ICE* Secret Service And FBI Agents In Noem’s Protective Detail Are Thugs

Ansari: Padilla was just forcefully removed from the news conference being held by Noem

Burchett: He rushed the podium. He was being disruptive pic.twitter.com/QZoAuzxVyl

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 12, 2025

Alex Padilla is a US SENATOR being roughed up like a criminal by Kristi Noem and her thugs for daring to speak out against the chaos the Trump regime created.

We’re watching the death of lawful dissent in real time, people. Their authoritarian playbook demands it. Disgusting. https://t.co/QcqPS0xlrM

— @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social (@RepYvetteClarke) June 12, 2025

Right before this video, he identified himself as Senator Alex Padilla. They knew exactly who he was -- and exactly what they were doing. https://t.co/PUrFFQxAki

— Dan Koh (@dank) June 12, 2025

Padilla: I was there peacefully and at one point I had a question so I began to ask a question. I was immediately forcibly removed from the room. I was forced to the ground and handcuffed pic.twitter.com/ZsNC8opeK9

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 12, 2025

Noem: Nobody knew who he was when he came into the room creating a scene. He was removed from the room and yes, they started to put handcuffs on him when he finally identified himself and that was stopped pic.twitter.com/qDetbXp0q8

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 12, 2025

This lame-ass story doesn’t match the videos. https://t.co/CAMgETahqE

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 12, 2025

Booker: He was made to kneel before the authority of the executive… They treated a member of the United States senate violently after he identified himself, dragged him out of a room, threw him upon the ground, and put him in handcuffs pic.twitter.com/NgIIzpzXPQ

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 12, 2025

A U.S. Senator walked into a press conference in the state he represents.

He said his name.
He said his title.
He said he had questions.
Kristi Neom actually thinks Americans are going to fall for this nonsense.https://t.co/LrEJvlj7HX

— House Homeland Security Committee Democrats (@HomelandDems) June 12, 2025

Ramirez: They don’t want you recording so you don’t see how they violate due process repeatedly. This is a US Senator asking a question and in return, he is pulled, shoved down the floor, slammed to the ground pic.twitter.com/kJnbzSBv8V

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 12, 2025

Here is Senator Alex Padilla's entire full statement after being detained by Donald Trump and Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security.

Like he said, if they're doing this to a sitting Senator, imagine what they're doing to other people.

Unconscionable. pic.twitter.com/NmLVqYxtPX

— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) June 12, 2025

(Bonus points for tepeating his statement in Spanish. One imagines Stephen Miller spitting blood.)

QED. *(It was assumed ICE agents were responsible for this thuggish behavior. Such was not the case. The error was regrettable.)

Thiessen on Padilla being forced to the ground and handcuffed: This is not how a senator supposed to behave, supposed to have decorum— you wonder why there are riots in LA.. pic.twitter.com/WzQZ1EGMHC

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 12, 2025

The rot starts higher up than that.

Speaker Johnson on Senator Padilla: that behavior, at a minimum, is it rises to the level of a censure pic.twitter.com/keQpUOgFTa

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 12, 2025

No, still higher. One of the other coequal branches.