Liberal Rep. Maxine Waters reportedly told a journalist not to report on a story involving her telling homeless people to “go home” during an event she attended near a homeless encampment in Los Angeles.

The LA event reportedly took a left turn when hundreds of homeless people showed up due to inaccurate social media reports that Section 8 housing vouchers were being distributed.

Fox News reports:

At one point, when it was clear that staff at the event were being overwhelmed, Waters reportedly said to the crowd, “I want everybody to go home.”

Waters’ comment struck a nerve with the crowd who reportedly began yelling back at the Congresswoman.

“We don’t got no home, that’s why we’re here!” one member of the crowd reportedly said back. “What home we gonna go to?”

Watters then grew frustrated and said, “Excuse me, there’s nobody in Washington who works for their people any f— harder than I do. I don’t want to hear this. No, no, no.”

While Waters’ tone-deaf comment had already struck a nerve with the crowd her true crime came later when she attempted to dissuade a journalist from reporting on the embarrassing incident. When A Los Angeles Times reporter contacted Waters about the event, the Democrat reportedly tried to deter the paper from reporting the story.

“You’ll hurt yourself and the community trying to put this together without background,” she told reporter Connor Sheets, according to the Los Angeles Times. “I don’t want you to start trying to write it, you won’t understand it.”