you cannot ignore the racia dynamic of what happened today two young black lawmaker getting expelled and the one white woman does not that is a statement in and o itself but you will be bac [inaudible we will be back i believe memphis an willington will bounce back, w will keep fighting for our communities because the status quo is not working it is hurting people, killin people, and they are treatin things like this is normal we can never normalize the ending of democracy. we can never normalize the tyranny of the way that thes people in positions of power are operating, due to whit supremacy and due to the maintenance of patriarchy. that s what we re up against but we will fight it because w believe that there is a future
expelled you cannot ignore the racia dynamic of what happened today two young black lawmaker getting expelled and the one white woman does not that is a statement in and o itself but you will be bac [inaudible we will be back i believe memphis an willington will bounce back, w will keep fighting for our communities because the status quo is not working it is hurting people, killin people, and they are treatin things like this is normal we can never normalize the ending of democracy. we can never normalize the tyranny of the way that thes people in positions of power are operating, due to whit supremacy and due to the maintenance of patriarchy. that s what we re up against but we will fight it because w believe that there is a future that we are that is better than the presen that we currently have [inaudible anything else you want to say? we will keep fighting for people in nashville, in memphis, across the state of tennessee, and across the united states o america, who wan
that we are that is better than the presen that we currently have [inaudible anything else you want to say? we will keep fighting for people in nashville, in memphis, across the state of tennessee, and across the united states o america, who want justice. we deserve it. this is our birthright, ou inheritance is not just some pieces of paper in constitutions and rules. it s the advocacy and th willingness to protest for what s right, to create and to advocate for laws tha make justice more possible and so, that s what we re goin to do. thank you, sir. god bless you that is justin pearson, he one of the representatives tha was expelled today, along with justin jones and other representative, another as he, said young black man elected b the constituents and voters in their district to represen them in the house and no expelled by that same house. the choice of those individual in those districts rejected by the overwhelmingly white majority of the republican caucus in the
confrontation much longer. documents show one of the officers involved in the beating took a photo of nichols while he was bloodied and beaten and propped up against the police car. after he took the photo, he text it to at least five people. violating department policy, among other things. live for us in memphis is antonia hylton is back. eddie joins us, the chair of african-american studies at princeton university. david is still with us. antonia, stel tel me how this piece of reporting fills in some of the flashing yellow lights around the horrific tragedy. reporter: those lights might be red at this point. the community here has just been in shock. i spent all day at one of the most popular restaurants called arcade. it s the oldest restaurant here that s been serving regulars here forever. and people were strugging to
all right. here we are on overtime. we re on are we really on cnn now? cnn, what did they go nuts putting us on there? no, i m thrilled. the world needs a good cnn, so i m very happy that we can help out any way we can. [ applause ] rondo is really the name they call you, isn t it? yes. i love that name. don t have his jumper. no, you don t. so the first question is for you. do police need better training in de-escalation tactics? obviously a question on a lot of people s mind this week. you know, the actuality is that police are getting some of the finest training that they can possibly get. i think when situations occur like in memphis, it certainly