Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said he wants answers about the June 12 incident in which Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif. was handcuffed during a media briefing conducted by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Axios reported.

“I am Sen. Alex Padilla, I have questions for the secretary,” Padilla said during the press conference at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles, where Noem was answering questions about protests in the city related to immigration enforcement actions.

Video showed a Secret Service agent on Noem’s security detail grabbing the California senator by his jacket and shoving him from the room as he tried to speak up during the DHS secretary’s event. Padilla interrupted the news conference after Noem said federal authorities were not going away but planned to stay and increase operations to “liberate” the city from its “socialist” leadership.

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