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WATCH: Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
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WATCH: Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
As Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem talked about the need to apply constitutional rights to all citizens in a Thursday press conference, Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), ostensibly an unannounced guest, approached the podium.
“I’m Sen. Alex Padilla,” he is seen stating. “I have questions for the secretary.”
In a statement, DHS falsely accused Padilla of failing to identify himself. (He can be heard in the video doing just that.)
The altercation comes amid a chilling use of law enforcement to arrest Democrats and elected officials peacefully protesting the administration’s immigration crackdown. Just this week, Democratic Representative LaMonica McIver of New Jersey was indicted on three counts after her protest outside an ICE facility last month.
The unbridled willingness to punish elected officials, through forceful removal and criminal apprehension, marks a key escalation point in the Trump administration’s embrace of blatantly authoritarian tendencies, as they seek to crush dissent, peaceful or not. And it carries the tacit approval of the president. “If there’s any protester that wants to come out, they will be met with very big force,” Trump said this week in advance of his military-birthday parade in DC this weekend.
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