23-Year-Old Nigerian Intruder Arrested For Scaling White House Fence

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Jumper: Adesanya showed off his physique on Instagram and was a track runner for Stevenson, though according to his father he does not attend the school at this time

A Nigerian man Dominic Adesanya, 23, man jumped the White House fence and ran onto the North Lawn before being subdued last night. The Bel Air, Maryland-based man stood on the North Lawn around 7.16pm, gesturing and lifting his shirt, before being taken down by K-9 units and subdued by the Secret Service. On the lawn, Adesanya kicked a Secret Service K-9 unit that ran at him before another dog wrestled him to the ground and he was taken into custody. ‘Dogs got him,’ a spokesperson for the Secret Service told Reuters after the incident. The White House was put on lockdown for a little over an hour but was not evacuated. Adesanya’s last post to Instagram on Tuesday (above) showed an I Voted sticker captioned ‘Voted for this B #ImpeachObama.’ See more photos of the incident after the break

Jumper: The man got inside the White House fence and stood on the North Lawn gesturing and lifting up his shirt (brightened to show detail)

Struggle: The White House fence jumper kicked a service dog that ran at him and then struggled with another on the lawn before being brought down (brightened to show detail)

Subdued: The man punched a USSS K-9 unit as it tried to knock him to the ground and was transported to the hospital, though it was not clear what the injuries were (brightened to show detail)