Protesters camped out on NC Sen. Thom Tillis’ property overnight. Here’s the latest.

Protests outside the Lake Norman home of U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis continued overnight and resulted in three trespassing citations Monday morning, police said.

The Sunrise Movement, an organization focused on stopping climate change, led a march on the North Carolina Republican’s Huntersville home Sunday afternoon, the Observer previously reported. They were protesting the lack of action by Tillis and other officials against Colonial Pipeline Co. after a 1.2-million-gallon gasoline leak in Mecklenburg County last August. The scale of the leak was dramatically underestimated for months, the Observer has reported.

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Most of the protesters Sunday chanted and beat drums in the street in front of Tillis’ house, while three risked arrest by going onto his lawn. All but a handful of the protesters left aboard a shuttle bus around 7:30 p.m.

Some protesters remained on the senator’s property overnight, with Huntersville police watching nearby, Sgt. Odette Saglimbeni told the Observer on Monday. Three were cited for trespassing when they “encroached on” the home Monday morning: Adal Rivas, 21; Alexander Brodie, 20 and Skye-Anne Tschoepe, 20.

A public records search shows two of the protesters are from the Durham area.

In an interview with the Observer, Tschoepe confirmed that the three of them approached the house Monday morning. She said they weren’t planning on entering or vandalizing it but declined to comment on what they’d planned to do.

Huntersville police also received a complaint about protesters obstructing a nearby roadway around 8 a.m. Monday, Saglimbeni said.

Ashley McDermott, a spokesperson for Sunrise Movement’s event, said that complaint couldn’t have been related to her group, which she said had protested peacefully on the side of the road.

No protesters have been arrested.

Mashoor Awad, who lives next door to Tillis, said he supports the right to protest but was “disappointed” the Sunrise Movement did so outside the senator’s home, rather than in front of his office.

“Our home is our sanctuary,” Awad said.

Sunrise North Carolina responded to similar criticism on Twitter, saying “we’ve been to his office too many times.”

“He won’t even have town halls. You think we want to be here?” the group tweeted.

Daniel Keylin, a senior adviser to Tillis, blasted the Sunrise Movement in an email to the Observer on Monday afternoon, calling it an “extremist organization” that relies on “childish tactics that attempt to disturb, harass, and intimidate the family members and neighbors of elected officials who don’t support their socialist agenda.”

Protesters have gathered outside Tillis’ house before, Awad said, but Sunday’s protest was particularly rowdy. Awad also said he didn’t think the senator’s family was home at the time, since the lights in his house never turned on.