THE MOST SERIOUS QUESTION WE CAN ASK IS: If ICE can handcuff a US Senator for simply asking a question, can any of us be safe when we want to speak up?
“In emotional remarks on Tuesday, Padilla, a California Democrat, recounted the altercation, in which security forced him out of the room and onto the ground after he tried to ask Noem a question. Padilla said that even though he was accompanied by a National Guardsman and an FBI agent, “I was pushed and pulled, struggled to maintain my balance,” and ended up flat on his chest on the floor.
“I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, ‘Why I am being detained?’” Padilla said as several of his colleagues from both major political parties sat in their chairs and listened. “Not once did they tell me why.”