Dem Senator Compares Padilla Takedown to John Lewis Fighting for Civil Rights in the 60s
The “all-white beach club” references relate to Whitehouse’s long-standing membership in the exclusive Bailey’s Beach Club, located in Newport, Rhode Island, whose membership is said to be all white.
Poor Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA). Just as Sen. Chris Van Hollen finally put himself on the map (after serving more than two decades in Congress in obscurity) by exploiting the deportation of degenerate Kilmar Abrego Garcia in April, Padilla hoped the Los Angeles riots might provide him the same opportunity.
The casually dressed senator, whom no one recognized, entered a briefing room in the West Los Angeles federal building where Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was holding a news conference on Thursday, to make his stand.
The stunning video of Padilla being surrounded by federal agents, pushed out of the room, forced to the ground, and handcuffed, was played on an endless loop for the remainder of the afternoon and into the evening. Unfortunately for the previously unknown senator, the Israeli strikes on Iran abruptly ended his moment in the spotlight.
No. Alex Padilla attempted to interrupt a press conference through a staged act of disorderly conduct, then resisted arrest and assaulted federal agents.
No one is above the law pic.twitter.com/P9oGy60S84
— Tim (@Dragonboy155) June 12, 2025
In any case, news of Padilla’s takedown sent Democrats into overdrive. His Senate colleagues railed over the way he was treated, calling it a “sickening disgrace” and an “affront to democracy.”
The Democrats’ manufactured outrage was likely meant to raise the temperature at this weekend’s planned anti-Trump “No Kings” protests.
But in a crowded field of nonsense, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) managed to distinguish himself with a social media post of almost impressive absurdity. He placed an image of Padilla surrounded by Secret Service agents alongside an iconic photograph of a young black man fighting for civil rights at a protest, presumably in the 1960s. That young man would go on to become the long-serving congressman from Georgia, John Lewis. Lewis, who passed away in 2020, remains a towering figure in American history for his pivotal contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.
It was a disingenuous comparison at best. Whitehouse was trying to equate two vastly different situations to score political points. And his efforts backfired spectacularly.
— GrokSaid (@SunburntSoldier) June 13, 2025
Here are several more responses to Whitehouse’s pathetic post:
Imagine defiling the civil rights movement with a law breaking grandstander being rightfully detained you absolute fucking piece of shit.
You LITERALLY have a “White’s Only” establishment.
— Ikta (@IktaSentrosi) June 12, 2025
So you think a black man fighting for civil rights equates to a privileged Mexican Senator who tried to storm a press briefing, failing to ID, assaulting LEOs and then resisting arrest?
Holy fucking retard.
How is your wifes business going? Sent her anymore NGO money?— F*ckLame StreamMedia (@FuckKumala) June 13, 2025
That reminds me — how is your whites-only beach club doing?
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) June 13, 2025
What a slap in the face to Black Americans
— CartierFamily (@cartierfamilyZ) June 13, 2025
Is the picture on the right of a man trying to get into your whites only swim club?
— Told Ya So (@RammerJammer018) June 13, 2025
The “all-white beach club” references relate to Whitehouse and his wife’s long-standing membership in the exclusive—and controversial—Bailey’s Beach Club, located in Newport, Rhode Island, whose membership is said to be all white.
The story broke in June 2021. Asked by a reporter at the time if there were any minority members of the club, Whitehouse replied, “I think they’re still working on that and I’m sorry it hasn’t happened yet.”
Democrat Senator Whitehouse who preaches about rooting out systematic racism responds when asked how he feels about the all-white country club he belongs to.
“It’s a long tradition in Rhode Island” pic.twitter.com/3gvsMvmH0O
— suzy (@Suzy_1776) June 21, 2021
But the core reason Whitehouse’s tweet is so utterly contemptible lies in the Democratic Party’s long and dark history of racism. Though the party tries to distance itself from its racist past, celebrating such civil rights icons as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus in 1955 triggered the historic boycott, they never acknowledge how ruthlessly Democrats demonized them at the time.
King’s house was bombed twice, once while his wife and baby were inside. On another occasion, shots were fired at his home. He was arrested by local law enforcement on bogus charges several times. But these arrests and the mug shots that followed only served to lift King and the movement he led to national attention.
Parks was not the first black person to sit in the white section of a bus, nor was that the first attempt by activists to organize a bus boycott, but her act of defiance gained national attention. Coming on the heels of Emmett Till’s lynching in August 1955, the national press began focusing on the shocking injustices endured by black Americans in the South.
Historian Robert Caro detailed this period in the third volume of his widely acclaimed series, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate. Shortly after the boycott began, Montgomery’s Democratic mayor organized what was described as “the largest pro-segregation rally in history.” More than 10,000 people gathered to hear Democratic Mississippi Sen. James O. Eastland speak.
According to Caro, Eastland told the group, “In every stage of the bus boycott, we have been oppressed and degraded because of black, slimy, juicy, incredibly stinking n******. African flesh-eaters. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to abolish the Negro race, proper methods should be used. Among these are guns, bows and arrows, slingshots, and knives. All whites are created equal with certain rights. Among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of dead n******.”
The Democrats’ despicable treatment of black people during that era should disqualify them from claiming early civil rights activists as their own.
And modern-day Democrats like Whitehouse, who try to alter history so they can virtue signal must always be reminded: Democrats were the party of slavery. They even fought a war to defend it.
Elizabeth writes commentary for Legal Insurrection and The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Please follow Elizabeth on LinkedIn or X.
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The Democrats have truly jumped the shark. I would love to see someone create a video of Schumer saying he is outrages. Something he does several times a week. Booker has zero ability to act outraged. A really poor performance. These guys need new material.
