Secret Service followed protocol in Padilla incident

Saturday, June 14, 2025

California Sen. Alex Padilla is getting plenty of mileage out of his scuffle with the Secret Service and federal authorities in Los Angeles Thursday. Padilla's Senate and campaign X.com accounts posted a total of seven outraged videos in the first 24 hours after the altercation. Viral videos of the incident show a Secret Service agent dragging a fuming Padilla out of a press conference with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and he identifies himself as a senator only as he's being pushed out the door. The agent then forces Padilla to the ground, while two agents handcuff him. Padilla, however, wasn't arrested. Within the hour, agents released him with no charges

Posted by BellRinger at 09:38 AM | 28 COMMENTS | permalink

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LOL!!!

Whatever, stinkerbell.

#1 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-06-14 09:48 AM

The new protocol:

Resistance is futile.

Any dissent will be considered treason and will be met with overwhelming force and violence.

You WILL hit their heads on the door frame as you shove them socialists into the paddy wagon.

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-14 09:56 AM

he identifies himself as a senator only as he's being pushed out the door.

Posted by BellRinger

At which point he should have been granted the deference accorded his status.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-14 10:01 AM

Kristi Noem is a repulsive POS.

She's unfit to lick Padilla's Shoes.

A Psychopath in Heels.

How far we have fallen.

#4 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-06-14 10:12 AM

Posted by BellRinger

I am in awe of the amount of energy you spend denying common sense, denying clear and documented behavior, and defending the actions of some truly nasty people.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-14 10:36 AM

BALLWASHER THE CLOWN

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-14 10:56 AM

RealClearPolitics is wrong as usual.

Senator Padilla identified himself right away. Noem knows who he is because she has testified multiple times before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety, where he is the ranking Democrat.

There was no justification to keep shoving him and take him to the ground.

#7 | Posted by rcade at 2025-06-14 12:47 PM

Why is SS even there to begin with? Besides the fact that I don't think Noem deserves a cent's worth of public money for protection, salary, anything...

...but is it normal for the SS to protect cabinet members?

#8 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-14 12:51 PM

If this were one of Obama's people Jeff would have been livid absolutely livid. Jeff sold his soul to MAGA Trumper inc.

#9 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-14 01:04 PM

These dirtbags are all liars:

www.independent.co.uk

#10 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-06-14 01:18 PM

About the article author:

"Susan Crabtree is an author and a political correspondent for RealClearPolitics. She previously served as a senior writer for The Washington Free Beacon and spent five years as a White House Correspondent for the Washington Examiner."

Shocking that she has a rwing slant on things.

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-14 01:23 PM

BullBringer is a worthless partisan hack.

#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-14 01:23 PM

HE'S A LIAR AND A COWARD

#13 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-14 01:55 PM

" At which point he should have been granted the deference accorded his status.

#3 | POSTED BY ZED AT 2025-06-14 10:01 AM | FLAG: | "

He wasn't arrested. He was given 15 minutes with Noem in private and she gave him her number. This was purely a publicity stunt.

#14 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-14 01:59 PM

He was violently shoved out of the room and taken down like a criminal after repeatedly identifying himself as a U.S. senator. That's what got publicity.

#15 | Posted by rcade at 2025-06-14 02:08 PM

#14 | Posted by BellRinger

The good little soldier parrots the pathetic attempt to control the damage...LOL!!!

#16 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-06-14 04:06 PM

i0.wp.com

#17 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-06-15 10:48 AM

He wasn't (Padila) arrested.

#14 | Posted by BellRinger

When you are physically restrained on the ground by authorities, you are arrested.

What you are trying to say is the man was afterwards not charged with a crime.

Given that he broke no laws, that's expected.

#18 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-15 10:54 AM

This was purely a publicity stunt.

#14 | Posted by BellRinger

Noem appearing in body armor to arrest a brown pregnant woman is a publicity stunt.

FTFY.

#19 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-15 10:55 AM

"He wasn't arrested. He was given 15 minutes with Noem in private and she gave him her number. This was purely a publicity stunt.
#14 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER AT 2025-06-14 01:59 PM"

Have it your way.

Then it's an assault.

#20 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2025-06-15 11:08 AM

No doubt in my mind Jeffry is a Russian bot. I would post in his native language but this website doesn't allow Ruskie anymore.

#21 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-06-15 02:30 PM

"He wasn't arrested. He was given 15 minutes with Noem in private and she gave him her number. This was purely a publicity stunt.
#14 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

The Senator was at work. Doing his job. She should be sued for creating a hostile work environment.

15 minutes with Christi Noam is like a lifetime of terror in dog years.

#22 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-15 02:35 PM

#22: 15 minutes with Christi Noem is like a lifetime of terror in dog years.

Coffee spewing quip, Marine.

#23 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-15 02:48 PM

A lot of the so-called points made in this article are bogus. They were in a federal building which required screening to enter. Padilla was accompanied by two federal agents, who he said opened the door for him. Although he wasn't wearing a Senate pin, he was wearing a Senate shirt. Homeland Security Barbie, who loves photo ops, knew who he was--or should have.

#24 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-06-15 02:55 PM

Asha Rangappa
@asharangappa.bsky.social

I disagree with this assessment. My understanding is that all attendees had already been checked for weapons before coming in, I.e., there was no credible reason to believe he (even unIDd) was a threat. On top of that he is a U.S. Senator OF THAT STATE w direct oversight authority OVER HER AGENCY 1/

Sorry but in addition to a lack of threat, a person's identity and authority in this context matters, and force and restraint was simply not necessary. Punto. If you are a cabinet official and can't handle interjected questions during an effing press conference, get another job

#25 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-06-15 03:36 PM

Pretty much every presser I've watched has followed the same pattern.

The public official gives opening remarks. Then opens up for questions and calls on reporters, one by one and answers questions and sometimes takes follow ups. It's very rare to have some random show up, aggressively move toward the podium, without established credentials (like his security pin - if I were to barge in there and claim to be a Senator should I just get immediate access?). All of the other reporters were following protocol. Waiting for her to finish her remarks and then trying to get called on for a question. Apparently, because (D), Noem should have immediately stopped speaking and Padilla should have been allowed unfettered PHYSICAL access (he outweighs her by roughly 100 pounds) and he should have been allowed to take control of the entire presser and her security detail needed to just back away and let him do whatever he wanted.

This is insane.

#26 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-16 12:47 AM

Then opens up for questions and calls on reporters, one by one and answers questions and sometimes takes follow ups.

Or just calls them failing fake news and calls on someone else.

#27 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-16 01:21 AM

@#26 ... Pretty much every presser I've watched has followed the same pattern. ...

So, a need to "follow the same pattern" in public events?

Really?

That's where your current alias seems to be hanging its hat?

#28 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-16 01:27 AM

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