Mayor says he wasn’t aware of aides’ inspector general complaint before firing them

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday said he was not aware of a hostile work environment complaint two of his top aides filed months before he fired them last week.

Last week, the mayor fired his deputy mayor for community safety, Garien Gatewood, and his director of violence prevention and community safety, Manny Whitfield.

Five months before they were fired, Whitfield and Gatewood filed a complaint with the city’s Office of Inspector General, accusing two of the mayor’s most senior staffers of creating a hostile work environment…

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