Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., has continued to defend himself and refute the claims by the Trump administration that he crashed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference before federal officers shoved him outside the room, pushed him onto the floor and handcuffed him.

Padilla, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety, provided more details about the incident during a Thursday night interview on MSNBC -- where he said he was not a threat and merely raised his voice to ask a question.

The senator claimed he did not barge into the news conference, as alleged by Noem, but rather he was in the federal building for an approved scheduled briefing with representatives of the Northern Command. He said the meeting was delayed by Noem's news conference, where she discussed the use of the National Guard in the city.
Padilla said he decided to go listen to the news conference and asked the National Guard and FBI agents with him if he could go.

"We're, the whole time, being escorted in this federal building by somebody from the National Guard, somebody from the FBI. I've gone through screening. This is a federal building. And so, I tell them, 'Let's go listen to the press conference.' They escort me over to that room," Padilla told MSNBC.

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Forty-nine people were arrested in downtown LA on Thursday night: 33 for failure to disperse, 13 arrests for curfew violation, one for resisting a police officer and one for pointing a laser at an airship, the LAPD said.

One person was arrested on a robbery warrant following a detention for curfew, police said.

Over 500 people have been arrested in LA since the protests began one week ago.

-ABC News’ Alex Stone

A federal appeals court on Thursday delayed an order requiring the Trump administration to return control of the California National Guard to Gov. Gavin Newsom, dealing the administration a temporary reprieve to what would have been a major reversal of its policy on the protests in LA.

Earlier Thursday, a federal judge in California issued a temporary restraining order that would have blocked Trump's deployment of California National Guard troops during protests over immigration raids in LA and returned control of the Guard to Newsom, who did not consent to the Guard's activation.

The order was set to take effect on noon Friday local time, but a panel of three judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an administrative stay of the lower court’s order and set a hearing for June 17.

In a Friday morning post to Truth Social, Trump praised the appeals court's decision, saying once again, "If I didn’t send the Military into Los Angeles, that city would be burning to the ground right now."

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During a press conference on Thursday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass addressed how Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was physically removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference earlier in the day.

Bass said she has reached out to Padilla to express concern for his health and safety.

Addressing the incident, Bass said, "They've been threatening elected officials with arrests, and they just shoved and cuffed a sitting U.S. senator."

Bass highlighted that Padilla is the first Latino lawmaker to represent California in the U.S. Senate.

"He is not just any senator, he is the first Latino citizen senator," Bass said.

-ABC News' Irving Last

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced that a curfew will be in effect for protest-impacted parts of downtown Los Angeles beginning Tuesday night.

The curfew will be in effect from 8 p.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday, the mayor said during a press conference.

Bass said the curfew, which spans one-square mile in the downtown area, will likely be in place for multiple nights.

"Law enforcement will arrest individuals who break the curfew, and you will be prosecuted," the mayor said.