American Senator Alex Padilla, Democrat, was reportedly handcuffed to the ground, and according to Reuters report, security was removed to try to ask the internal security Minister Kristi Noem in Los Angeles.
Noem was in Los Angeles to deal with the ongoing protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, which even recorded the deployment of the US National Guard in Democratically.
“I am Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,” Padilla quoted as he said during a press conference where the secretary of DHS discussed the protests in Los Angeles over the immigration policy of President Donald Trump.
Padilla, according to Reuters, was pushed into the country by security and then removed from the venue of the press conference. “Hands away,” she heard Padilla and said before some men pushed him out of the room. The video that emerged online showed that Padilla was accompanied by agents from the venue.
According to San Francisco Chronicle, just before Senator Alex Padilla tried to speak at his press conference on Thursday, the Minister of Inner Security Kristi Noem spoke of the intervention of Trump’s administration against immigration and protests in LA: “We do not leave.”
Social media is currently flooded with reactions to the incident, with some supportive fallen and freedom of expression, while some claim to have crossed the border.
The user has written: “Why Senator Alex Padilla uses so much body weight to resist the officers who are there to promote peace proceedings? There are no more diplomatic ways to hear the American senator than pushing on the front and center of such a assembly?”
“Mr. Padilla was repeatedly said to retreat and not fulfill the repeated orders of officers.
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