Comment on Senator Alex Padilla forcefully removed and handcuffed after questioning Kristi Noem at press conference in LA

bulwark@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• jonathan7luke@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t know if there’s video footage of Padilla specifically preceding this moment of the press conference, but I think this clip captures most of what happened. Here’s a description from AP News:

  Padilla interrupted the news conference after Noem delivered a particularly pointed line, saying federal authorities were not going away but planned to stay and increase operations to “liberate” the city from its “socialist” leadership.

  - apnews.com/…/alex-padilla-noem-immigration-protes…

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Pretty sure there’s gotta be a law against the federal government officially attacking a state to remove democratically elected officials.

    Because that’s exactly what her statement says they are there to do. Nothing about immigration or protests.

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    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There’s lots of laws against the things Donald is doing.

      The problem is that they are meaningless when unenforced.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ya know…my innitial instinct was to make a joke. But this actually needs to be treated as the serious situation that it is.

  This.

  The situation in LA.

  It’s all an attack on this country from within.

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