Man arrested after jumping White House fence, causing lockdown

A 23-year-old Maryland man was in custody Wednesday night after he climbed over the White House fence and attempted to run towards the building. Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary said a man he identified as Dominic Adesanya of Bel Air, Maryland, climbed the north fence line at about 7:16 p.m. Video of the incident recorded by TV news cameras shows a man in white shorts on the lawn just inside the fence. The video shows that man lifting his shirt as if to show that he is unarmed. He is then seen kicking and punching two Secret Service dogs that were released on him, causing the dogs minor injuries. The incident came about a month after a previous White House fence jumper sprinted across the same lawn, past armed uniformed agents and entered the mansion before he was taken into custody.

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