Jackson, a physician who was responding to a medical emergency, then berated the officers and threatened to report them to the governor.
being taken to the ground by officers, profanely berating them and threatening to report them to the governor during an altercation at a rodeo last month.
“I’m going to call the governor tomorrow and I’m going to talk to him about this , because this is ridiculous,” Jackson can later be heard telling a state trooper, his voice raised. “Congressman Jackson, as a trained ER physician, will not apologize for sparing no effort to help in a medical emergency, especially when the circumstances were chaotic and the local authorities refused to help the situation,” Lair said. Chris and Jodi Jordan said they were at the rodeo in White Deer, a small town outside the Panhandle city of Amarillo, and witnessed some of what happened.
The Jordans said that after the incident they discussed talking to news reporters about what they had seen with an aide to Jackson. The congressman’s office referred The Associated Press to the couple.
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