The Wichita, Kansas, Ethics Board ruled that Wichita City Council member Brandon Johnson violated the city’s ethics ordinance after taking part in an altercation with Kansas Rep. Ford Carr at a bar in the capital city of Topeka in early 2025, the Wichita Eagle reports.
The violation correlated to a confrontation between Johnson and Carr at Topeka’s Celtic Fox bar on Jan. 22 during a reception hosted by the city of Wichita, Sedgwick County, and the Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce. Witnesses claim Carr and Johnson, both Black men, began arguing about how the government responded to a massive groundwater contamination crisis that touched both officials’ districts near 29th and Grove in Wichita.
Several witnesses captured the incident on camera, resulting in it going viral on social media.
Police officer Brad Couch filed a complaint against Johnson, alleging he “used vulgar and racist language, provoked an assault, challenged an elderly man to engage in a physical fight, used offensive language, which disturbed the peace in a public place, and refused to calm down.” “I don’t have a problem beating my elder’s ass,” Johnson allegedly told Carr at one point during the argument…