows how easy it is to climb over a barrier


Far-right activist Laura Loomer, apparently protesting against illegal immigration, hopped a fence Monday afternoon at the Napa home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), The Daily Beast's Will Sommer reports.
Loomer is a conspiracy theorist who recently spent two hours chained to Twitter headquarters in New York City before getting cold and leaving. Sommer gave a play-by-play of her latest stunt on Twitter, starting with Loomer's arrival at the house. She was accompanied by a few friends wearing yellow safety vests, and they carried a white tent with a sign reading "Immorality."
One of Loomer's friends declared that due to a lack of "no trespassing" signs, it was legal to jump Pelosi's fence, Sommer tweeted, and another told viewers watching on a livestream that they should come down and "ask for 'sanctuary.'" Loomer soon returned from fence jumping, announcing that she tried to open the doors to Pelosi's house, but they were locked. "This seems like an unwise thing to be admitting," Sommer mused.
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Loomer and company then started walking back and forth on the lawn carrying the tent. When the police finally showed up, Loomer wouldn't show identification and told officers the men she brought with her were undocumented immigrants, Sommer tweeted. "Cops aren't thrilled," he noted. After all this, the officers told her to leave, giving her a warning for trespassing and attempting to open the doors on the house. Loomer did prove a point, but maybe not the one she was trying to: Whether it's a wall or a fence or a barrier, if a person wants to get over it, they'll find a way.
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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