Showing posts with label Dorian Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dorian Johnson. Show all posts

Monday, June 15, 2015

The Tough Life Of Dorian Johnson (sarcasm)

June 15, 2015 Associated Press , Dorian Johnson 0 Comments
Friend Who Witnessed Michael Brown's Death Due In Court

By Jim Suhr, Jun. 15, 2015, Associated Press

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The friend who was with Michael Brown last summer when 18-year-old Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer made his first court appearance Monday on a misdemeanor charge linked to an unrelated incident involving police last month.

Dorian Johnson, 23, declined to comment to The Associated Press after the brief hearing ultimately postponed until July 13 after neither of his attorneys showed up. Neither attorney responded to messages seeking comment.

Prosecutors on May 7 charged Johnson with resisting arrest or interfering with a lawful stop or detention, alleging that he tried to hinder the previous day's arrest of his younger brother, 21-year-old Demonte Johnson, "by using or threatening the use of violence, physical force or physical interference."

Johnson and Brown were walking in a Ferguson street last August when white police officer Darren Wilson confronted them. Wilson shot and killed Brown, who was black and unarmed, following a scuffle.

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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Shouldn't Darren Wilson be suing HIM?

May 06, 2015 Dorian Johnson , Michael Brown Shooting 0 Comments
Witness To Michael Brown Shooting Sues Ferguson And Darren Wilson 


By NBC News, May 5, 2015

A witness to a police officer's fatal shooting of Michael Brown last summer in Ferguson, Missouri, has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was wrongly stopped and fired on during the encounter on a city street.

The lawsuit, filed last week by Dorian Johnson, claims that the officer, Darren Wilson, fired at him and Brown as they ran away from him on Aug. 9. The lawsuit claims Wilson targeted him without probable cause.


"Officer Wilson acted with either deliberate indifference and/or reckless disregard toward" Johnson, the lawsuit says.

The suit also cited many of the Departmet of Justice findings, arguing that the city and former Police Chief Thomas Jackson "facilitated, encouraged and/or instigated" biased police behavior, including the "excessive force" used against Brown and Johnson.

The lawsuit seeks $25,000 in damages.

A Ferguson spokesman said the city would not comment on pending litigation.

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Now he's suing Ferguson, Darren Wilson

May 06, 2015 Dorian Johnson , Ferguson 0 Comments
ICYMI: St. Louis Reporter: Dorian Johnson, Now Hired by City As a Temp, 'Rose to Fame' in Michael Brown Saga

Source:  MSNBC
By Tom Blumer, Dec. 10, 2014, Newsbusters

St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Nick Pistor has quite an odd take on Dorian Johnson, the closest eyewitness to the killing of Michael Brown by Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson in early August.

The occasion enabling Pistor to publicly purvey his perception was news on Monday that Johnson had taken a job with the City of St. Louis. Before getting to those details, let's look at Pistor's astonishing opening paragraph (bolds are mine throughout this post):

Michael Brown witness Dorian Johnson hired to do work for city of St. Louis

Dorian Johnson, who rose to fame as a witness to Michael Brown's fatal encounter with Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, has been hired to do work for the city of St. Louis.

"Rose to fame"? How about "became infamous"?

A montage of key figures in the Brown killing at the Post-Dispatch (click through to number 4 at the link) describes Johnson as follows:

Johnson, 22, was walking with Brown when they encountered Wilson. Johnson was with Brown during the incident a short time before at the Ferguson Market and Liquor.

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

STAR witness?!

August 21, 2014 Darren Wilson , Dorian Johnson 1 Comments
Star Witness In Michael Brown Shooting Previously Charged With Theft, Filing False Police Report

Photo: KSDK-TV, St. Louis / USA Today
Aug. 21, 2014, IJReview.com

Dorian Johnson, the primary witness to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, has an outstanding warrant for a 2011 theft in Jefferson City and pleaded guilty for filing a false police report related to that theft.

 St. Louis ABC affiliate ABC 17 cross referenced Johnson’s name against several records and discovered the warrant.

 Johnson will be the star witness for any potential prosecution proceedings against Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting of Brown. Johnson was walking with Brown when the shooting occurred.

 He has already done multiple media appearances where he falsely claimedBrown was shot by Wilson in the back. He also has claimed that Brown never reached for Wilson’s gun, was “shot like an animal” and that Brown had his hands up and told Wilson he was unarmed.

 Johnson’s claims helped inspire the protests and riots in Ferguson over the past 10 days, as well as the “Hands up, don’t shoot” rallying cry of the protesters and their supporters.

 The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has details about the 2011 charges against Johnson:

 During the summer after his first semester at Lincoln, Johnson was charged with a misdemeanor after giving police a false first name after he was arrested on suspicion of theft. He later pleaded guilty.

 He was accused of stealing a package containing a backpack belonging to someone else from an apartment complex. When he was arrested in that case, he identified himself as Derrick Johnson and said he was 16.

He is wanted for failing to appear in Jefferson City municipal court to answer to the theft charge, court officials said.

According to the Post-Dispatch, the president of the local chapter of the NAACP knew about the charges against Johnson, but the fact that he was guilty of lying to the police didn’t matter:

Adolphus Pruitt, president of the St. Louis NAACP chapter, which has been encouraging witnesses to come forward, said Johnson’s false report case “doesn’t concern me.”

“He’s been very clear about what occurred, and now we have … four others stating facts that support the statements he’s been making,” Pruitt said. “Why would that diminish other accounts that are relatively the same?”

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