Sen. Alex Padilla handcuffed after forced removal from DHS press conference

Police enactment Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., successful handcuffs aft forcibly removing him from a property league being held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem successful Los Angeles connected Thursday.

Padilla had entered the country and interrupted Noem arsenic she was speaking astir her department's plans to proceed deportation efforts successful California, adjacent arsenic the Trump administration's caller migration enforcement operations person stirred a question of protests.

Padilla's bureau said successful a connection aft the incidental that helium is not presently being detained.

Video shared with NBC News' Jacob Soboroff by Padilla's unit shows 2 officers pulling the legislator by the arms aft helium enters the room.

"I americium Senator Alex Padilla," helium says arsenic the officers propulsion him toward an exit and helium pushes backmost with his body, the video shows.

"I person questions for the secretary, due to the fact that the information of the substance is, a fractional a twelve convulsive criminals that you're rotating connected your, connected your," Padilla says earlier being overwhelmed by aggregate officers and shoved retired of the room.

The video shows Padilla is past moved to a hallway wherever 3 officers enactment him connected his knees, propulsion him onto his tummy and bid him to enactment his hands down his backmost earlier handcuffing him.

A dependable is past heard connected the video saying that nary signaling is allowed successful the hallway.

"Senator Padilla is presently successful Los Angeles exercising his work to execute Congressional oversight of the national government's operations successful Los Angeles and crossed California," the connection from Padilla's bureau said.

"He was successful the national gathering to person a briefing with General Guillot and was listening to Secretary Noem's property conference. He tried to inquire the Secretary a question, and was forcibly removed by national agents, forced to the crushed and handcuffed. He is not presently detained, and we are moving to get further information."

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