VIDEO TENSIONS IN LOS Angeles: US senator, forced, put to the ground and handcuffed, after trying to ask questions at the press conference of the internal security

Alex Padilla, a Democratic senator from California and a vocal critic of the Trump administration's immigration policies, has been forced from a press conference on Thursday by Kristi Noem, a secretary for internal security in Los Angeles, The Guardian, Politico and NBC News.

The Democrat Senator was then forced to sit down and handcuffed.

In the video images with the incident, which has gone viral on social networks, Padilla is immobilized and removed from the room by several men.

“I am Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,” he heard saying Padilla, while struggling to pass the men who remove him from the room.

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He is also heard, saying, “Take your hands off me!”

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In a statement issued by Padilla's press office, his team transmitted: “Senator Padilla is currently in Los Angeles, exercising his supervision of the operations of the federal government in Los Angeles and throughout California. He was in the federal building to attend a meeting with General Guillot. A question of the secretary and was forced by the federal agents, thrown to the ground and handcuffed.

Padilla is a high -ranking member of judicial subcommittee for immigration, citizenship and border safety.

Asked about the senator's removal, the head of the DHS (US Department of Internal Security – US Department of Homeland Security), Kristi Noem said he would meet him after the press conference.

“When I leave here, I will look for him, I will visit him and find out what his concerns were. I think everyone in America would agree that it was not an adequate gesture, that if you wanted to have a civilized discussion, especially as a leader, a civil servant, you should have tried to establish a dialogue.”

A Fox News reporter, who would have witnessed the removal of Padilla, said he was “slammed and handcuffed by FBI police” before being “escorted to the hall” and “temporarily retained”.

Additional images, filmed by a NBC reporter, shows several policemen who keep immobilized Padilla.

Democratic officials were shocked by what the leader of the Senate minority described as a “brutality” against an American senator in the exercise.

The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, cataloged Padilla “one of the most decent people”, and then added: “It is scandalous, dictatorial and shameful. Trump and his shock troops are out of control. This must cease immediately.”

Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, wrote on X that “watching this video record caused me nausea-the mistreating of a Senator of the United States, Senator Padilla. We need immediate answers to what the hell happened.”

Jimmy Gomez, who represents California in the US Congress, wrote on the social network X: “It is not only shocking, it is a threat to the rule of law and democratic responsibility. Senator Padilla supervises the violation of the law and Trump's violations (the rule of law (the rule of law, no. to anyone. “

Tina Smith, a senator from Minnesota, said: “It's disgusting. If this is how he treats Alex Padilla, a US senator, how do you think they will treat you?”.

And Kamala Harris, the candidate of the Democrats in the race against Trump for the US Presidency, reacted harshly. “The American Senator Alex Padilla represents millions of Californians who demand answers to the actions of this administration in southern California. It is an abuse of shameful and shocking power,” she wrote, in a message on X.

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– Kamala Harris (@kamalarris) June 12, 2025

DHS defends the removal of Padilla, saying that he chose the “respectful political theater”

The Department for Internal Security (DHS) subsequently transmitted, in a statement, that the law enforcement “acted properly” when they forced Senator Alex Padilla from the Los Angeles press conference.

“Senator Padilla chose the political theater without respect and interrupted a press conference without identifying and without carrying the Senate security badge, while it was over the Secretary Noem,” said DHS, in a post on the X. “Mr. Padilla I was repeatedly asked to withdraw.

“Secret Service thought he was an attacker, and the officers acted properly,” the department added.

DHS said that Noem and Padilla met for 15 minutes after the incident.