🚨 You know it was REALLY BAD when you lose CNN…
Reporter: “This is a federal building; you can’t just, you know, wander in there necessarily. What reporting do you have, and how do you, how should we, in your view, be analyzing how we’re seeing these agents respond?”
Legal Expert: “Well, it’s easy to think about this as one incident, but actually, from a law enforcement perspective, we’re really looking at three separate incidents that happened within a short period of time. First, you have the DHS Secretary who is addressing the press; this was not a Q&A period, and she’s interrupted by someone who was speaking very loudly, and so her security detail confronts what we obviously now know to be the Senator. And at that point, he is now going to be escorted out. You can’t interrupt something like that that’s already in progress without having those consequences. But the second incident, in my view, happens the moment, as officers are trying to lead him out, he then turns and walks back towards, kind of into those agents. At that point, from a security detail perspective, we’re taking this person out against their will. We’ve asked the person, and again, this is all happening very quickly, but the moment he then turns into them, they realize this is not someone who’s going to comply.”