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Sen. Tim Kaine has claimed that Sen. Alex Padilla’s removal from a press conference in Los Angeles was among the most outrageous things he has ever seen.
Padilla, the senator from California, was escorted and handcuffed out of a press conference led by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after repeatedly interrupting the event while trying to ask “questions” about President Trump’s mass deportation policy.
Notice how Democrats don’t show this longer video that clearly shows Alex Padilla getting violent with federal agents?
This man committed a crime that J6ers got thrown in prison for years for pic.twitter.com/vFUKYIkzDV
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) June 12, 2025
In an interview with CNN on Friday, Kaine was asked his thoughts on the incident.
“Your colleague, Senator Padilla from California, was detained and handcuffed at an event yesterday with Secretary Kristi Noem,” asked host John Berman.
”What kind of message do you think that sends?”
Kaine responded:
It was one of the most outrageous things I‘ve ever seen in 67 years on the planet.
John, he is an L.A. city council member. He attended a meeting at the federal office building. He walked into a public press conference, and when the secretary said something about she was there to liberate Los Angeles from its government, he tried to ask a question.
He was manhandled, forced out of the room, tackled and handcuffed. The First Amendment guarantees the right to all Americans, we can peacefully assemble and petition government for redress of grievances.
That action yesterday, and the Trump actions more generally in deploying the military into a situation where there‘s no need for them, is an intent to suppress legitimate dissent against Trump policies.
On the eve of Flag Day, tomorrow‘s Flag Day, many of us are going to be involved in events for Flag Day.
We’ve got to commit ourselves to the notion that Americans can gather and express dissenting views to policies of this, or any administration that they don‘t care for, so long as those gatherings are peaceful, as was Alex Padilla‘s presence.
We‘re not only allowed to do them, we‘re guaranteed the right to do them. Even if this administration wants to suppress dissent, we can‘t let that happen.
Watch the clip below:
If this is the most outrageous thing he has ever seen, Tim Kaine’s life must have been astonishingly dull.
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