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Alex Padilla: “The National Guard was not necessary.”

Featuring: Alex Padilla, Democratic | U.S. Senate from California

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Senator Alex Padilla Discusses Controversial Detention at DHS Briefing on MSNBC

Published | Video Starts at 10:49

The images that we've seen over the course of the last week of some vandalism, some violence, etc. That's wrong and I denounce it. But it's very small and very contained in a big metropolis of the Los Angeles area. So The National Guard was not necessary. but folks have responded to that. It's the Trump administration continuing to escalate. A couple days ago, he's saying that things are better now that the National Guard has shown up. (10:49–10:52)

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Asserts that the deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles was unnecessary.

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