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The world has now seen video of Homeland Safety assaulting and detaining Sen. Alex Padilla for making an attempt to ask DHS Secretary Kristi Noem questions, however Homeland Safety doesn’t appear to be conscious that there’s video of the incident, as a result of they mentioned in an announcement:
Senator Padilla selected disrespectful political theatre and interrupted a dwell press convention with out figuring out himself or having his Senate safety pin on as he lunged towards Secretary Noem.
Mr. Padilla was informed repeatedly to again away and didn’t adjust to officers’ repeated instructions. @SecretService thought he was an attacker and officers acted appropriately.
Secretary Noem met with Senator Padilla after and held a 15 minute assembly.
Homeland Safety lied of their assertion.
Right here is the video that reveals the reality:
In keeping with Homeland Safety, it’s Sen. Padilla’s fault that he was assaulted as a result of he was “disrespectful.” As you possibly can see within the video above, Padilla did determine himself, and the Secret Service brokers continued to assault him after he informed them that he was Sen. Alex Padilla and he had some questions for Sec. Noem.
In White Home communicate, any member of Congress who makes an attempt to query a member of the administration is “disrespectful,” and is likely to be an attacker, so that they have to be assaulted.
The Division of Homeland Safety lied in its assertion, and if Republicans in Congress had an oz. of backbone, they might be part of with Democrats to launch a bipartisan investigation into this incident.
We’ve seen this film earlier than. I believe that Republicans will do nothing, as Democrats and the American individuals are on their very own within the battle for democracy.
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