Let me make something clear. This type of behavior from “peaceful protestors” won’t be tolerated. I will not stand for radicals physically & verbally assaulting my members. This behavior has no place or voice here. These folks have been arrested and charged with assault. #TNleg pic.twitter.com/ijQR8IzEiY
— Speaker Glen Casada (@GlenCasada) February 28, 2019
Where is the media attention to this?
Via Free Beacon:
Several activists protesting a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general during the Civil War, cornered Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada (R.) and other top Republican leaders in the state legislature in an elevator on Thursday.
The protesters at the state Capitol also shouted insults at Casada, who said he would support adding context to the bust or moving it to a museum if lawmakers support the decision, and some of his Republican colleagues.
The Tennessee Republican Caucus tweeted a video of the incident, showing the protesters calling the Republicans “racists” and accusing them of only letting white people on the elevator. Some of the protesters then singled out Casada by calling him a racist.