
US senator says he was attempting to ask a question at DHS event when he was forcefully removed, handcuffed
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US Sen. Alex Padilla of California said he had been attempting to ask a question when he was forcefully removed from a press conference held by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles Thursday.
US Sen. Alex Padilla of California said he had been attempting to ask a question when he was forcefully removed from a press conference held by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles Thursday. “I was there peacefully. At one point I had a question, and so I began to ask a question,” Padilla said in his first public remarks following the incident. “I was almost immediately forcibly removed from the room. I was forced to the ground, and I was handcuffed. I was not arrested. I was not detained.” He continued: “If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, if this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine, what they’re doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country.” The senator also urged people protesting the Trump administration’s enforcement actions to do so peacefully. This story is breaking and will be updated.

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