Democratic Sen. Padilla is forcefully removed from Noem's news conference on immigration raids and handcuffed
LOS ANGELES: 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 the California senator by his jacket and shoving him from the room as he tried to speak up during the DHS secretary's event. Padilla interrupted the news conference after Noem delivered a particularly pointed line, saying federal authorities were not going away but planned to stay and increase operations to 'liberate' the city from its 'socialist' leadership.
'I'm Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,' he shouted in a halting voice.
Scuffling with officers outside the room, he can be heard bellowing, 'Hands off!' He is later seen on his knees and then pushed to the ground and handcuffed in a hallway, with several officers atop him.
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