Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, was engaging in “political theater” when he loudly interrupted her news conference Thursday in Los Angeles and lunged toward the podium.
“We were conducting a press conference to update everyone on the enforcement actions that are ongoing to bring peace to the city of Los Angeles,” Noem told Fox News.
“This man burst into the room, started lunging toward the podium, interrupting me, and elevating his voice, and was stopped,” she recounted.
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Video shared by an NBC News reporter showed Padilla being removed from the room where the conference was taking place and later being handcuffed by what appeared to be DHS officers.
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