When you walk into a press conference and cause a disturbance, you can expect to be removed quite quickly. When you walk into that room with the intent to maliciously disrupt an event and to harass someone, you can expect to walk out of that room in handcuffs.
I truly believe that Alex Padilla, a senator from California, interrupted Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s press conference today with intent. I believe that his intent was not to ask a legitimate question, but to disrupt the event and call attention to himself.
While Noem spoke, Padilla raised his voice and shouted, “I’m Senator Alex Padilla, and I have questions for the secretary.” Problem is, he had no cause to interrupt the proceedings, and for that matter, he didn’t even have the right to ask questions. It was a press conference, not a senator conference.
FBI agents quickly tackled him to the ground, handcuffed him and led him out of the room. In response to this, Padilla shouted, “The fact of the matter is half a dozen violent criminals that you’re rotating on your…. hands off!”
Hands off? No, idiot. Law enforcement will put their hands on you if you commit a crime, and what he did clearly qualified as a criminal action, albeit a misdemeanor. Rather than accept accountability for his actions, Padilla told the agents to take their hands off him. Surely he knew that this would happen. Actions have consequences, even if you’re a senator.
Did he even make an attempt to seek an appointment with Noem? No. He could have and should have gone through the proper channels. Instead, he turned the nuclear key and barged into the room, disrupted it and then became enraged when he was held accountable.
Of course, Padilla is very biased in this matter. He is the son of Mexican immigrants and that is obviously clouding his better judgement.
As you might expect, ever the media whore, Padilla quickly summoned a press conference. One of the things he said was:
“If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they’re doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community.”
Yes, he was a senator with a question, but he chose the wrong way to try to ask that question. He knows what he did was wrong, but he did it anyway. To me, that says he planned this.
He went in there with the intent to disrupt the conference. He wanted the FBI to tackle him so he’d make the news. He then called in the media and immediately played the victim. Yeah, well…he would.
Noem was there to discuss the recent demonstration events in California and the resulting law enforcement and military activities. Padilla saw his opportunity and took it just like the media whore he is. No, he didn’t have a question. He had a malicious motive.