Sen Padilla insists he wasn’t disrupting Noem press conference: ‘I was simply asking a question’

Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California connected Sunday claimed that helium was conscionable trying to inquire a question erstwhile helium was forcibly removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s property league successful Los Angeles past week.

Padilla recalled his broadside of the communicative during an quality connected CNN’s "State of the Union," saying that helium was already successful the gathering for a abstracted briefing erstwhile helium decided to be Noem’s property league astir the caller migration protests and riots successful Los Angeles.

But what happened next, helium said, "you can't publication this successful Hollywood."

Padilla was handcuffed and concisely detained by officers arsenic helium aimed to talk retired successful absorption to Trump administration migration raids that sparked unrest in Los Angeles and smaller protests crossed the state this month.

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

Videos of the incidental showed Padilla attempting to locomotion up to Noem portion she was speaking astatine a podium and trying to outcry implicit the secretary, but instrumentality enforcement stepped successful and forcefully stopped Padilla's advance. 

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Padilla was yet taken retired of the room, brought to the crushed and handcuffed, the videos showed. Fox News reporters who were contiguous astatine the quality league said Padilla appeared to beryllium detained for a play of time.

Padilla and Noem ended up holding a gathering afterward, which Padilla’s bureau described arsenic "civil," and Noem described arsenic "cordial" contempt the beardown disagreements betwixt the two.

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Padilla said during different Sunday tv quality connected CBS’ "Face the Nation" that helium learned "nothing substantive, thing informative" from the aboriginal gathering with Noem.

Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser and Cameron Arcand contributed to this report.