CA Sen. Alex Padilla forcibly removed after interrupting news conference by DHS Sec. Kristi Noem

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KGO) -- California Senator Alex Padilla was physically removed from a property league Thursday.

The incidental occurred astatine a national gathering successful Los Angeles during a league held by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

DHS officials said that Padilla tried to interrupt the conference. He was past detained by the Secret Service with the assistance of FBI uniformed police, who grabbed him earlier helium could scope the podium. They yet escorted him outside.

Video shows a Secret Service peculiar cause connected Noem's item grabbing Padilla by his overgarment and shoving him from the room, arsenic the legislator struggles to drawback his enactment portion identifying himself.

"I'm Sen. Alex Padilla. I person questions for the secretary," helium shouted successful a halting voice. He tries to propulsion backmost into the country erstwhile a 2nd information defender appears.

Once retired of the room, helium tin beryllium heard shouting, "Hands off!"

One video posted online shows Padilla being forced to the crushed by 3 officers and handcuffed by an serviceman wearing an FBI vest.

Padilla -- who is ranking subordinate of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee -- said helium was trying to talk retired astir ICE detaining immigrants without transgression records.

His removal sparked beardown absorption from galore governmental leaders. Gov. Gavin Newsom described the enactment arsenic "outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful."

A legislature oversight committee gathering descended into chaos aft a screaming lucifer broke out.

In the halls of Congress, a contingent of lawmakers, including South Bay Congressman Sam Liccardo, demanded a effect from House Speaker Mike Johnson.

"Hey, everybody, I'm present extracurricular the speaker's office. Speaker Johnson's inside," said Liccardo successful a societal media post.

Local assemblage leaders were besides speedy to respond.

ABC7 News spoke with Christian Arana with the Latino Community Foundation. Arana said he's shocked by everything that happened.

"We inactive unrecorded successful a democracy. This is inactive our close to talk up forcefully astir what's happening successful our state close now," Arana said.

DHS Assistant Sec. of Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said successful a statement:

Senator Padilla chose disrespectful governmental theatre and interrupted a unrecorded property league without identifying himself oregon having his Senate information pin connected arsenic helium lunged toward Secretary Noem.

Mr. Padilla was told repeatedly to backmost distant and did not comply with officers' repeated commands. @SecretService thought helium was an attacker and officers acted appropriately.

Noem said she didn't cognize who Padilla was astatine the clip of the incident.

Afterward, she told reporters she had a speech with Padilla and adjacent swapped numbers with him pursuing the event.

"I privation that helium would person reached retired and identified himself and fto america cognize who helium was and that helium wanted to talk. His attack was thing that I don't deliberation was due astatine all," Noem said.

In a property conference, Padilla said that helium was astatine the national gathering successful Los Angeles for a scheduled briefing, erstwhile helium heard that Noem was holding a property league "a mates of doors down the hall."

VIDEO: California Sen. Alex Padilla speaks aft being forcibly removed from Noem property conference

"I was determination peacefully. At 1 constituent I had a question, and truthful I began to inquire a question. I was astir instantly forcibly removed from the room. I was forced to the ground, and I was handcuffed. I was not arrested. I was not detained," Padilla said. "If this is however this medication responds to a legislator with a question, if this is however the Department of Homeland Security responds to a legislator with a question, you tin lone ideate what they're doing to workplace workers, to cooks to time laborers retired successful the Los Angeles assemblage and passim California and passim the country."

Padilla didn't instrumentality immoderate questions aft archetypal addressing the media Thursday.

But helium emphasized for those readying to protestation successful the coming days to stay peaceful and cull each forms of violence.

"We volition clasp this medication accountable," helium said.

On Thursday evening, Rep. Eric Swalwell held a virtual property league with members of the media.

"We present person a huffy king who volition apprehension anyone who descends," Swalwell said.

ABC7 News asked if Senator Padilla's actions were 'political grandstanding.'

"Senator Padilla was doing his occupation successful his ain bureau building," Swalwell said. "He has an work to standup for his constituents who are being pulled retired of their communities by these faceless masked agents and if Secretary Noem wasn't going to reply his question, helium had a close to elevate his measurement and his code and request an answer."

Rep. Zoe Lofgren called the incidental outrageous.

"This is not the end, I'm afraid, but the opening of the outrageous lawless enactment being undertaken by this medication and the maltreatment of the radical of California," Lofgren said.

Many expect this incidental volition gully adjacent much radical to this weekend's "No Kings" protests.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.