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    WATCH: Media Debunks Democrat Lies, Reveals Why Agents Were Right to Cuff and Subdue Raging Democrat Senator

    By J.C. SosinJune 15, 2025Updated:June 15, 2025
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    Democrats have tried and failed to defend the disruptive antics of Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA), who derailed a Department of Homeland Security news conference and ended up getting forcibly removed after being thrown to the ground and put in handcuffs.

    For context, Sen. Padilla was removed from a DHS news conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on June 12, 2025, after the senator disrupted the conference by shouting and interrupting Secretary Noem. After the incident, CNN security correspondent Alex Campbell weighed in, saying that the senator’s body language was enough to justify security guards using force to remove him from the room, despite criticism from Democrats.

    In an interview with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins, Campbell explained that while the media was looking at Sen. Padilla’s removal as “one incident,” the reality, from a law enforcement perspective, was “three separate incidents that happened within a short period of time,” the security correspondent explained.

    Continuing, Campbell told Collins, “First, you have the DHS secretary who is addressing the press. This was not a Q&A period, and she was interrupted… by someone who was speaking very loudly, and so her security detail confronts what we now know to be the senator. At that point, he is going to be escorted out. You can’t interrupt something like that, something that’s already in progress.”

    Next, Campbell pointed out that instead of following directions, Sen. Padilla’s body language revealed his belligerent attitude. Campbell explained, “The second incident, in my view, happens the moment as officers are trying to lead him out, he then turns and walks back towards and kind of into those agents. At that point, from a security detail perspective, we’re taking this person out against their will.”



    After the senator’s removal from the conference, he got visibly emotional during a press conference, telling the press that he had been “awaiting a scheduled briefing from federal officials” when he learned that Secretary Noem was holding a press conference nearby. The senator explained that he then “came to the press conference to hear what she had to say and to see if I could learn any new or additional information.”

    Furthermore, Sen. Padilla said that when he “had a question,” he was “almost immediately and forcibly removed from the room.” The senator, apparently attempting to defend his brash behavior, said, “Let me emphasize, just as we emphasize the right for people to peacefully protest and to stand up for their First Amendment rights—for our fundamental rights—I was there peacefully.”

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    Finally, Sen. Padilla explained that he “was not arrested” and “was not detained,” adding in a sharp critique of the Trump Adminstration, saying that if “this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question…you can only imagine what they are doing to farmers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community, throughout California, and across the country.”

    Watch Campbell’s analysis of Sen. Padilla’s behavior:

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