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Renard Johnson: “None of [the communication] took place.”

Featuring: Renard Johnson, Mayor of El Paso | Texas

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El Paso mayor blasts FAA for what he calls "unnecessary" airspace closure

Published | Video Starts at 04:46

… our chief of police, calling the public safety officers that we have in our community to alert them that we're going to be shutting down your airspace in your community. None of [the communication] took place. So we woke up just like many of you, and at midnight last night, one in the morning, to the texts and the calls that we received that our airspace was shut down. (04:46–04:49)

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Asserts that there was no communication from the FAA to local authorities.

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