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
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he has a right to have a voice as elected official. it s not about a popularity contest when you re speaking to substantive policy issues. it is about the position that you represent and the constituency of who you are representing. and right now representative, your colleagues in the black caucus are holding a press conference we re monitoring that, and we ll bring you updates. you you ve mentioned how this is a personal issue to you. this is a personal issue to so many we are at the point where virtually no one is untouched by gun violence how do you see you, your colleagues, your constituents keeping up the pressure for change well, you know, these young people are amazing, and i think they re going to keep up that pressure and keep it up hard they say they re coming back on monday i believe that they will be there, and justin jones and ju justin pearson will be there as well and i you know, i m just going to do everything i can to make sure that they come back.
violence, the mass murder that has just taken place in nashville. i think that s the focus but secondly, the vote dilution or creating a second class citizenship of the voters of the area where those two members come from is of grave concern. we are looking into what legal recourses can take place, but i think the representative pearson was correct, even if the shelby county commissioner reappoints him, the question is will he be seated and that becomes a true legal question that we re going to be looking into. there was a moment on the tennessee house floor i want you to respond to. it was a moment where republican state representative andrew farmer scolds justin pearson and pearson responds let s watch. tennessee general assembly, that s why you re standing there because of that temper tantrum that day for that yearning to have attention. that s what you wanted well you re getting it now.
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