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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla on Thursday was forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles and handcuffed by officers as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and around the country.
Video shows a Secret Service agent on Noem’s security detail grabbing Padilla, who represents California, by his jacket and shoving him from the room as he tried to interrupt Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles.
“I’m Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,” he shouted in a halting voice.
The stunning scene of a U.S. senator being aggressively removed from a Cabinet secretary’s news conference prompted immediate outrage from his Democratic colleagues in the chamber. It comes as the Trump administration has aggressively targeted protesters in California who are demonstrating against immigration raids, including by sending in National Guard troops and Marines.
In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said Padilla “chose disrespectful political theater and interrupted a live news conference.” They claimed erroneously that Padilla did not identify himself and said Secret Service believed him to be an attacker.
“Padilla was told repeatedly to back away and did not comply with officers’ repeated commands,” the statement said, adding that “officers acted appropriately.”
Emerging afterward, Padilla said he and his colleagues have asked the department for more information on their “increasingly extreme immigration enforcement actions” and received little to no information.
“If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question … I can only imagine what they are doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers throughout the Los Angeles community, and throughout California and throughout the country,” he said.
shrug...Sen. Padilla is forcefully removed from Noem's news conference on immigration raids and handcuffed
Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California has been forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles and handcuffed by officers as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and elsewhere.apnews.com
Okay, I suppose, if the next time Boebert and MTG cause a scene they can be shackled.
Nazi shit.
So will the goons that touched him when he didn't commit a crime.shrug...
That Senator just found about FAFO.
I think we'll soon see him apologizing for his behavior.So will the goons that touched him when he didn't commit a crime.
I think we won't. I think we'll see no charges filed, and then this will be forgotten and ignored by those currently pushing it.I think we'll soon see him apologizing for his behavior.
I think we won't. I think we'll see no charges filed, and this will be forgotten and ignored by those currently pushing it.
The US Senator was arrested for entering a press conference and asking a question. Only a fascist considers that FA. Putin arrests opposing voices. There is no free speech in North Korea. This is Nazi shit. In your face Nazi shit.shrug...
That Senator just found out about FAFO.
You know what? The press knows there is a proper way to get questions asked in a press conference. The way that idiot Senator did it is not the way.The US Senator was arrested for entering a press conference and asking a question.
And if not, it's a plane ride. Or some old-fashioned poisoning. Nazi shit. Commie shit. Dictator shit. Anti-American domestic enemy shit.I think we'll soon see him apologizing for his behavior.
Yeah, I know this is Nazi shit. I also know you support it. That's all I need to know.You know what?
getting arrested for not asking properly a question?You know what? The press knows there is a proper way to get questions asked in a press conference. The way that idiot Senator did it is not the way.
FAFO
Musta been a really hard question!The US Senator was arrested for entering a press conference and asking a question. Only a fascist considers that FA. Putin arrests opposing voices. There is no free speech in North Korea. This is Nazi shit. In your face Nazi shit.
So will the goons that touched him when he didn't commit a crime.
"Interrupting" sounds like "speech". Speech isn't illegal. The proper legal way to remove a disruptive individual is to have an agent of the venue ask them to leave, and if they refuse, then they can be arrested. That's it.He was interrupting the Secretary and creating a disruption by inserting himself into her press conference. I’m sure somewhere in Title 18 of the United States Code that’s a crime, although I haven’t heard that he’s been charged with one. Probably won’t be.
Are you threatening an FBI agent?So will the goons that touched him when he didn't commit a crime.
getting arrested for not asking properly a question?
police state approves.
trump people are such snowflakes.
The left doesn’t like women speaking so they a man in to scream over her.He wasn’t arrested. He was kicked out of her press conference for being a dick, then detained for a short period.
Her intended audience has been conditioned for decades to move from belief to belief on rivers of rage and dopamine.What is obvious is that Secy Gnome lied. She said the Senator didn’t identify himself. The video shows otherwise.
This is how Trump envisioned taking over 1/6/20.shrug...
That Senator just found out about FAFO.
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