Stephen A Smith blasts Alex Padilla for his ‘out of control’ behavior at Kristi Noem’s press conference

Stephen A Smith crit­i­cized Sen Alex Padil­la for dis­rupt­ing Kristi Noem’s press con­fer­ence (Screengrab/The Stephen A Smith Show, @ConquestTheory/X)

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: ESPN fire­brand Stephen A Smith lashed out at Sen­a­tor Alex Padil­laon Fri­day, June 13, after he inter­rupt­ed Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­ri­ty (DHS) Sec­re­tary Kristi Noem’s press con­fer­ence, and was forcibly removed and hand­cuffed.

Dur­ing the press con­fer­ence on Thurs­day, June 12, Noem slammed Cal­i­for­nia lead­ers amid protests in the state against ICE raids, when Sen Padil­la inter­rupt­ed her and began ask­ing a ques­tion, accord­ing to The Dai­ly Beast

NEW: Stephen A. Smith GOES OFF on Dem Sen. Alex Padil­la over behav­ior at Kristi Noem press con­fer­ence “You — a Unit­ed States sen­a­tor — could­n’t com­pose your­self and let the head of Home­land Secu­ri­ty fin­ish her thoughts before you asked a ques­tion?”

Stephen A Smith lashes out at Sen Alex Padilla

Speak­ing on ‘The Stephen A Smith Show’, Stephen A Smith said, per Fox News, “Here you have this Sen Alex Padil­la – Can Kristi Noem speak? Could you have wait­ed till she fin­ished to ask your ques­tions, to shout your ques­tions?”

He added, “You are a sen­a­tor, right? You could­n’t wait? So that was just you out of con­trol because you were just los­ing it, huh. You, a Unit­ed States sen­a­tor, could­n’t com­pose your­self and let the head of Home­land Secu­ri­ty fin­ish her thoughts before you ask the ques­tion. Could­n’t do that, huh? Could­n’t do it, huh?”

More­over, the Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­ri­ty shared Smith’s state­ments on X (for­mer­ly Twit­ter) after releas­ing a state­ment address­ing Los Ange­les May­or Karen Bass’s crit­i­cism of their han­dling of Padil­la.

DHS cap­tioned the post, “What @stephenasmith said.”

More­over, DHS also tweet­ed, “Sen­a­tor Padil­la chose dis­re­spect­ful polit­i­cal the­atre and inter­rupt­ed a live press con­fer­ence with­out iden­ti­fy­ing him­self or hav­ing his Sen­ate secu­ri­ty pin on as he lunged toward Sec­re­tary Noem. Mr Padil­la was told repeat­ed­ly to back away and did not com­ply with offi­cers’ repeat­ed com­mands.”

@SecretService thought he was an attack­er and offi­cers act­ed appro­pri­ate­ly. Sec­re­tary Noem met with Sen­a­tor Padil­la after and held a 15-minute meet­ing,” DHS added.

Stephen A Smith slams Alex Padilla for ‘propping’ himself up 

The ESPN fire­brand went on to slam Alex Padil­la for “prop­ping” him­self up. 

He said, “That’s why you should be look­ing at Gov­er­nor Wes Moore of Mary­land, you should be look­ing at Josh Shapiro, gov­er­nor of Penn­syl­va­nia.”

“You know, the peo­ple that don’t engage in this kind of non­sense. You’re talk­ing about prop­ping your­self. It’s all non­sense. It’s all used as a tool to divide us,” Smith added.

Mean­while, Padil­la’s office said the Sen­a­tor was try­ing to ask Noem a ques­tion before he was “forcibly removed by fed­er­al agents, forced to the ground and hand­cuffed” in the wake of the Los Ange­les riots, per the out­let.

Notably, the Sen­a­tor tried to shout over the Trump admin­is­tra­tion offi­cial while Noem was speak­ing dur­ing the press con­fer­ence. The clip of offi­cers remov­ing and then bring­ing Padil­la to the ground quick­ly spread among law­mak­ers on Capi­tol Hill.

Internet sides with Stephen A Smith as he lashes out at Alex Padilla

Sev­er­al inter­net users sided with Stephen A Smith as he lashed out at Sen Alex Padil­la for inter­rupt­ing Kristi Noem’s press con­fer­ence in Los Ange­les.