{"id":327546,"date":"2025-10-23T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/327546\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T22:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:23:11","slug":"dallas-mayors-office-denies-security-concerns-led-to-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/327546\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas mayor&#8217;s office denies \u2018security concerns\u2019 led to absence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>DALLAS<\/strong> &#8211; Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson was a no-show at a scheduled public event on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">That sparked some confusion and the announcement that the mayor\u2019s public appearances are temporarily canceled due to security concerns.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">But the mayor\u2019s office said it\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n<p> Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/S_DALLAS-PARKS-COALITION-ANNOUNCEMENT-530P_KDFW395_00.00.16.36.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What&#8217;s new:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Workforce Czar Lynn McBee told the audience at an event to mark a new partnership between the city and Goodwill that the mayor was not in attendance because of an issue surrounding his security. No specifics were provided.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;I want to share Mayor Johnson had planned to be with us today, but was recently advised his public appearances are being temporarily suspended for security reasons,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Instead of his public appearance, a video that Johnson filmed on Wednesday was played.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">However, after the event, the mayor\u2019s spokesperson denied the claim, noting that he had attended a public event on Thursday morning and has more events scheduled in the days ahead.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Mayor Johnson recently gained national attention after a dispute with Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Johnson criticized Comeaux for rejecting a $25 million offer to partner with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The mayor has previously told FOX News that he would support efforts by President Donald Trump to deport undocumented migrants accused of violent crimes.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">He argued decisions involving $25 million deals should be reviewed publicly. Johnson also said the partnership could be a way to bring in money that the city and police department need.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">We don\u2019t know if Johnson\u2019s recent comments created any security concerns, and his office denies that security issues had anything to do with his absence on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">However, Johnson\u2019s office did not elaborate on his whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this story comes from a Workforce Dallas and Goodwill Dallas event announcing a major partnership and a statement from Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson&#8217;s spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/organization\/dallas-council\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas City Council<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson was a no-show at a scheduled public event on Thursday.\u00a0 That sparked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":327547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,51560,7290,50,12632,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-327546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-council","11":"tag-dallas-county","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-organization","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115425824981811057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}