(DNAINFO)  Maya Rajamani | July 20, 2017 — Local Councilman Corey Johnson, who was was arrested in Washington Wednesday protesting efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, said that being HIV positive compelled him to demonstrate with dozens of others outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office.

“I’m very open about the fact that I’m HIV positive, and I’m lucky that I’m a City Council member, so I have good health insurance,” Johnson told DNAinfo New York on Thursday after returning to New York. “But there are millions and millions of people who would be immorally affected by a repeal.”

Johnson, chairman of the Council’s health committee, whose district includes Hell’s Kitchen, Chelsea, the West Village and parts of Flatiron, SoHo and the Upper West Side, was among at least 155 people arrested during the demonstrations Wednesday.

Source: Councilman Corey Johnson Talks About His Arrest During Health Care Protests – Chelsea – DNAinfo New York