Democrats march to Thune's and Johnson's offices after Padilla's 'brutal handcuffing' at Noem press conference

Several Democratic lawmakers marched to Senate Majority Leader John Thune‘s (R-SD) and House Speaker Mike Johnson‘s (R-LA) offices after Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was wrestled out of a Department of Homeland Security press briefing and handcuffed Thursday.

Padilla’s detainment, which came after he interrupted a press conference given by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, immediately lit a partisan fuse in Congress, with Johnson saying the “behavior, at a minimum, rises to the level of a censure.”