Footage has been unearthed of disgraced Tennessee state representative Justin Jones stopping cars and assaulting drivers during summer protests outside of the state Capitol in 2020.
Jones had claimed at the time that the narrative that he was violent was false.
"In June of 2020, Justin Bautista-Jones, better known as 'Brother Jones' locally, was one of the publicly visible protestors at the State Capitol. He received a lot of pushback from his own community after it was discovered he was often only making appearances when he knew there would be media coverage, and eventually had a falling out with one of the other most visible female members of the group."
On Monday afternoon, Jones, a Democrat who was expelled for leading an anti-gun protest into the storming of state Capitol last month, was reinstated to the House.
The Nashville Metropolitan Council voted unanimously to reinstate Jones.
Jones had claimed that his removal was due to a "White supremacist system."
"Though their vote was racist, though their vote was to expel the two youngest Black lawmakers, their attack on democracy hurts all of us, whether you're Black, brown or White, it's an assault on all of us" Jones said to Al Sharpton on MSNBC. In his incarnation as an activist, Jones was previously barred from contacting certain "Lawmakers and visiting the legislative building until April 22, 2020." This was the result of a seperate incident in which he was accused of throwing a cup of liquid at ex-House Speaker Glen Casada.
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