Chaos erupts again at Tennessee Capitol amid vote to oust Democratic lawmakers from office

Chaos erupts again at Tennessee Capitol amid vote to oust Democratic lawmakers from office following protests on House floor

Protesters returned to the Tennessee State Capitol to protest the impeachment of three Democratic senators

A group of violent protesters stormed the Tennessee State Capitol on Thursday to protest a vote in the State House to impeach three lawmakers for disrupting the State House floor in Nashville last week during protests over the use of prevent gun control.

Protesters, gathered in and behind the Capitol in Nashville, chanted to call on lawmakers to act on gun control, and to vote against impeaching the three lawmakers from their positions in the House. "No more silence, no more armed violence", chanted the audience. As lawmakers entered the chamber, dozens of protesters dressed in March for Our Lives costumes chanted, "Free, free, free, leave three Tennessee."

The complaint comes after Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton, a Republican, said Wednesday that Democratic state representatives. Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson will have their chance for due process when they face the impeachment of the majority of Republicans for disrupting the House process to lead the protesters to the high balcony last Thursday.

"I want to make sure that everybody knows that this has nothing to do with the protests outside the House or the protests outside the Capitol," Sexton told Bill Hemmer on Fox News on Wednesday. “It is about the behavior of these three members on the floor of the House, how they shut us down and how they led the protest from the chamber of the House to these people [people] in the balcony. "

Sexton told Hemmer that he would vote to impeach the three Democrats who caused the chaos, arguing that their behavior had reached a level of misconduct that required their removal. Jones, responding to calls from Republicans for his impeachment, charged in a tweet Tuesday that it was "stupid" for his GOP colleagues to respond to the Covenant school shooting by retaliating against the gesture of being n 'together with the electorate. calls for strong weapons. process management.

"What is happening in Tennessee is a clear threat to democracy across the country," he wrote. Sexton responded to the complaint on Fox News: "He's trying to make this about the people complaining. He's trying to make this about the things people are complaining about. Their voices did not stop. It has nothing to do with anything that happened outside the premises of the House,” he said. "These three people ran into the well that you are talking about by ignorance, they did not show any maintenance, broke the order where we had to close, took out the machine and started to lead the balcony and complain for 30 to 45 minutes. next."

"Their actions on the floor of the House reached the level of eviction. We cannot allow this kind of thing to happen in the People's House," he added. Republicans voted on Monday to remove three senators from their committee jobs, a move Jones responded to in a separate tweet, writing in part: "We will not be bullied. We were killed in schools."

Anti-gun protests at the Capitol followed the horrific shooting at Covenant School in Nashville in which Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old transgender gunman, opened fire, killing six people inside the building, including three children.