What did Sen. Alex Padilla get handcuffed for?

Last week, a Democratic senator walked into a news conference with questions. He left in handcuffs.
'Is this really happening?' Alex Padilla thought to himself.
This week, he's thinking about what happened.
'Never did I imagine hands on me, and let alone being put on the ground,' Padilla, California's first Latino senator, said in an interview at an office inside the Capitol this week.

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