Chicago reporter sues Mayor Lori Lightfoot as city pulls his press credentials following combative exchanges

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Chicago reporter William J. Kelly filed a lawsuit against Mayor Lori Lightfoot, whom he accused of violating his First Amendment rights after his press credentials were pulled.

A reporter asked Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot how she could even consider running for re-election after all the "harm" she's caused during a Tuesday press conference.and Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown after his press credentials were revoked. to the U.S.

Chicago's Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks during a science initiative event at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. July 23, 2020. A recording from Kelly of the July 19 incident shows him following Lightfoot after she avoided taking his question at a press conference and being physically blocked by her personnel. , which was previously shared by The Daily Caller, includes Kelly repeatedly shouting"Don't touch me" to her personnel, who immediately denied he touched the journalist.

Kelly noted that the incident came just one day after a combative exchange at a separate press conference where he grilled Lightfoot about her"taxpayer-funded business trip" to Paris"with your donors" asKelly, a contributing reporter for the Daily Mail, outlined some of his other fiery exchanges with Lightfoot including one from June 2021 when he pressed her on whether she owed the victims of violent crime in Chicago an apology, another form March 2022 questioning a press...

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