Dorian Johnson, Ferguson Protestor Who Popularized 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot,' Dies in Shooting
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Dorian Johnson, a friend of Mike Brown who was present during his fatal officer-involved shooting, was also fatally shot over the weekend.
CNN reports that the 33-year-old was involved in a shooting at around 8:30 a.m. on Sunday in Ferguson, Missouri. The location of the incident was less than a mile from where Brown died on Canfield Drive.
Melissa Price Smith, St. Louis County prosecuting attorney, told the outlet that police detained a suspect, whom they later released and didn't charge.
"This appears to be a domestic incident involving a claim of self-defense," she said in a statement. She shared that the investigation between her office and the Ferguson police remains open.
The Ferguson police refuted rumors that an officer shot Johnson.
"There had been earlier rumors that this was an officer-involved shooting; however, that information is incorrect. No officers, Ferguson or otherwise, were involved in this incident other than to begin our investigation," the police department said in a Facebook statement.
White police officer Darren Wilson fatally shot Brown on Aug. 19, 2014 in Ferguson. At the time, Johnson said he was with Brown during the incident. During the initial confrontation, Wilson shot Brown in the hand through the driver's side window of the police car. The confrontation continued moments later, when Wilson opened fire again on Brown, shooting him a total of six times.
Johnson later told police that Brown had faced Wilson and held up his hands, but Johnson's claim was contested after a DOJ investigation revealed varying accounts from other witnesses. Still, Johnson's account of the shooting galvanized the "hands up, don't shoot" chant that took over protests that year.
Wilson later claimed self-defense in court and was ultimately not indicted by a grand jury. Brown's family later sued the city of St. Louis for wrongful death, which was settled in 2017.
In addition to Johnson, several others connected to the Mike Brown protests have mysteriously died since 2014.
In 2019, NBC reported that six other men who had ties to Ferguson had also died. Two men—Deandre Joshua and Darren Seals—were found dead inside scorched vehicles; MarShawn McCarrel, Edward Crawford Jr., and Danye Jones allegedly died by suicide; and Bassem Masri died of an apparent overdose on a bus.
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The man who told one of the most famous lies in contemporary history is dead.
CNN is infamous for spreading it when some of its anchors rose up and repeated "Hands up, don't shoot," and marched off.
The amount of damage to our society this guy did is incalculable. Even a decade later, some democratic leaders will claim Brown was murdered. If the leaders can say it publicly with no pushback, it means the belief is widespread among the audience.
It is a narrative that the left holds onto.
Yep. people died. A city was burned and a country radicalized over a completely made up story and there's absolutely no remorse for pushing it.
That one and "I can't breathe". I don't know how many arrest video's there are where the clown being arrested shrieks that line.
So, why is there more information about Darren Wilson and the Ferguson PD than Dorian Johnson in this report?
It's pretty bad when the victim becomes a side note in reporting their own death. But, hey, the press doesn't do anything to be divisive.
Sad news but it does have a very karmic quality to it.
I imagine there are quite a few on the left circling this to see who celebrates this death.