The Democrats expressed their outrage after Democratic Senator Alex Padilla de California was retired by the force of the press conference of the Secretary of National Security Kristi Noem on Thursday in Los Angeles, taken to the ground and handcuffed by agents of the law.

Noem was talking to the media about the federal response to protests against immigration and customs’ immigration raids in the area when Padilla entered the room and approached Noem’s podium. When he approached, police officers in the room grabbed the senator, took him out of the room to a hall, forced him to the ground and handcuffed him.

The video shows Padilla, the subcommittee member of the Judicial Committee of the Senate on immigration, citizenship and border security, identifying and saying that he wanted to ask a question while the police forced him to leave the room.

Padilla was later seen without wives talking to Noem in a conference room. Noem later said that the two spoke for 10 to 15 minutes and exchanged phone numbers. Noem said he did not expect him to be accused.

Noem said the police reacted because he took measures towards her without identifying. She told Fox News that nobody knew who he was and that he was “moving forward.”

The video of the incident captures Padilla who identifies himself when he is expelled from the room; It is not clear if he did before the incident or when he approached the podium.

Padilla then told the journalists that he attended the press conference because national security had not been answering his questions about the deportation and immigration policies of the administration.

“And so I got to the press conference to listen to what I had to say, to see if I could learn any additional information,” said the senator, emphasizing that he was peacefully there.

DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin claimed that Padilla did not identify before approaching the podium.

“Senator Padilla chose an disrespectful political theater and interrupted a live press conference without identifying himself or having his safety pin of the Senate as he threw himself towards Secretary Noem,” he said in a publication about X. “Mr. Padilla repeatedly told him to go back and did not comply with the repeated commands of the officers. properly appropriately. “

Noem told Fox News that he would have preferred to have talked to Padilla, “but entering a press conference like this is the political theater.”

“We sat down and had a conversation and we probably do not agree with 90% of the issues, but we agreed and exchange phone numbers and continue talking and sharing information and that is how it should be in this country,” he said. “I wish I had acted that way at the beginning is to create a scene like this.”

The Padilla Democratic colleagues criticized the way it was treated.

“I just saw something that made my stomach, the abuse of a senator from the United States. We need immediate answers to what happened,” said the Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer.

The governor of California Gavin Newsom called Padilla “one of the most decent people I know.”

“This is scandalous, dictatorial and shameful,” Newsom wrote in X. “Trump and his shock troops are out of control. This must end now.”

The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, published in X: “What just happened to @senalexpadilla is absolutely abhorrent and outrageous.”

The Senator of California, Adam Schiff, described the actions against Padilla as an “assault” to democracy.

“This is an administration that does not respect our democracy, for our institutions, for the separation of powers, by a coefficient of the government,” he said.

The leader of the minority of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, told journalists that the way he managed to Padilla was a “complete and total misfortune.”

“[Senator Padilla] He was at that press conference doing his job, asking questions about what is happening in California, the state he represents and on behalf of the American people, and was imprudently and aggressively mistreated. That was unacceptable. It was inconceivable. It was antipatriotic. He is not American, and each person who was involved in the abuse of Senator Padilla must be responsible for most of the law, “he told reporters.

Jeffries said the Democrats “would retraced aggressively in all possible forms” to hold the Trump administration responsible.

The Hispanic Caucus of Congress also demanded an investigation into the incident.

“This is unacceptable, a complete stop,” the CHC published in X. “@Senalexpadilla attended an open press conference to participate in the debate, to represent his state, to do his job. We demand a complete investigation and consequences for all the officials involved in this assault against an American senator.”

Former Vice President Kamala Harris described the incident “an abuse of being able to be able to be able to

On the floor of the Senate, Democratic Senator Patty Murray said: “It is unacceptable that a senator of the United States, in her chosen birth state, chosen by millions of people, was to ask a question so that her voters obtained an answer, and brutally thrown to the ground and handcuffed. That is wrong.

“What happens when that voice was suffocated? What happens when that voice is thrown to the ground and handcuffed? That voice is lost,” he said.

The members of the Hispanic Caucus broke into the offices of President Mike Johnson and the leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune. The Democrats of the Delegation of the California Congress rushed to the steps of the Chamber to condemn the incident.

“This assault on Senator Padilla today was an assault on freedom of expression in our country,” said former President Nancy Pelosi.

California representative Jimmy Gómez asked Noem to testify to Congress.

“A main senator who was shouting at the top of his lungs, ‘I am Senator Alex Padilla,'” said Gomez. “And what we want to know, we are going to ask and demand that Kristi Noem come before Congress and testify what happened today.”

Thune told the journalists on Thursday night that he had spoken with Padilla and the sergeant of the Senate of Arms and that he had tried to reach Noem and said he was gathering events.

“We want to obtain the complete scope of what happened and do what we would do in any incident like this that involves a senator, which is to try to collect all the relevant information,” he said.

When asked if he thought what happened was appropriate based on what he had seen so far, Thune said: “That is all I have to say.”

A statement from Padilla’s office said he was in the building to receive an informative session from the commander of Northcom Gregory Guillot commander and that he was listening to Noem’s press conference.

“He tried to ask the secretary a question, and was eliminated by federal agents, forced to be handcuffed and handcuff. He is currently not being detained and we are working to obtain additional information,” said the statement.

The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, admonished Padilla, calling the behavior of the “very inappropriate” senator, adds: “Do not charge a cabinet secretary in the session.”

“I think there must be a message sent by the body as a whole that this is not what we are going to do. This is not how we are going to act,” he said during a press conference on an unrelated issue that was interrupted by Democratic members that shout “While!” While marching to Thune’s office to protest the incident.

Arthur Jones II of ABC News contributed to this report.