Dem senator’s Padilla-John Lewis comparison sparks immediate outrage

Democratic Senator Shieldon Whitheus faced an immediate reaction on Thursday in response to a position to social media, as he compared the skill of his democratic colleague at a press conference for the work of civil rights pioneers and the late Congress John Lewis.

Soon after the Senator Alex Badilla, California extended It was removed by force The handcuffed during a press conference held by the Minister of Internal Security Christie Nom in Los Angeles amid riots of control, Senator Whitheus published a picture of the accident along with a historical photo of Lewis faced by police officers after he was subjected to him by a mob in a bus in South Carolina.

Lewis was arrested more than 40 times during the civil rights movement and was a major figure during many prominent moments in the afternoon, including riding freedom, speaking in the march in Washington and participating in Silma to the Montgomery marches in Alabama.

Congress member, Republican Party Burgis Owens, who grew up in Jim Crow South, was one of the many who were compared.

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“Talk about cheap insult,” Owens told Fox News Digital. “As a person who grew up under the separation in the deep south, I can tell you: comparing this political trick with the courage of the civil rights movement is offensive, wrong and shameful.”

The post has also been criticized by the conservatives Social media.

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American Senator Alex Padilla, Democrat from California, is removed from the room after boycotting a press conference with Minister of Internal Security Christie Nayyim in the Federal Wilshair building in Los Angeles on June 12, 2025. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

“This reminds me-how is the white beach club only?” Federal Editor -in -Chief Molly Hemingway Posted on XRefer to Whitehouse membership at the exclusive Rhode Island Sailt club that was criticized for allowing egg members only.

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Whitehouse has denied The club has “rules of exclusion of membership”, but he admitted that it “lacks diversity” and apologized for “not addressing the sailing club’s lack of diversity.”

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“The comparison alone is the Senator Whitchus is not respected, but it is also very rich in the man who suffers from membership to an exclusive and white country club.”

“It seems that the morally skilled Democratic Party is ready to go to the extreme to justify the pathetic political trick of Senator Padilla, including comparing his inappropriate pride in John Lewis’s heroic fighting for civil rights,” he said.

Badilla, the first Latin elected to the California Senate, raised a Stormy media On Thursday, about the press conference, where his office says that he was trying to ask a question before “he was removed by force by federal agents, and they were forced on the ground and handcuffs.”

The video is spread to the officers who remove Badilla and then bring Padilla to the ground quickly among the legislators in the Capitol Hill, where some Senate members watch the scene reveal in the Senate Hall.

Democrats globally condemned the level of power used to remove Padilla, and formed a march for the offices of parliament Speaker Mike Johnson, R does, and the majority leader of the Senate John Thun, RS.D, protest.

Some demanded that Naim resign from her position.

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Senator Sheldon Whitch (Al Drao/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

His California’s democratic colleague Adam Chef said: “Christie sleep was not supposed to be appointed to this position,” said Adam Chef. “You must resign from this position. There must be an investigation into the behavior of these officers.”

The reaction to the other side of the corridor was largely on the same page, as the majority in the Senate was the John Parasu, R and Yiu, accused of Badilla of making a “scene for himself”, and wondering why the Senate’s votes did not appear.

Others wanted to know whether a crime had committed, such as Senator Bernie Moreno, Rao, who was heading the Senate Hall when the video began to make tours.

“In fact, it is the Democrats who love to say no one above the law,” Fox News Digital told Fox News Digital. “Now it is ridiculous, given that they chanted that the FBI raided the house of a former president without any justification at all.”