At the same building Friday, Vice President JD Vance disparaged Padilla for engaging in “political theater” and called him by the wrong name.

“Well, I was hoping Jose Padilla would be here to ask a question, but unfortunately, I guess he decided not to show up because there wasn’t the theater,” Vance said during a news conference in response to a reporter. “I think everybody realizes that’s what this is. It’s pure political theater.”

Vance’s spokesperson later said that he misspoke when he said the senator’s name.

The vice president spent much of his news conference blaming Gov. Gavin Newsom of California and Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles for the violence caused by some protesters in the city and the obstruction of immigration enforcement. Vance, who shook the hands of about 20 Marines who were at the federal building, alternated between attacks on California Democrats and praise for law enforcement.

“Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass, they decided to go to war against the people trying to keep our community safe,” Vance said. “That’s a disgrace. That’s a terrible commentary on their qualities as leaders.”

Newsom fired back on social media soon after. “Since you’re so eager to talk about me, how about saying it to my face,” he said. “Let’s debate. Time and place?”

Bass, in a news conference quickly convened to respond to Vance, accused the Trump administration of orchestrating “a stunt and an experiment” by sending the California National Guard and the Marines to Los Angeles. About 4,000 Guard troops and 700 Marines have been deployed to the city, which has been mostly quiet since Saturday.

“How dare you say that city officials encouraged violence,” Bass said. “We kept the peace.”

“The federal officials that were here protected a federal building,” she added. “Crowd control was handled most aptly by the Los Angeles Police Department, the Sheriff’s Department and local law enforcement.”

Last week, the removal of Padilla was captured on cellphone video by an aide, and the images rocketed across the internet, including to the phones of his stunned colleagues in the Senate. Those on the left condemned the incident as an example of authoritarianism by the Trump administration, while those on the right criticized Padilla for disrupting Noem’s event and defended the federal agents who briefly detained him.

Padilla said he was at the federal building June 12 for a meeting that hadn’t started, and he had walked over to Noem’s news conference to hear her speak. About five minutes in, he interrupted her by asking why she was exaggerating, right after she said the Trump administration was staying in Los Angeles to “liberate this city from the socialist and burdensome leadership” of Newsom and Bass.

Padilla was not arrested, and he met with Noem after the news conference.

Padilla is a Los Angeles native who is the son of Mexican immigrants and began his political career on the Los Angeles City Council. He and other Democrats have spoken out against the frequent raids by immigration officials in recent weeks that have spurred numerous protests.

Vance and Padilla served in the Senate together for two years before Vance left to become vice president at the beginning of this year. In his role as vice president, Vance is also the presiding officer of the Senate, holding the power to break ties and administer the counting of electoral ballots in presidential elections.

“As a former colleague of Sen. Padilla, the vice president knows better,” Padilla’s spokesperson Tess Oswald said in a statement. “Another unserious comment from an unserious administration.”

Padilla is one of a growing number of Democratic officials who have been handcuffed while challenging the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.

Vance, at his news conference Friday, described the actions of those Democratic leaders as publicity stunts.

“These guys show up, they want to be captured on camera doing something,” Vance said. “They want to be able to go back to their far-left groups and to say, ‘Look at me. I stood up against border enforcement. I stood up against Donald Trump.’”

Later Friday, a spokesperson for Vance, said the vice president misspoke when he said Padilla’s name. “He must have mixed up two people who have broken the law,” said Taylor Van Kirk, the spokesperson.

Jose Padilla is the name of a man who was convicted of terrorism conspiracy in 2007 after being arrested in Chicago on suspicion of planning to set off a radioactive dirty bomb. It is also the name of a Major League Baseball player, and a Spanish DJ who died a few years ago, known for defining the chill-out sound of the 1990s.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times. Article courtesy of the New York Times.

Bob Burnquist and Collin Graham are two of the world renowned skaters who are going to participate in the event. The Vertical Competition will start later today with the skaters taking to the ramp to compete for the Best Trick category.

Tomorrow, the real fun of the event begins when Highline racers will compete against one another at approximately 100′ in the air. The street ramp competition takes place, and the Base Jumpers are going to soar off the top of a the Hilton Hotel.

The Vertical Ramp competition warms-up tomorrow in the early afternoon. But the competition really begins at 5:45 pm EDT with the Recap of the Best Trick.

You can watch the livestream here on 3rdstree.tv or visit the Jackalope YouTube page. In the meantime, here is a video from one of the young skaters taken earlier today.

Content shot by Don Hughes while on-site.

Earlier this week, a man was shot at the Fairmont Hotel after a disagreement with another individual.

Watch the news video below that offers a recap on some of the most recent news headlines that happened in Santa Monica over the past week.

Some referential content courtesy of The Santa Monica Daily Press, The Santa Monica Mirror, The New York Times, TMX, The Washington Post, and the City of Santa Monica. Music content is cleared via Adobe Content Services.

Police arrested Ivan Angel Plancarte, 20, and later charged him with attempted murder. The police are still searching for the second suspect and are confident they will find him.

The stabbing happened early Saturday morning when the brother and sister, along with friends – who were visiting Santa Monica, decided they take a late night sojourn to the beach and put their feet in the water. While walking toward the water, the group of friends noticed two Hispanic men riding on scooters while seeming to be intoxicated. After some time, they noticed the two men were closer and the group began to feel uncomfortable.

Eventually, the two men approached the group and started to verbally attack them. It is not clear what happened next, but the two men allegedly pulled knives from their pockets and attacked the group. The brother was stabbed five times while the sister was stabbed four times.

The sister provided these pictures to KTLA:

As the altercation escalated, one of the people in the group called 911 who arrived within two minutes. On a side note, speaking from experience, many Santa Monica residents question the validity of arrival time by SMPD. Nonetheless, by the time SMPD arrived on site, they suspects had fled either on foot or on the possibly rented scooters they were previously seen riding.

One Santa Monica resident who has been following the crime said, “Thank God the brother and sister weren’t seriously injured. But,” he continued, “If the criminals rented the scooters, we should be able to find out their identities because they had to use their cell phones, credit cards, and app to rent the scooters,” He stated.

Despite a recent rise in physical violence at the beach and incidents of drunkenness, drug abuse, and marijuana use – the city of Santa Monica is considering allowing for people to openly drink in parts of Santa Monica.

Reference content courtesy of KTLA and Santa Monica Daily Press.

One of the questions that needed an immediate answer was, “what to do with the students?” who were unable to attend the schools in the Palisades.

Lana Negrete, Mayor of Santa Monica, announced the City of Santa Monica, would welcome at least 2,000 displaced students to Santa Monica. The city decided that the vacant building that once housed Sears – near 4th street and Broadway – would undergo an emergency renovation and welcome the students until an alternative solution could be found – or they destroyed schools could be rebuilt.

One Santa Monica resident said he was happy the empty building would now be put to good use. “The old Sears building is in a great location in the heart of Santa Monica,” the man said. “Kids commuting from the Palisades can easily make the drive while those coming from other locations have easy access from the 10 Freeway,” he concluded.

On Tuesday, several thousand students used the – almost always empty – train to commute from their permanent homes or their temporary homes. The Palisades Schools are part of Los Angeles Unified School District. Many of the students at Pali High didn’t live in the Palisades as the school was a Charter school – meaning – kids from outside the area could attend.

At the end of the first week, the students attending school seem to be happy. One student said, “The fires were challenging for everyone and like obviously caused a lot of damage. But we move on. I’m happy to be back at school with my friends.”

One teacher told the media, “We have the experience of teaching online due to Covid, so we transitioned quickly while we prepared for the move to the new building. The kids are really happy now.”