The libtards have one play in their playbook – Hail Racist!!!
They’re all scumbags,
Why are there no clown emoticons for this site? 😃🙃
Just use the ones supplied by your operating system. 🤡
I so love seeing Whitehouse being hammered by his beach club membership, despite how innocent Milhouse maintains it is. Democrats are why the rest of us can’t have Nice Things, so it’s gratifying to see them hammered for enjoying their own Nice Things.
Either one is a ‘bad’ person deserving intense media pressure, permanent social ostracism b/c they are a member of an ‘all.white’ Club or they ain’t. Everyone who relentlessly piled onto Shoal.Creek, the City of Birmingham and the State of Alabama more generally in 1990 over the PGA event at an ‘all white’ Club seems strangely uninterested in Sen Whitehouse Family membership to a similar Club. The hypocrisy is astounding and directly undermines the progress we have made as a Nation. Just as the recent episode in Martha’s Vineyard where the millionaire residents of the exclusive, toney resort Town couldn’t wait to use the NG to run 5 or.6 dozen illegal aliens out of town and stash them out of sight and out of mind on a State Military Facility. Lots of virtue signals from d/prog but very little virtue.
I remember the furor over Augusta not having a black member and the threatened boycotts and protests at the Masters. I think they finally invited Condi Rice? Strangely, Old Sheldon seems to fly under the radar but if your politics are right I guess you can do that.
The d/prog really don’t seem to have internalized the fact that the photos Sen Whitehouse posted BOTH display angry d/prog putting their hands on folks. In one it is the cops of the d/prog segregationist political masters and the other is an out of control Senator barging into a DHS event, uninvited and unidentified shouting hysterically before lunging towards Sec Noem after being directed back away from the podium.
The first instinct of d/prog seems to be to try to bully and intimidate everyone around them and if that doesn’t work to use violence to accomplish their political goals. See LA Mayor Bass among other CA d/prog officials declaring that the mobs terrorizing the streets won’t stop and shouldn’t stop until ICE ends its deportation mission. Not for nothing but attempting bully and hold the Nation’s peace and security hostage with terroristic threats is getting awful close to insurrection especially since they’re well beyond their attempt at resuscitation of their old d/prog inclination of nullification.
We’re I a member of a club with an all white membership and got called out if tell the callers-out that it’s none of their business. That I will do as I jolly well please.
Then again, I’m not one of these people that stands in righteous indignation and professes all the civil rights nonsense that the Democrats have been shoving down our throats for the past several decades.
lol. Unidentified man claiming to be a Senator rushes the podium during a press conference prior to Q&A. Does it twice and is removed because, frankly, WHO KNOWS WHO THAT CLOWN IS…
Yet acts the victim despite the fact he was in the wrong. You just don’t rush high-level political figures in the US and expect to have nothing happen.
“Dem Senator Compares Padilla Takedown to John Lewis Fighting for Civil Rights in the 60s”
I prefer to compare it to Joe Louis being taken down by Max Schmeling over an Olympic medal.
Meanwhile Mar-A-Logo used to be “Whites only” until a New York real estate developer bought it.
You can anything doesn’t make it fact.
Democrats have completely lost it, and any real sense of right and wrong. The scary part is that so many actually believe it, which makes them seem all the dumber as they claim to be smarter and more cultured. Their policies aren’t too good either. They are too busy losing their minds obsessing over Trump to come up with any ideas. They only seem left with support of the bad guys and violence.
They are trying to stay “relevant” BAMN.
As their relevancy dwindles, their means get more and more unstable.
Soon they will be dividing by political zero.
Sheldon Whitehouse is the argument for the administration of annual IQ tests for government officials.
What a moron.
Moron? Nah. Whitehouse actually possesses the average IQ for a RI voter.
“For all intensive purposes!”
Not so hard on people in RI. I have relatives there and the people suffer the same thing other states have. One or two large cities that run the vote and the rest get left out. NY, IL, VA, CA, WA, OR. All in the same boat.
They elected carpetbagger patches kennedy as a rep. enuf said.
And a dynasty of RINOs for governor and senator who were some of the biggest gungrabbers in the country.
Annual bills written and filed to outlaw all handguns. Really. Pretty brutal, particularly for Republicans.
John Lewis, like John McCain, did something honorable and parlayed that into being a DC piece of shit. Whitehouse is just a piece of shit.
Dems are desperately trying anything to get support. Flying to El Salvador for “Maryland Man” has backfired. Trying to enter the detention facility in NJ, Auntie Maxine trying to get in the building in DC with cameras in tow, Auntie Maxine trying to enter the building in California with cameras in tow, all 3 in the new found spirit of “Congressional Oversight” as if that is a magic wand you can wave and go anywhere you want (must have sent out that Congressional Oversight on the same memo tell every Dem to start swearing like drunken sailors) and now this stunt which has already fallen apart from brave stand for freedom or something to staged publicity stunt.
Remember why they are doing all this. Trying to stop cuts in government spending specifically to their grifting gravy train and shielding illegal aliens. I’ve never seen one of these glory hounds work so hard for American Citizens.
So.. now we have a “political” murder in Minnesota. First of all …. this is more than eerily similar to a shooting in Canada where the guy dress up exactly as an RCMP and even had the car fully decaled. This was a planned hit… not specific to a person I believe… but “garaged” for the needed occasion. The Dems need a martyr…desperately need one. The woman politician murdered just voted WITH Republicans on a bill.
Hey, at least we finally have a citable answer to the question of why Democrats always vote reliably in lockstep like little hive bees.
John Lewis complaining about imaginary Tea Party spitting would be a more apt comparison.