Did protesters shout "Lock her up!" when confronting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the Congress floor? No, that's not true: This interaction took place between pro-immigration protesters and Pelosi at a press conference in San Francisco on September 18, 2017. The audio heard in this Facebook video is from somewhere else. The original audio from this day had protesters chanting phrases like, "You're a liar!" "Shut down ICE!" and "We demand to be heard ... we are not your bargaining chip!"
The claim appeared in a Facebook post on June 2, 2022. The video opened with chants of:
'Lock her up! Lock her up!'
The video was captioned, "๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ - ๐๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฌ Nancy Pelosi, ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ her on Congress Floor." This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
The protest took place at a September 18, 2017, press conference in San Francisco, Pelosi's home district. Pro-immigrant activists interrupted the news conference to "object to the framework of an agreement that would preserve the Dream Act while increasing border security," according to NBC News. A Bay Area NBC News article notes that protesters were heard yelling multiple chants, such as, "We are immigrant youth, undocumented and unafraid!" "You're a liar!" and "Shut down ICE!" ICE stands for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Here is footage taken by NBC's Bay Area news team of activists chanting many things, but "Lock her up!" is not one of the chants heard.
"You're a liar!:" 'Dreamers' confront Pelosi over negotiations with Trump over DACA https://t.co/vng0UfBFUD pic.twitter.com/GjohsVfCvu
-- NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) September 18, 2017
Here is more footage posted by Sam Brock, a correspondent for NBC News, of activists shouting, "We demand to be heard ... we are not your bargaining chip."
Dreamers confront Min. Leader @NancyPelosi at event abt negotiations w/ Trump. "We demand to be heard...we are not your bargaining chip." pic.twitter.com/TTMVO1IYHD
-- Sam Brock (@SamBrockNBC) September 18, 2017
We have emailed Pelosi's team and will update this story with any relevant information if we receive a response.
