Mayor Brandon Johnson staff member, reporter allegedly involved in physical altercation in DC

Friday, January 19, 2024
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Brandon Johnson is in Washington D.C. this week for the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Members of Mayor Johnson's staff allegedly got into some sort of confrontation with a reporter from Bloomberg News.
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Johnson has been meeting with leaders of other cities, as well as federal officials, making another push for funding to support the migrant crisis.

President Biden told a group of select mayors Friday that his team has been working with a group of bipartisan senators for a significant immigration policy change.

During the conference Friday, Bloomberg News reporter Ian Kullgren posted on X that he was shoved while trying to ask Mayor Johnson a question.
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Hours later, the mayor posted that it was a reporter who elbowed and shoved one of his senior aides.



ABC7 has reached out to the reporter for comment, but he and Bloomberg do not have a comment at this time.

No further information was immediately available.
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