Biden weighs in after Tennessee vote to expel Black lawmakers. | ManilaBulletin
Biden spoke via phone with the "Tennessee Three" and "thanked them for their leadership in seeking to ban assault weapons," a White House statement said.The Republican-led Tennessee House of Representatives expelled two Black lawmakers on Thursday after they disrupted an assembly session to demand stricter gun controls in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at an elementary school. A third white legislator who joined their protest was not removed.
On March 30, just days after a shooting rampage at a Christian school killed six people, legislators Justin Jones, Justin Pearson and Gloria Johnson joined hundreds of protesters on the state House floor to challenge lawmakers to favor stricter gun control. Their protest followed the shooting death of three young students and three staff at a private Christian elementary school in the state capital on March 27.
Jones, 27, and Pearson, 28, delivered impassioned pleas against their exclusion and a photo of them raising their fists went viral.
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