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Author: commonone 🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: State Senator Thrown to Floor, Handcuffed
Date: 06/12/2025 4:52 PM
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...for daring to attempt to ask the puppy killer questions.

A U.S. senator from California was forced to the floor, handcuffed and removed by federal agents after interrupting a news conference by the homeland security secretary in Los Angeles on Thursday. ... The encounter, and the image that quickly spread online of a senator being handcuffed in a hallway as a cabinet official held a news conference steps away, highlighted rising national tensions as politicians and others speak out against workplace raids and President Trump’s military deployments on U.S. soil. It came as troops prepared to mobilize in several states, and as the spreading protests against the administration’s immigration crackdown showed no sign of slowing.

Noem said Senator Alex Padilla's effort to ask her questions during her new conference "wasn't appropriate" and it was lucky for him he wasn't a puppy or she would have shot him in the face.

I made up that last part.

Or did I?

But federal agents actually did drag Padilla out of the news conference, wrestled him to the ground, and handcuffed him after he identified himself as a California state senator.

Welcome to The Dictatorship.


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/12/us/la-prot...

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Author: ptheland 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: State Senator Thrown to Floor, Handcuffed
Date: 06/12/2025 5:19 PM
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Just to be clear, Senator Alex Padilla is a US senator from the state of California.

He is also Hispanic. No one has yet said that the color of his skin played a role. Sen. Padilla is not going to go there. But dollars to donuts, if it were a white woman instead of Padilla, the situation would have been handled differently. Because brown men are inherently scary to far too many in the MAGA cult.

And a reminder. Cruelty isn’t a bug. It’s the main feature.

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