US Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla was forcefully removed from a press conference in Los Angeles Thursday and coerced to the ground after attempting to ask Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a question.
“I was there peacefully,” Padilla said in his first public remarks shortly following the incident. “At one point I had a question, and so I began to ask a question. 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.”
Noem said the US Secret Service “thought he was an attacker and officers acted appropriately.”
“I wish that he would have reached out and identified himself and let us know who he was and that he wanted to talk. His approach was something that I don’t think was appropriate,” she said.
Video of the incident shows the senator identifying himself as officers grabbed him and pushed him toward a door.
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