Dorian Johnson, a 33-year-old Ferguson resident and alleged friend of Michael Brown, was shot dead in his own hood after the hosts characterize him as a criminal liar who fabricated the narrative that sparked Black Lives Matter. They argue his death serves a political motive to push Democrats rather than honor a hero, noting the dismissal of his civil rights lawsuit against former police chief Thomas Jackson and the officer who killed Brown. Ultimately, the discussion frames Johnson's demise as karma for his alleged strong-armed robberies, challenging the media's portrayal of him as a legend while questioning why the movement ignores his death at the hands of another Black man. [Automatically generated summary]
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Ferguson Flashbacks and Friend's Death00:03:46
Giving flashbacks to Ferguson and the killing of Michael Brown Jr.
This man, Dorian Johnson, was with Michael Brown the day he was shot and killed by police.
Yeah, this whole incident started the Black Lives Matter movement.
Yeah.
Gave it a lot of fuel.
Yeah, and not to mention that day, they was out robbing people.
Yeah.
Strong-armed robbery.
Yeah.
It's the textbook term for it.
Yeah.
Now we're learning Johnson has been shot and killed.
Early this morning, shots were fired in a Ferguson neighborhood and rumors started swirling about who was involved.
That shooting happened on Ibako Court just east of West Floriston Avenue.
First Alert 4 started making phone calls to find out if the rumors were true and we have confirmed the man shot and killed at the scene was Michael Brown Jr.'s friend, Dorian Johnson.
Our Jordan Burrell joins us Jr.'s friend, Dorian shot and killed at the scene.
Look how dilapidated.
The streets are not even...
You can't even see the names of the streets on the signs.
Yeah.
Well, you can't go there and pay them.
You get shot.
Scene was Michael Brown Jr.'s friend, Dorian Johnson.
Our Jordan Burrell joins us in the newsroom with more details.
That's reaction begins to pour in tonight, Jordan.
Yeah, good evening, Morgan.
It's a sad Sunday for many in Ferguson and beyond tonight.
Many mourning the loss of Dorian Johnson, the man who made national headlines for being the friend who was last with Michael Brown Jr. before he was killed.
On social media, people call the 33-year-old at St. Louis and Ferguson Legend.
That is that is nuts.
He's a legend.
Well, he's a legend in the black community.
Sebs and Hearns, the black community actually think that man's a hero?
Yeah.
It's a different world.
Different world.
Different planet.
Gone way too soon.
The man and friend of Michael Brown Jr. Dorian Johnson was there when police shot and killed Brown more than 10 years ago.
First Alert 4 spoke to him shortly after that incident.
He recalled the death of his friend.
He shot again, and once my friend felt that shot, he turned around and he put his hands in the air and he started to get down.
But the officer still approached with his weapon drawn and he fired several more shots.
When I saw that the first time, I said, oh, no, that's not what happened.
At least, you studied like this when you saying it.
Yeah, so he gave the impression that he was running.
He got shot in the back.
He felt that.
So he stopped.
He turned around.
He got on his knees.
And then the police officer approached him and finished him off.
Excuses.
That's not what happened.
That is a total lie.
Yeah, but this, I guess, his testimony and his activism of Black Lives Matter after this incident, that's why they label him as a hero, as a legend.
He's a liar.
Yeah, but that whole Black Lives Matter movement, if they really gave a damn about black people, they would have targeted things that afflicts the black community more than white police officers gunning like this one incident.
Why?
Why is Black Lives Matter not marching the streets right now after this dude's death?
Because it's not by a white police officer.
If it's by another black guy, nobody cares.
Nobody cares.
Right.
They only care when a white man does it.
Yeah.
And that also exposes the motive behind Black Lives Matter.
Yeah.
It gets something to galvanize black people to vote for Democrats.
He didn't think a certain way.
Yeah.
That pushed that political narrative.
Yeah.
