In an act of political retaliation, Tennessee Republicans expel two Democrats from the state legislature for their role in a protest that called for more gun control in the aftermath of a school shooting in Nashville.
"We are losing our democracy. This is not normal. This is not OK," Mr Pearson told reporters as he waited to learn whether he would also be banished.
Ms Johnson, a retired teacher, said her concern about school shootings was personal, recalling a day in 2008 when students came running toward her out of a cafeteria because a student had just been shot and killed there.Protesters gathered inside and outside the state capitol in Nashville in support of the Democrats.
The trio held hands as they walked onto the house floor, and Mr Pearson raised his fist to the crowd during the Pledge of Allegiance. "We called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy," he said."I'll be out there with the people every week, demanding that you act," he said.Republican Gino Bulso said the three Democrat representatives "effectively conducted a mutiny"."He does not even recognise that what he did was wrong. So not to expel him would simply invite him and his colleagues to engage in mutiny on the house floor.
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