Alex Padilla says FBI escorted him to Noem press conference before he was wrestled to the ground for interrupting

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Friday 13 June 2025 12:05 EDT


California Democratic Senator Alex Padilla says FBI agents escorted him to a Kristi Noem press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday, where he was swarmed by security, contradicting the Trump administration’s version of events. The Homeland Security Secretary was addressing the policing of this week’s anti-ICE protests in the California city, which saw President Donald Trump controversially send in the National Guard and Marines to keep order, when Padilla spoke up to ask a question and was roughly wrestled to the ground by Secret Service and FBI agents and eventually led away in handcuffs.

Noem, the agents, and the White House have since insisted that the senator “lurched” at the secretary. Still, Padilla insisted this was not the case, offering his own version of events on last night’s episode of MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber. Interviewer Jacob Soboroff put it to Padilla that the agents responsible for the Noem event had said they had not recognized him and believed him to be an attacker and that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had since dismissed the whole affair as staged political theater.

“Well, first of all, that’s ridiculous. It’s a lie, but par for the course for this administration, right?” the senator responded. He explained that he had been in the federal building in Westwood for a meeting about the administration’s plan to use Guantanamo Bay as a facility to hold undocumented migrants when he learned that Noem would be speaking just down the hall and had decided to ask her for answers in person given that the DHS had been “non-responsive” to his requests for information.

Padilla continued: “We’re, the whole time, being escorted in this federal building by somebody from the National Guard, somebody from the FBI. I’ve gone through screening. This is a federal building. “They escort me over to that room. And I’m sitting in the back of the room, behind the cameras, behind the reporters, listening, listening. And at one point, it was just too much to take.”

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/alex-padilla-kristi-noem-fbi-escort-b2769686.html

[Attilatheblond]

1. I love the smell of Noem's lying ass roasting in the morning!

Good catch, BumRushDaShow! Thank you SO much for posting this!

[DENVERPOPS]

11. There is one major distinct difference

Between the members of Trump's "Bimbo Battalion" and the crack whore, street walkers......

That being:

There are a number of things that the Crack Whores WILL NOT DO, for ANY amount of money........

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Then why didn't the FBI intervene when ICE grabbed, tackled, and shackled

Sen. Padilla?

[BumRushDaShow]

5. It's possible that they were just "generic escorts"

who basically just "escorted" him from room to room in the building and may have just remained outside of that room until he was done and would have "escorted" him wherever else in the building he needed to go. He was apparently there listening for a bit before he finally had enough and attempted to get his question in and that is when the officers in the room reacted (which were probably the ones who were with her).

[mackdaddy]

6. One of the guys putting Padilla on the floor and cuffing him WAS FBI

At least that was on his jacket.

They all should be fired.

[malthaussen]

9. You're seriously asking that question?

Assuming you are asking in good faith, here is a good-faith answer: 1) because the FBI as an institution is not going to interfere with another LEO when it does something, and 2) the FBI is also partially corrupted by Trumpistas, just as is Treasury, the Marshal's office, and AFT. ICE is not the only agency acting as Brownshirts, just the most active one (and the most corrupted).

-- Mal

[D. Spaulding]

3. I watched several video versions of the situation.

There was no "lunging" or "rushing the stage". MAGA has learned that if you can quickly shape the narrative before many people are aware or have witnessed the situation for themselves, it sticks with their supporters. Hell, almost 5 years after Jan 6th, and many of his ill informed sycophants still repeat the lie that Pelosi "turned down" National Guard support for the Capitol.

[mahina]

7. I read you. I don't think we were supposed to hear the part about liberating Los Angeles.

The hidden lede here is that they are manufacturing news in order to manufacture two different realities, in order to manufacture consent - to borrow a phrase from Chomskyʻs book of that name.

[Clouds Passing]

4. More gnome preplanned theatrics.

Sorry to al the sweet gnomes out there.

[IronLionZion]

8. If they can do this to a US Senator they can do it to any of us

MAGAts have been saying to deport him. Where? Back to LA where he was born?

[Joinfortmill]

10. Sounds like a set-up. Sue their asses. So damn sick of this nightmare.

[liberalla]

12. I was just going to type that! Damn!

[Blue Owl]

13. It's time for these Nazi stunts to backfire spectacularly in the Furher's fucking face