Repeat Offender to White House Guest: The Revealing Rise of Expelled Tennessee Lawmaker Justin Jones

In 2020, as demonstrations and riots over the murder of George Floyd swept across the country, Justin Jones was arrested for allegedly assaulting a driver during a protest in Nashville.

Jones, now a Tennessee state representative, to hear the Associated Press tell it, is being “heralded” as one of two “living echoes of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, when leaders like King and John Lewis organized protests across the American South.”