The moment U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) turned his shoulder into agents attempting to escort him out of a news conference, he should have known there was going to be trouble.
That was the summation of Alex Campbell, security correspondent for CNN, who said the Democrat’s body language told U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s protective detail all they needed to know about his presence at her news conference on Thursday. Padilla was forcibly removed from the room and, a short time later, thrown to the ground and placed in handcuffs.
Outrage followed the startling footage of a sitting senator being cuffed like a criminal, but it’s unsurprising how the incident unfolded given Padilla’s behavior, Campbell told anchor Kaitlan Collins.
“It’s easy to think about this as one incident, but from a law enforcement perspective, we’re really looking at three separate incidents that happened within a short period of time,” he explained.
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