Padilla condemns handcuffing: ‘Imagine what they’re doing’ to migrants

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) condemned the Trump medication for cracking down connected his escaped code rights aft helium was removed from a property conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and handcuffed.

Footage from the incident shows Padilla identifying himself arsenic a legislator and pushing guardant and saying helium wished to inquire a question, lone to beryllium pushed backmost by security, thrown done treble doors, and past forced to the level and handcuffed.

“At 1 constituent I had a question. And fto maine emphasize, conscionable stress the close for radical to peacefully protestation and to basal up for their First Amendment rights, for our cardinal rights. I was determination peacefully. At 1 constituent I had a question, and truthful I began to inquire a question,” helium said astatine his ain property league aft the incident.

“I was astir instantly forcibly removed from the room. I was forced to the ground, and I was handcuffed.” 

Padilla said that though helium was handcuffed, helium was not arrested oregon detained.

At that point, helium became emotional.

“I volition accidental this: If this is however this medication responds to a legislator with a question, I tin lone ideate what they’re doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to time laborers retired successful the Los Angeles assemblage and passim California and passim the country,” helium said.

“We volition clasp this medication accountable.”