ESPN star unleashes on 'out of control' Padilla for crashing Noem press conference

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ESPN prima Stephen A. Smith slammed Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., connected Friday aft the lawmaker disrupted Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem’s property conference, which led to him being forcibly removed and handcuffed.

"Here you person this Sen. Alex Padilla – Can Kristi Noem speak? Could you person waited till she finished to inquire your questions, to outcry your questions?" helium said connected "The Stephen A. Smith Show."

"You are a senator, right? You couldn't wait? So that was conscionable you retired of power due to the fact that you were conscionable losing it, huh. You, a United States senator, couldn't constitute yourself and fto the caput of Homeland Security decorativeness her thoughts earlier you inquire the question. Couldn't bash that, huh? Couldn't bash it, huh?" Smith added.

Stephen A. Smith slams Senator Alex Padilla

ESPN prima Stephen A. Smith slammed Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., connected Friday aft the lawmaker disrupted Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s property conference. (YouTube screenshot)

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The DHS endorsed Smith's statements connected X aft releasing a connection addressing Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass's disapproval of their handling of Padilla. 

"What @stephenasmith said," the relationship said, with the video of Smith.

DHS besides tweeted, "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.

"@SecretService thought helium was an attacker and officers acted appropriately. Secretary Noem met with Senator Padilla aft and held a 15 infinitesimal meeting."

Smith went connected to slam Padilla for "propping" himself up. 

"That's wherefore you should beryllium looking astatine Governor Wes Moore of Maryland, you should beryllium looking astatine Josh Shapiro, politician of Pennsylvania," Smith said.

"You know, the radical that don't prosecute successful this benignant of nonsense. You're talking astir propping yourself. It's each nonsense. It's each utilized arsenic a instrumentality to disagreement us."

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The Department of Homeland Security's X relationship supported Smith's statements aft releasing a connection addressing Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass's disapproval of their handling of Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif. (Getty Images)

Padilla, the archetypal Latino elected to the Senate from California, sparked a media firestorm Thursday implicit the property league incidental wherever his bureau says he was trying to inquire Noem a question earlier helium was "forcibly removed by national agents, forced to the crushed and handcuffed" successful the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots.

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While Noam was speaking, Padilla attempted to shout implicit the Trump medication official. Law enforcement intervened to impede Padilla's advance.

The video of officers removing and past bringing Padilla to the ground rapidly spread among lawmakers connected Capitol Hill, with immoderate senators watching the spectacle unfold connected the Senate floor.  

Kristi Noem successful  a chapeau  lasting  astatine  a podium (Left) Alex Padilla is pushed by a antheral   (Right)

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was interrupted during a property league by California Senator Alex Padilla. (Getty Images/Fox News)

Democratic lawmakers universally condemned the level of unit utilized to region Padilla, and staged a march to the offices of some House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., successful protest. Some demanded that Noem resign from her post. 

Padilla was blasted by his Republican colleagues for perchance breaking the instrumentality and making "a spectacle of himself" alternatively than fulfilling responsibilities.

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Fox News' Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.

Joshua Q. Nelson is simply a newsman for Fox News Digital.

Joshua focuses connected politics, acquisition argumentation ranging from the section to the national level, and the parental uprising successful education.

Joining Fox News Digital successful 2019, helium antecedently graduated from Syracuse University with a grade successful Political Science and is an alum of the National Journalism Center and the Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program. 

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