After law enforcement assaulted Senator Alex Padilla, we know: we are the only guardrails. He will appear at the “king” meeting on Saturday.
U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla speaks with reporters outside the Wilshire Federal Building after being forced to remove Los Angeles’ Homeland Security Department Christie Noem from a press conference held on June 12, 2025.
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I felt sick watching California Sen. Alex Padilla get attacked by law enforcement on Thursday afternoon. Seeing the policeman working on the unarmed brown man, he pushed him to the ground and demanded that he put his hand behind his back, allowing them to cuff him. “If you let me put my hand behind my back,” he replied to the officer holding his arm. I’ve seen this before. If it happened on the streets of the city, it would almost certainly not have ended for Padilla either.
We get mostly attention from these videos of unarmed blacks and brown men mostly humiliated, pushed against the ground, handcuffed and often forced in front of their loved ones. This was in the federal building in Los Angeles, viewed by national media. It wasn’t easy to see. It’s trauma. I kept feeling like these thugs attacking Padilla had decided to hurt him. Maybe they did. He didn’t say when he spoke to the media.
“If this is how DHS responds to senators with questions, then I can only imagine what they’re doing to farm workers, cooks and day workers across the Los Angeles community, across California, and across the country,” Padilla told the media in a simple statement. He shed tears while talking about Trump’s victims.
If puppy killer Christy Norm thought he might feel regret, the DHS secretary immediately went to Fox and lied. She said Padilla didn’t identify herself – he did – and he “exploded” and “pulled” onto the podium. That brown brute!
Spinless House Speaker Mike Johnson said Congress should “denounce” Padilla for his uppity invasion of Miss Christie’s space.
All of us I watched the videoa liar.
“I’m Senator Alex Padilla,” he said. “The secretary has a question,” her thug immediately began grabbing him with his jacket and shoved him towards the door. “The fact in question is that she has half a dozen violent criminals in the rotation,” Padilla said the administration took place, referring to the mugshot of the same “criminal” immigrants. He then cried, “Hands Off!” Padilla stopped resisting. They pushed him onto the floor anyway.
Noem is a criminal. She warned her just before Padilla interrupted her. “We haven’t left. We’re staying here to free the city from what this governor and this mayor put in this country and what they tried to insert into the city.” Are you trying to overturn the officially elected leader? Do you want to stage a California coup?
Remember, federal prosecutors charged New Jersey representative Lamonica McQuiver this week after a brawl at an ice detention center where only violent people came from law enforcement. Last month, a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge was arrested in court and charged with obstructing an immigration officer last month. Last Friday, service employee, United Nations California Chairman David Fuerta was arrested after a non-violent protest against an immigrant attack in Los Angeles. This week, President Trump speculated about arresting California Gov. Gavin Newsom (ward-sick Mike Johnson said Newsom should simply be “tar and feathers”).
Padilla’s attack was captured in a dramatic video, but so far it has not fully convened rage. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer expressed his rage, but was simply called “.investigation. “Whether the senator said, “Mom, me?”, Senator Schumer, what should we investigate? Before we ask his question, we see it all for ourselves (I’m trying to do something Schumer understands). House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said“Anyone who assaulted a senator should be held accountable.” I’m glad he uses the word “attack,” but all the attackers are caught up in camera. And what does “accountability” mean?
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Padilla He later told MSNBC He was actually in the building when he heard about Noem’s press conference, where he was in fact in the building for a meeting on federal invasion with Los Angeles and federal authorities. He said he was escorted to the room by FBI and Secret Service officials. “I know what happens where I grew up and against law enforcement,” he said. Padilla says that she finally met Noem for a short time, but she didn’t answer his questions. Or apologise. He urged Americans to take part in the “No Kings” rally on Saturday.
Again, it appears that the Democratic leader hasn’t seen it in that moment, with a few exceptions, including Padilla. Gov. Gavin Newsom met over the past few days at the moment when he stood up to Trump firmly and eloquently despite his trance issues, his strange Manosphere Course Podcast, and his calling Chris Van Hollen’s trip to visit his calling Kilmer Abrego Garcia Garcia “Distraction”. I hope Newsom doesn’t say that today.
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Federal Judge Charles Breyer has received a legitimate boost Domination Trump, who made California’s National Guard federal government, said that he was “illegal, both of which exceeded the scope of statutory authorities and violated the 10th amendment of the US Constitution,” and the administration “must return control of the California State Guard to the governor of California” immediately appealed, and the US Court of Appeals in the 9th Circuit maintained Breyer’s ruling while reviewing the case and not carrying out it.
but Breyer used language That should encourage more Americans to meet Saturday’s “No Kings” rally nationwide. “That’s the difference between the constitutional government and King George,” Breyer said. “It’s not that a leader can simply say something and that will become it. That’s not where we live. … This country was established in response to the monarch.”
Breyer’s ruling stayed temporarily, but he is correct.