House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was hounded by a group of protesters in Florida — with some cursing and calling her a “communist.”
Video of the confrontation shows the small group of hecklers shouting obscenities and calling Pelosi (D-Calif.) a communist in English and Spanish as she walks into a Wednesday campaign event for congressional hopeful Donna Shalala in Coral Gables.
“You don’t belong here, you f–king communist f—,” one person howls. “You and your f–king Democrats.”
When Pelosi wordlessly walks by and enters the building, the protesters start pounding on the door.
“Open up! It’s the Proud Boys in here,” one person says, referring to the far-right hate group involved in a brawl in Manhattan last weekend.
The crowd then erupts into a chant of “Socialism sucks!”
In a statement to the Washington Post, Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said President Trump and Republicans were to blame for the display of “incivility, intolerance and aggression.”
Emails posted online and reported by The Post show the protest seemed to have been organized by Nelson Diaz, chairman of the Republican Party in Miami-Dade County.
The YouTube clip was shot by a man who reports say is the leader of the Miami chapter of the Proud Boys, according to the right-wing blog Big League Politics.
“Some holier than thou keyboard warriors may not agree with our methods, but I’ll remind them about Maxine Waters condoning violence, and the rest of her party not denouncing the masked leftist domestic terrorists aka antifa,” read a post on the Miami Proud Boys Facebook page.
Photographs taken at the protest show one person wearing a Proud Boys hat and another waving a flag with PB.