DOJ won't say whether Dem senator will face charges after derailing Noem press conference

It’s chartless if Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., volition look national charges from the Department of Justice aft helium interrupted a property league that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was holding successful Los Angeles connected June 12.

"No remark here," a DOJ spokesperson told Fox News Digital successful an email connected Wednesday day erstwhile asked if the section plans to record charges against the Democratic senator.  

"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," Homeland Security tweeted aft the incident. [Secret Service] thought helium was an attacker and officers acted appropriately."

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 Sen. Alex Padilla speaks during a property league astatine the Federal Building connected Wilshire Blvd Thursday, June 12, 2025 successful Los Angeles, CA. (Luke Johnson/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Padilla was pushed retired of the country by the Secret Service and concisely arrested aft trying to inquire the caput a question successful the mediate of her remarks.

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While helium was wearing a garment marked "United States Senate" and identified himself by name, helium was not wearing his information pin.

"I was forced to the ground," helium said successful a Senate level code astir the incident, saying that officers would not reply wherefore helium was being detained.

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U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla is pushed retired of the country arsenic Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem holds a quality league regarding the caller protests successful Los Angeles connected Thursday, June 12, 2025. (Etienne Laurent/AP Photo)

"I commune you ne'er person a infinitesimal similar this," helium added. On Tuesday, the Senate Democratic Caucus wrote a missive to Noem criticizing however instrumentality enforcement handled the situation.

Despite the incident, Padilla and Noem ended up holding a gathering afterward, which Padilla’s bureau described arsenic "civil," and Noem described arsenic "cordial" adjacent though determination were beardown disagreements betwixt the two.

The legislator told CNN’s "State of the Union" that helium was escorted into the country by the National Guard and the FBI, arsenic helium was taking different gathering successful the aforesaid gathering wherever Noem held her property conference.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem holds a quality league regarding the caller protests successful Los Angeles connected Thursday, June 12, 2025. (Etienne Laurent/AP Photo)

The caput was successful Los Angeles to code the anti-ICE protests and riots that unfolded successful the metropolis arsenic national authorities conducted migration enforcement efforts successful the region. Fox News Digital reached retired to Padilla's bureau to spot if helium had been contacted by the DOJ. 

However, Padilla is acold from the lone 1 who has made waves for protesting ICE and DHS. Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., was arraigned successful national tribunal connected Wednesday for allegedly "forcibility impeding and interfering with national officers" during a protestation extracurricular the Delaney Hall Federal Immigration Facility successful Newark connected May 9. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was besides arrested astatine the May 9 protestation connected a trespassing complaint that was aboriginal dropped.

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"I pleaded not blameworthy due to the fact that I'm not guilty. We volition combat this," McIver said extracurricular the courthouse.

In New York City, comptroller and Democratic mayoral campaigner Brad Lander was arrested and past released for allegedly "assaulting instrumentality enforcement and impeding a national officer," DHS said past week. He was holding onto an idiosyncratic that migration tribunal authorities were trying to instrumentality into custody, according to the Associated Press. 

DHS said past week that ICE agents are facing a 500% uptick successful assaults arsenic absorption to the Trump administration's migration policies continue.

Fox News' Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.