{"id":2600147,"date":"2026-05-07T21:23:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-dem-state-rep-freaks-out-so-badly-during-redistricting-debate-that-he-makes-physical-contact-with-cops\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:24:46","slug":"watch-dem-state-rep-freaks-out-so-badly-during-redistricting-debate-that-he-makes-physical-contact-with-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-dem-state-rep-freaks-out-so-badly-during-redistricting-debate-that-he-makes-physical-contact-with-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Dem State Rep Freaks Out So Badly During Redistricting Debate That He Makes Physical Contact with Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-dem-state-rep-freaks-out-so-badly-during-redistricting-debate-that-he-makes-physical-contact-with-cops%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2600147&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text describes a widely shared video from Tennessee in which State Rep. justin Pearson physically interferes with state troopers while they try to remove protesters who disrupted a redistricting debate. The article claims Pearson also verbally assaults a trooper-shouting at him and using profane language-while troopers initially avoid escalating the confrontation. It further portrays Pearson\u2019s behavior as part of a broader pattern of aggressive, disrespectful conduct toward law enforcement, contrasting it with the expectations of elected officials and government proceedings. The piece also references earlier incidents involving Pearson and argues that such behavior reflects what the author sees as a broader Democratic \u201clawlessness\u201d in pursuit of political goals, urging voters not to forget this ahead of midterms.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>One of Tennessee\u2019s most notorious lawmakers is pushing his way back into the news \u2014 by pushing around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/revolution-is-coming-protesters-risk-arrest-block-roads-in-florida-to-demand-biden-support-pro-democracy-demonstrations\/\" title=\"\u2018Revolution Is Coming!\u2019: Protesters Risk Arrest, Block Roads In Florida To Demand Biden Support Pro...Democracy Demonstrations\">highway patrol troopers<\/a> trying to keep the peace.<\/p>\n<p>State Rep. Justin Pearson \u2014 a Democrat in case there was any doubt \u2014 inserted himself into a melee Thursday as troopers tried to remove obnoxious protesters who were disrupting debate on redistricting in the Volunteer State.<\/p>\n<p>Even by post-George Floyd standards, the video is shocking. But it teaches a lesson Americans shouldn\u2019t forget.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did Pearson make physical contact with law enforcement \u2014 normally a no-no for anyone, much less an elected official \u2014 he verbally assaulted a state trooper just for doing his job.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly taking advantage of his position as a lawmaker, he started screaming \u201cBoy!\u201d into the trooper\u2019s face, called him what sounded like a \u201cstupid m*****f****r.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check it out here, to get your blood boiling:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What\u2019s wrong with him??? The State House is not the hood.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sharon Cole (@FreedomMimi1313) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreedomMimi1313\/status\/2052466118686584868?\">May 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Americans who follow politics should recognize Pearson.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s a 2017 graduate of Maine\u2019s Bowdoin College \u2014 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-anti-woke-college-trustee-picks-desantis-chips-away-at-the-political-poison-in-education\/\" title=\"With Anti...Woke College Trustee Picks, DeSantis Chips Away At The Political Poison In Education\">liberal arts institution<\/a> that was costing roughly $60,000 a year of tuition in Pearson\u2019s day \u2014 and the kind of fraud who shed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/expelled-dem-dubbed-total-fraud-old-video-emerges-something-different-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clean-cut, grammatically correct campus geek image<\/a> to grow a \u2018fro and rebrand himself as a throwback to the civil rights movement.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the progressive opportunist who used the 2023 massacre at a Nashville Christian school to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/state-capitol-becomes-madhouse-gop-expel-democrats-reps-incite-riot-floor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">instigate a gun control riot<\/a> in the state Capitol \u2014 and got expelled from the legislature only to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/state-rep-justin-pearson-reinstated-to-tennessee-house-after-expulsion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">returned almost immediately<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s the kind of hothead who needed to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-5-men-escort-woke-rep-tn-chamber-charged-gop-colleague-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">physically restrained<\/a> while lunging at a political opponent during another gun control clash in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In short, he\u2019s a perfect avatar of the contemporary Democratic Party: arrogant, contemptuous, and essentially lawless when it comes to his political agenda. He\u2019s a black, male version of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/07\/us-news\/aoc-now-insists-she-grew-up-between-bronx-suburbs-but-locals-near-her-childhood-home-are-still-confused\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> \u2014 a product of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/justin-pearson-17-wins-princeton-policy-fellowship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comfortable upbringing<\/a> (his father is a preacher, his mother is a teacher) who enjoys the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/justin-pearson-17-wins-princeton-policy-fellowship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">frisson<\/a> of feeling part of the poor, affecting ignorance in his diction and passion in his politics, and he\u2019s clearly <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >completely comfortable showing utter disdain<\/a> for law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>(Remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/aoc-smirks-arrested-capitol-police-outside-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AOC smirking<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-aoc-appears-fake-handcuffs-removed-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pretending<\/a> to be \u201carrested\u201d during a 2022 pro-abortion demonstration outside the Supreme Court?)<\/p>\n<p>In Pearson\u2019s case on Thursday, he was coming to the defense of his older brother Keshaun Pearson \u2014 an activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DVd4GlgEZOr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in his own right<\/a> \u2014 who\u00a0was part of a crowd raising a ruckus in the public gallery, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/watch-rep-justin-pearson-gets-into-heated-confrontation-with-thp-troopers-during-special-session\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WREG-TV<\/a> in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>Video clearly showed Pearson shoving his way through state troopers, who reacted by raising their hands, conspicuously avoiding a confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>(If things had truly gotten physical, it looks like any one of them could have squashed him like a bug.)<\/p>\n<p>It shows him screaming and all but spitting in the face of one particular trooper, and in general behaving like a Quentin Tarantino update on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0162650\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shaft<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I didn\u2019t know Tennessee elected THUGS. Maybe he needs to face expulsion for treating an officer like this.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dakota DeWitt (@realDakotaD12) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDakotaD12\/status\/2052475722074046806?\">May 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Outside the halls of government, this kind of scene has become almost routine since the chaos of 2020, when rioters nationwide burned cities down over the death of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/forensic-pathologist-found-george-floyd-home-amount-fentanyl-meth-overdose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drug-addled<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverthenetworks.org\/other\/george-floyds-criminal-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ex-con<\/a> who was caught trying to pass a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/19\/us\/george-floyd-bill-counterfeit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">counterfeit $20 bill<\/a> in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Leftist mobs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wife-retired-cop-slain-riot-unloads-calls-blm-terrorist-organization-blasts-supervillain-vp-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abetted by Democratic politicians<\/a>, have long since declared war on anything even resembling respect for law and order.<\/p>\n<p>But for a sitting lawmaker to assail a state trooper \u2014 a man who was simply keeping order in what is supposed to be a place where the government conducts business \u2014 takes that contempt to a shocking new level. And it\u2019s a level only leftists want to reach.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Completely unacceptable behavior by anyone, let alone an elected representative. This racist needs to be addressed by the Tennessee Legislature and Dumbocrats!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Donahue (@JamesDonahue20) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesDonahue20\/status\/2052467556519162364?\">May 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Going back to the Clinton presidency, Democrats have shown an ever-increasing contempt for the law when it comes to pursuing their political agenda. (Or, in Clinton\u2019s case, pursuing a more\u2026 physical agenda.)<\/p>\n<p>Pearson\u2019s actions on Thursday, revolting as they were, put that attitude on display in living color. 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