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Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla is forcefully removed from Noem’s news conference and handcuffed

Do you mean rules about not charging at the podium and creating a disruption?

Do you have an incident that you are referring to?
Being generally disruptive yes. Creating a scene as we say.
 
During this press conference, before the Senator was assaulted, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, said Trump's military will remain in Los Angeles in order to, "liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that the governor and the mayor have placed on this country"

The military, the military??? The governor and the mayor were duly elected by the citizens of California and Los Angeles. It's up to voters, not the military to decide who they want to be governed by, socialists
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or anyone else.

You couldn't find a more classic example of an autocrat's misuse of his military...
You’re joking. Did she really say that? Did the address the general standard, adhered to for several decades now, that troops don’t show til locals ask for help or are at the very least consulted. Or the Posse Comitatus thing?
Were the Gov and Mayor notified before troops were dispatched?

Anyway, it’s hard to evaluate this incident from the clip(s) provided. One would have to see the whole episode to judge.
 
They werern't. They were enforce protocol rules and disturbing a press conference rules...




What that shows is that the senator was not the one causing the disturbance, it was the people who didn't identify as law enforcement that made the kerfuffle.
 
No. Getting arrested for barging in and heading to the podium,
Class A felony.

interrupting a press conference
Deserves a life sentence.

and then ignoring security's commands to stop
A US Senator has no right to attend a DHS press conference.

and then he resisted being removed
The US Senator was a threat.

and did not ID himself until they removed him from the room.
He has a fake ID.


There's nothing fascist about arresting a US Senator in his own state, for performing his oversight duties. Nothing at all. There is nothing fascist about US troops on city streets. Tank parades. Nothing fascist at all. Demonizing an other. Attacking intellectualism. Threating lawyers. Arresting opposition party US Senators. Nope. Not fascist.
 
Barging is not what happened. The reporters in the room said he stepped forward and interrupted. Charging or barging isn't in that video.

That is debatable. One thing that is not is that he physically resisted security

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A United States Senator was forcibly "removed" from a press conference held by a member of the current Administration.

No, he wasn’t a senator, he was a political activist crashing a news conference who thought his moment had arrived.
 
Class A felony.


Deserves a life sentence.


A US Senator has no right to attend a DHS press conference.


The US Senator was a threat.


He has a fake ID.


There's nothing fascist about arresting a US Senator in his own state, for performing his oversight duties. Nothing at all. There is nothing fascist about US troops on city streets. Tank parades. Nothing fascist at all. Demonizing an other. Attacking intellectualism. Threating lawyers. Arresting opposition party US Senators. Nope. Not fascist.

No context to any of them plus some strange comical attempt. This is essentially an unhinged post. Sorry.


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"A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said that Padilla “chose disrespectful political theater and interrupted a live press conference without identifying himself or having his Senate security pin on as he lunged toward Secretary Noem.”

She said Padilla was told to back away and didn’t comply with officers’ commands, and that Secret Service officers “thought he was an attacker and officers acted appropriately.”


Nobody is above the law. Right, Democrats? ☺️
LOL.....What projection! Noem and her minions are the ones who "chose political theater" with their decision to manhandle a US Senator who correctly wanted to know what was going on in an Executive Branch press conference, in the Senator's home state, about DHS, NG, and active military activities in Los Angeles.

That the US Senator from that state asked a question - at a news conference - is to be expected.

That the Federal Government's reaction was to rough him up on live TV is...breathtaking. And all too reminiscent of Brown Shirt goons' assaulting Hitler's opposition.
 
Being generally disruptive yes. Creating a scene as we say.

Do you have an example so that I can see what kind of disruption you are talking about? There are rules during conferences and assemblies. Interrupting them should get warnings or reminders and refusing to adhere should result in removal. Alex interrupted and refused to adhere.

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Okay, I suppose, if the next time Boebert and MTG cause a scene they can be shackled.

Nazi shit.

They can be and they should be. Any Democratic candidate for President for 2028 needs to run on treating Republicans with the same level of ruthless viciousness.

The precedent has been set. Let there be no more abstemiousness or return to civility politics. You cannot be civilized with barbarians who look at your attempts at decorum as contemptible weakness.
 
LOL.....What projection! Noem and her minions are the ones who "chose political theater" with their decision to manhandle a US Senator who correctly wanted to know what was going on in an Executive Branch press conference, in the Senator's home state, about DHS, NG, and active military activities in Los Angeles.

That the US Senator from that state asked a question - at a news conference - is to be expected.

That the Federal Government's reaction was to rough him up on live TV is...breathtaking. And all too reminiscent of Brown Shirt goons' assaulting Hitler's opposition.
That California officials and elected representatives would have a keen interest in this presser about trump's troops' activities in Los Angeles is to be expected.

That trump's reaction would be a public exhibition of what he does to those who ask inconvenient questions is extremely troubling and should shock and alarm all Americans.
 
Do you have an example so that I can see what kind of disruption you are talking about? There are rules during conferences and assemblies. Interrupting them should get warnings or reminders and refusing to adhere should result in removal. Alex interrupted and refused to adhere.

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lol you literally replied to the exact example. To help you the original question I asked is if these rules should be applied to the state of the union.
 
LOL.....What projection! Noem and her minions are the ones who "chose political theater" with their decision to manhandle a US Senator who correctly wanted to know what was going on in an Executive Branch press conference, in the Senator's home state, about DHS, NG, and active military activities in Los Angeles.

That the US Senator from that state asked a question - at a news conference - is to be expected.

That the Federal Government's reaction was to rough him up on live TV is...breathtaking. And all too reminiscent of Brown Shirt goons' assaulting Hitler's opposition.
A competent Cabinet member would have calmly addressed Padilla's questions professionally and honestly. Then she would have had the upper hand.

But this is Kristi Noem. Someone who shoots her dog is lightyears from calm.
 
Death to the American state.

No. Eye for an eye won't work. The radical right would turn that into a bloodbath.

Time to pull out the MLK and Gandhi playbooks.
 
You sure about that? They put him in handcuffs and whined about it being filmed at the end.

Just because someone is put in handcuffs doesn’t mean they’re under arrest. They could just be detained. If there was whining it’s probably related to the optics of it. It will get played up, which was probably what he wanted in the first place. Apparently, he wasn’t wearing the proper credential. Why would be have been permitted to enter a press conference for the Secretary of Homeland Security without that? If he didn’t and was just permitted to enter based on his status as a senator, did he at least have a senate pin visible? If not, why not? Something stinks jere. 🤷‍♂️
 
There's nothing fascist about arresting a US Senator in his own state

Correct.

for performing his oversight duties. Nothing at all.

His oversight duties include interrupting news conferences? Source please...

There is nothing fascist about US troops on city streets.

Correct. In fact, a Judge is going to rule on that later today. Judicial checking the Executive. The exact opposite of fascism.

Tank parades. Nothing fascist at all.

Is France fascist? England? Singapore?


Demonizing an other. Attacking intellectualism.

 
No. Eye for an eye won't work. The radical right would turn that into a bloodbath.

Time to pull out the MLK and Gandhi playbooks.
My brotha we been doing that for 5 years now. I mean exactly that, death to the American state. Give it no authority over you en masse.
 
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.

You think interupting a press conference is a crime?

Bloody hell, no wonder the US has such a huge prison population.
 
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