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U.S. Senator Alex Padilla Forcibly Removed and Arrested For Heckling DHS Secretary Kristi Noem During Press Briefing (VIDEO)

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Unfortunately people lie, say all kinds of things.
Again, this was at the federal building that is currently surrounded by national guard and police up the wazoo. The Senator wouldn’t be in the building at all if he were any kind of threat to anyone there. I know you guys aren’t dumb enough to actually believe this lame excuse from DHS that Sen Padilla was posing any kind of threat to Secretary Noem so why do you insist?
 
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Again, this was at the federal building that is currently surrounded by national guard and police up the wazoo. The Senator wouldn’t be in the building at all if he were any kind of threat to anyone there. I know you guys aren’t dumb enough to actually believe this lame excuse from DHS that Sen Padilla was posing any kind of threat to Secretary Noem so why do you insist?
First he made a quick move and got pretty close to her. The Secret Service agents are there to protect her. Once stopped he was non-cooperative and pushed back against security--they were right to take him down and handcuff him. Having an attitude that outside security would never have let a threatening person get that far would get a security person fired from their job.
 
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First he made a quick move and got pretty close to her. The Secret Service agents are there to protect her.

Secret Service agents would know the U.S. Senator from California. They were not Secret Service.
 
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They knew who was.

Senator Alex Padilla said on MSNBC that he thought his removal from a news conference Thursday was “excessive” and “an overreaction.” He had been escorted into the briefing room by federal agents, Padilla said, while he waited for a scheduled meeting with U.S. Northern Command to begin. He stood in the back, listening, until “the political rhetoric got to be too much to take,” he said. “So I spoke up.”
 
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A US Senator shouldn't act like that
We’ve been saying that about the President of the United States and you all voted for him a second time. Spare us the outrage over lack of decorum.
 
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Once again this was law enforcement simply just doing their job.

Yep, just another day in the US of A! Federal agents forcing a US Senator to the ground and hand cuffing him. His offense? Speaking out while a DHS Secretary was speaking.
 
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Secret Service agents would know the U.S. Senator from California. They were not Secret Service.
I've seen multiple videos, and I saw two Secret Service agents. The first to act that I saw put his arm out horizontally toward the approaching senator.
 
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He's a state senator. I've seen multiple videos, and I saw two Secret Service agents. The first to act that I saw put his arm out horizontally toward the approaching senator.

State Senator?


If you can't distinghish a US Senator from a State Senator, why should I believe you can identify Secret Service agents?
 
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Irrelevant.
No it’s right at the center of the whole incident. The Senator was detained for simply doing his job of oversight. He’s the one Californians elected to represent them in the Senate. She’s the outsider bringing federal agents in to terrorize his (our) community.
 
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Yep, just another day in the US of A! Federal agents forcing a US Senator to the ground and hand cuffing him. His offense? Speaking out while a DHS Secretary was speaking.
People have been hauled out of rallies, press conferences, meetings etc for aggressive unruly behavior for ages. We've all seen it happen.
 
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No it’s right at the center of the whole incident. The Senator was detained for simply doing his job of oversight. He’s the one Californians elected to represent them in the Senate. She’s the outsider bringing federal agents in to terrorize his (our) community.
Is this the first time someone has been hauled off for getting out of control at a press conference, speech, meeting, rally? Because if it is, then another major Mandela Effect event has taken place.
 
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Is this the first time someone has been hauled off for getting out of control at a press conference, speech, meeting, rally? Because if it is, then another major Mandela Effect event has taken place.
It’s the first time I’ve ever seen a US Senator treated this way by federal authorities for simply wanting some answers from another government official at a press conference. I’ll say it again, this administration is at war with the United States itself. The people, their elected representatives, the courts, our elections. Everything is under attack by this administration and some of you want to play make believe that this is all normal.

Go gaslight someone else bro. There’s nothing normal about any of this.
 
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People have been hauled out of rallies, press conferences, meetings etc for aggressive unruly behavior for ages. We've all seen it happen.

Never the in the history of our country has a US Senator been forced to te ground and handcuffed.

Stop pretending this is normal.
 
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It’s the first time I’ve ever seen a US Senator treated this way by federal authorities for simply wanting some answers from another government official at a press conference. I’ll say it again, this administration is at war with the United States itself. The people, their elected representatives, the courts, our elections. Everything is under attack by this administration and some of you want to play make believe that this is all normal.
When someone gets aggressively out of control it doesn't matter if they're a senator.
Go gaslight yourself bro. There’s nothing normal about any of this.
Conspiracy theory territory.
 
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When someone gets aggressively out of control it doesn't matter if they're a senator.
What were you watching? He came in ready to ask a question and was aggressively detained, removed and thrown down to the floor for no reason.

Maybe that’s normal to you in this police state you’ve apparently voted for but that’s not normal to me. I’ve never seen anything like this.
 
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