Reporter Stephen Gutowski broke this story on Friday at the Free
Beacon. Leyla Pirnie is a grad student at Harvard who lives in an
apartment with several roommates. This is a situation where the need to
share the cost of an apartment put a group of people who didn’t already
know each other well together. So one weekend, while Pirnie was out of
the apartment, her roommates decided to search her room without her
permission to see if she had any guns. When they found she did have
some, they held a meeting and then wrote a
letter to the landlord, Dave
Lewis of Avid Management, demanding his intervention. Lewis took the
side of the other roommates and suggested it would be best if Pirnie
moved out as she was preparing for finals. From the
Free Beacon:
Pirnie said she feels her roommates violated her privacy and now they and her landlord are trying to violate her rights.
“A few weeks ago, I came back to my apartment from a weekend trip and
was confronted by one of my roommates who asked if I had guns in the
house,” she told the Free Beacon. “After being told far too many lies to
count, my roommates finally admitted that they searched my closet,
under my bed, and all of my drawers in pursuit of finding my guns.”
While she was given several different explanations for why the
roommates entered and searched her room, the 24-year-old said she felt
her political beliefs and where she is from played a significant role in
the roommates’ actions.
“When I asked them why they were in my room to begin with, they each
came up with completely contradicting stories (none of which made any
sense), but one comment struck me in particular: ‘We saw that you had a
MAGA hat and come on, you’re from Alabama… so we just kind of assumed
that you had something,'” she said. “I asked why they didn’t just call
me and ask me before intruding. One of the girls responded that fear
took over her body and she felt compelled to search my room until she
found proof… I cannot make this up.”
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