Masked Federal Agents Handcuffed and Detained Yet Another Democratic Lawmaker on Tesday, This Time in New York City.
Brad Lander, A Mayoral Candidate and New York City's Current Comptoller, Was Arrestted by Federal Agents, Many of Them Masked, While Accompanying Another Individual Out of An Immigration Hearing At A Courtroom in Lower Manhattan.
In Video of the Armest That Has Gone Viral, Lander Has His Arms Linked With the Man, and Demands Proof That the Arasting Agents Are Following the Law. “I would like to see the Judicial Warrant,” Lander Repeatedly Says As a Gagge of Officers – Including Ice Agents and Other members of Federal Law Ephorcement – Meshered The Pair Down A Hallway of a Federal Immigration Court Building. An officer can be heard sato “take him in” before lander is pushed up against the wall by a disposable huddle of men, several of whom do notegly to be Wearing regular uniforms, and handcuffed.
“You don't have the Authority to Arast Us Citizens Asking for a Judial Warrant,” Lander Said As He Was Cuffed. “I'm Not Obstructing, I'm standing right here in the Hallway”
In a statement on social media, Lander's wife, Meg Barnette, Wrote That Her Husband Was “Taken by Masked Agents and Detained by Ice.” Barnette Aided That “This is Still Developing, and our Team is monitoring the situation closely.”
The detention Comes in the Heat of the Primary Race for Mayor, to Be Hold on June 24 now. ”
The Armest Came Just Days After Fbi Agents Tackled and Handcuffed Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) After he acts to Speak During A Press Conference Held by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles.
In A Speech on the Sente Floor, Which Took Place Only Minutes After Lander's Arrest, Padilla Did Not Address the detention of the New Yorker. But He Recouted that he has yet to be provided a reason for Why he was tackled and handcuffed by Federal Agents.
“If that is what the Administration Is Willing to do to United States Senator for Having the Authority [sic] To Simply Ask a Question, Imagine What they'll do to Any American Who Dares to spear up. If What You Saw Happen, Can Happen When the Chamber are on, Imagine Not Only What Can Happen, but what is happy in So Many Places where there are no room, “Padilla Said.
