Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said it “sickened my stomach -- the manhandling of a United States Senator.” Padilla’s California colleague Adam Schiff called for an immediate investigation. Several Democrats were dropping the word “fascism” in conversations as they made their way out of the Capitol.

The confrontation was caught on video by dozens of journalists and later took the internet by storm at the sight of a U.S. senator being taken down to the ground by federal agents