today, members of nashville metropolitan council took step to undo the tennessee stat houses undemocratic expulsio of two black lawmakers this was the scene, just a little over an hour ago, whe the tennessee stat representative, justin jones triumphantly returned to wor as a state legislator. accompanied by thunderou applause from the gallery, jones strolled right past some of the 72 republicans who vote to expel him on trumped up charges. ready to get right back to work, and all day, he was joined by massive crowd, protesting in support of the democraticall elected lawmakers, who wer unjustly removed from office under contrived circumstances. last week, the republican hous voted to remove jones, and another man named justin pearson, he s the man on the right. for minor rules violations so-called, decorum violations. stemming from a protest that they led on gun reform, notably, the legislature did not remove a third lawmaker, the woman in the middle of the screen, wh helped lead the p
expulsion and cnn tonight starts right now, thanks for joining us. good evening, everyone. i m alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight. turmoil in the tennessee state house tonight to democratic state reps were expelled for so called decorum violations, but there s much more to this story. what we re seeing is a very dangerous um, step in tennessee. that should signal to the nation that this is if it can happen here can happen anywhere. it s hurting people killing people, and they re treating things like this is normal. we can never normalize the ending of democracy. should america be worried about what we ve seen here today? america should absolutely be worried about what we ve seen here today. okay. in a moment, i will speak to that. woman live representative gloria johnson, who narrowly survived the expulsion vote. this controversy started last week after three children and three school officials were shot to
happening in tennessee tonight, calling the expulsion of the two black democratic lawmakers in tennessee over their protests of gun violence, quote, shocking, undemocratic and without precedent. alison camerata has the third who narrowly avoided expulsion and cnn tonight starts right now, thanks for joining us. good evening, everyone. i m alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight. turmoil in the tennessee state house tonight to democratic state reps were expelled for so called decorum violations, but there s much more to this story. what we re seeing is a very dangerous, um, step in tennessee. that should signal to the nation that this is if it can happen here can happen anywhere. it s hurting people killing people, and they re treating things like this is normal. we can never normalize the ending of america. be worried about what we ve seen here today. america should absolutely be worried about what we ve seen here today. okay in a
republicans for their protests over guns. i want to be clear, the protest over asking for legislation to stop the massacre of children. two of them black were expelled yesterday by the republican super majority one lawmaker, gloria johnson, an older white woman, narrowly avoided expulsion. tonight, fears about the precedent this sets and the potential for a kind of revenge politics spreading to other states this is what happens when you lose democracy cries of anger and accusations after an extraordinary move by tennessee house republicans. expelled for so-called decorum violations it might have to do with the color of our skin. it looked like a jim crow era trial. if could happen in tennessee, it could happen anywhere. the first partisan expulsion in the state s modern history.