{"id":10347,"date":"2025-06-16T22:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T22:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/alex-padilla-confrontation-in-la-shocks-senators-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T22:20:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T22:20:59","slug":"alex-padilla-confrontation-in-la-shocks-senators-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/alex-padilla-confrontation-in-la-shocks-senators-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Padilla confrontation in LA shocks senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators were left stunned Thursday by video of their colleague Alex Padilla getting manhandled and handcuffed in Los Angeles. The California Democrat was attempting to enter a news conference being held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem when he was physically confronted by law enforcement, forced out of the room and handcuffed on the floor&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/06\/12\/congress\/padilla-handcuffed-senator-reactions-00403295\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators were left stunned Thursday by video of their colleague Alex Padilla getting manhandled and handcuffed in Los Angeles. The California Democrat was attempting to enter a news conference being held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem when he was physically confronted by law enforcement, forced out of the room and handcuffed on the floor&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}