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Three Data Points from the Padilla Assault
Senator Alex Padilla was escorted by a National Guardsman and an FBI agent to a DHS press conference and was assaulted, implicating FBI involvement.
Investigators at San Jose State University are calling in the FBI about graffiti on campus threatening a mass shooting. The university doesn't believe there's a credible threat but given what's happened lately, students are understandably alarmed. San Jose State's provost says someone found the graffiti Tuesday in an academic building. It included antisemitic and racist slurs. The campus police department is trying to identify the person who made the graffiti. There will be extra officers on campus in the coming days.
During the conference, Branco: argued that those arrested were young autistic people who were very technically talented and could be of great benefit to their country, but instead they had been arrested and could be going away for 20 years. claimed that Kering and LVMH, two victims of attacks, had pressured the French government to make arrests. claimed that French law enforcement was taking orders/direction from the FBI.