Justin J. Pearson

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621 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 11 Aug

Justin J. Pearson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Don Lemon Show · Voting Rights, Young Voters, and Growing Fear Around the Hantavirus! · 8 May 2026 podcast

And so I ran up the stairs to the gallery

And I knew one of the troopers, they brought in a lot of troopers who aren't typically working at the Capitol, who don't know us, don't know how things typically operate.

And I said, look, all right, y'all got him, but he can walk down.

And one of the troopers, you can't hear it very clearly till the end, but one of the troopers says, okay, that's fine.

Who I know and have gotten to know over these past few years serving in the state house.

But this other guy just refused to let him go and started grabbing me too.

And I tell him, my brother, he can walk out of here.

He's going to walk out of here.

And then that's when what you see sort of ensues.

And you can hear a trooper saying, the supervisor saying, let Rep Pearson go, let Rep Pearson go.

But this one guy, he didn't want to.

But this is what's happening when you've got someone like Cameron Sexton, who's operating as the grand wizard of the Tennessee House of Representatives, directing the

and forcing troopers to take certain actions.

These troopers don't know us.

They have and live with racism and white supremacy in their hearts.

They got these badges, right, which make them think they're better than you, whether you're an elected representative or not.

And it's a position of power.

They're saying, I have more power than you.

And you know these dynamics that happen between law enforcement and black people all the time.

uh in our country and that was one of those those moments but he grabbed my brother kept grabbing my brother after he was told to let him go by his own supervisor and that that's what that's what that's what led to that attention exchange

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