Democratic Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson erupted into a profanity-laced confrontation with a state trooper on the House chamber floor Thursday after lawmakers passed a new congressional redistricting map, the latest in a pattern of decorum-breaking conduct from the Memphis-area legislator.
Video circulating on social media shows Pearson shouting “The f*** is wrong with you?” and “You stupid motherf*****” at a law enforcement officer as state troopers surrounded him during the dispute, the Daily Caller reported. The confrontation followed the Tennessee House’s passage of a redistricting map that splits Memphis along new congressional lines and eliminates the Democrats’ advantage in the state’s 9th Congressional District.
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