If you are actually standing in/on restricted property (private property or public property restricted to government personnel etc), you might have a number of statuses. I don't own the church we attend, or any restaurants, bars, gyms or convenience stores. Yet I enter them freely without fear of arrest. If asked to leave any of those places, I certainly would, because I know what property rights are: You can be a trespasser: if you have entered the property without legal right, and that's a tort and a crime. You can be a licensee: if you have a license to use the property You can be a tenant: if you have a tenancy agreement (sort of a license) You can be a bailee: if you are the beneficiary of a bailment concerning the property You can be an invitee: if you have been invited onto the property. If you ARE an invitee, of course, that invitation can be terminated and you can be asked to leave. If you don't, then you are trespassing. It appears the police are escorting the Shaman in such a way as one might an invitee. No one, escorted in such a > would assume he was NOT invited and not there with the permission and good intentions of the Capitol Police. Almost an Honored Guest. If they wanted to let him know he was trespassing or not under some acceptable legal status, then they could have surrounded him, handcuffed him and held him for arrest and appearance before a judge.