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BREAKING: DHS thugs at Kristi Noem ICE press conference violently handcuffed Senator Alex Padilla. [1]
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Date: 2025-06-12
Senator Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, was violently placed in handcuffs by our autocratic, felonious president's DHS thugs at a Kristi Noem ICE press conference.
Trump’s DHS thugs violently handcuffed Sen. Padilla
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Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a Los Angeles press conference, underscoring the Trump administration’s accelerating use of state force to silence elected critics.
Video from multiple angles shows ICE-aligned officers shoving Padilla into a hallway, forcing him face down, and zip-tying his wrists. At the same time, he identified himself as a sitting U.S. senator.
The confrontation follows last week’s federal indictment of Rep. LaMonica McIver after she resisted an ICE arrest during a detention-center visit, revealing a pattern of targeting lawmakers of color.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and California Governor Gavin Newsom condemned the attack as “dictatorial” and demanded immediate accountability from DHS and the White House.
Noem claimed she “had no prior contact” with Padilla and promised to “follow up,” while refusing to criticize her agents’ conduct.
Civil-rights groups warn that unchecked federal policing threatens the separation of powers and chills legitimate congressional oversight amid mass-deportation protests in Los Angeles.
A multiracial democracy cannot survive when the executive branch physically assaults legislators who demand answers. Progressives insist that democratic norms be defended in the streets, the courts, and the ballot box—starting now.
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