Pretty wild video of FBI manhandling and arresting a U.S. senator for disrupting a Department of Homeland Security press conference.

Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A. https://t.co/RLUVYP1Jsb

Jacob Soboroff

Pretty wild video of FBI manhandling and arresting a U.S. senator for disrupting a Department of Homeland Security press conference. https://x.com/jacobsoboroff/status/1933232550409089128

I work for a California State Senator and seeing one of our close neighboring Senators get detained for questioning a government-appointed official at a press conference? That’s wild 😳

Not something you’d expect to see happen to senator or in a functioning democracy 🤦🏻‍♀️

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It Make one feel so helpless, with what's going on all around the world. ♡

We randomly called his office to update on an ICE location and they told us in real time that he was being detained. We were stunned.