morning nashville tennessee is the epicenter of an explosive intersection gun violence, racial tension, and seemingly insurmountable political division two black former tennessee lawmakers are now expelled from the state house for taking part in a gun reform protest last week deemed disorderly by the republican super majority. shouts of shame ringing out from protesters crowding in the halls of the capital during those closely watched votes. both men speaking out on the house floor emotional and defiant. we are still here and we will never quit we called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy a third colleague facing expulsion who is white surviving by a single vote i ll be joined in moments by that third member, state representative gloria johnson who weighed in yesterday about why she thinks she was spared and her black colleagues were not. why do you feel like there was a difference in the outcome between you and your colle
didn t have access to your. within three minutes after the vote on justin pearson and justin jones, they were removed from the website, but they didn t turn my badge back on or my garage opener, so i still my scooter is in the garage right now, and colleagues asked them to, you know, either meet me there so that we can open it up so i can get my scooter, get back in the building yes, i still don t have access. wow, representative, we heard you say earlier that race played a factor in this the speaker of the house accused you of bringing political racism into this. here s why he said you survived and your colleagues didn t. that s a false narrative on her part actually, she separated herself from the other two and said i didn t yell, i didn t scream i just stood there with them alongside them obviously the resolution was