Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass — accused of being out of touch and slow to action during the recent fires — took the gloves off today in response to the assault on California U.S. Senator Alex Padilla by members of Trump Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s security detail earlier in the day.

Bass and Noem entered the House together in 2011 and served together until Noem left Congress to become the governor of South Dakota in 2019.

The mayor denounced the forcible removal of Sen. Alex Padilla from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference earlier in the day.

Gavin Newsom has done absolutely nothing, Mayor Bass has done absolutely nothing,” the DHS secretary told Fox News host Sean Hannity.

The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security said she and federal officials hope to protect LA and other cities from “lawlessness.”

California Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a press conference after he interrupted a press conference in L.A. underway from Department of Homeland Security Secretary

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a news conference hosted by U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem on Thursday morning in Los Angeles, according to video of the incident posted to social media.

The Homeland Security secretary was slammed online for making the shocking remarks. Experts in political science weighed in on why her comments, and similar rhetoric, is dangerous.