On Sunday, 33-year-old Johnson became a victim himself, not even a mile from the spot that his friend was shot and killed 11 years ago.
That is crazy.
That is wild.
Yeah, it's a real thing.
Karma is real.
You would call it karma?
Yeah.
You're living a dirty life, stabbing people in the back, looking.
Why Black Lives Matter Stopped Marching00:03:10
Wherever you walk, you have to look over your shoulder.
Yeah, robbing people.
This dude's dead.
Yeah.
I mean, that day that His friend got gunned down by police, uh, which was later determined to be um in self-defense of the officer.
They had just robbed some guy at some convenience store, strong-armed robbery.
Yeah, dude lived an unclean life, and it catches up to you.
Now, when uh, me and you was a private investigator, and they would only send us to the black communities.
Yeah, I remember they sent us to Compton and Watts.
They would only send us because we were the only two black guys that worked there, right?
Yeah, they thought we was going to fit in, right?
And while we were in those communities investigating people, right?
All the black people are constantly looking over their shoulder.
When they come out, you can see people looking through that blinds and then their curtains, and then they'll come out and they'll be like this.
Look like damn groundhogs coming out off the ground, looking around for a damn hawk to come down and snatch them up.
You go into the inner city, you watch black people how they behave.
Just them simply, when they're simply just walking down the street, they're looking over their shoulder the entire time.
Yeah, and they're not looking for white people, right?
In the 9,000 block of Abaco Drive, Ferguson police say they were called around 8:30 Sunday morning for a man that had been shot.
They say Dorian Johnson later died at the hospital from his injuries.
First Alert 4 reached out to Dorian Johnson's family.
Look how hood them cars look.
That's an Oldsmobile.
I think that is a 1985 Oldsmobile.
Your dad had a car like that.
Yeah, but it wouldn't.
It didn't look like that.
Yeah, it looked like Pinky Johnson's.
That's a sub-Saharan Mozilla.
That is nuts.
Look at the rims in that pink car.
What an atrocity.
They have not responded.
We spoke to his grandmother, Brenda Johnson, back in 2015 after Johnson and his brother were arrested.
She had concerns about Dorian and their family after he made national headlines during the Ferguson unrest.
Dorian has his target on his back, so it makes it easy.
You know, well, if we can't get you to get to you, we'll get your brothers.
We'll get your family.
We'll get anybody.
That is nuts.
Why does he have a target on his back?
Yeah, she's making it seem like white people's after him for coming forward about what happened to Michael Brown.
That's what she's doing.
Yeah.
Ain't no white people going for your son.
It only makes sense if he's otherwise black people are after him.
Yeah.
Black people do not have a target on their back from white people.
Anybody that's close to you.
Ferguson police confirmed that an individual in custody and warrants have been applied for with the St. Louis County Prosecutor's Office.
While the investigation continues, an outpouring of love and support for Johnson and his family floods social media time.
Yeah, he's a hero in the black community.
But he lied about that whole incident.
Black people not did that due diligence and did their own research.
That was all a lie.
And they're still calling this dude a hero when he's a liar.
This is being reported by KMOV St. Louis.
Look how they're spending the story.
Right.
The Lie About Michael Brown Jr00:02:21
Dude was not a hero.
He was a criminal and a liar.
Yeah.
Timelines.
In 2015, Miss Horboy's dead.
Oh, of course.
I don't wish that on anybody, but of course.
They're acting like some famous religious person died.
Yeah.
They don't give this much news attention to a black priest who passes away.
Johnson filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Ferguson, the former police chief Thomas Jackson, and the officer who shot Brown.
That suit was dismissed by both parties at the end of 2024.
Yeah, because it was bogus.
Right.
Live in the newsroom, Jordan Burrell, first alert for story's nuts.
Wow, how they spent that story, man.
Yeah.
But that's why you would, why would you even run this dude's death on the news?
Knowing the facts about this man, this is news in the black community.
Yeah, dude was a criminal.
He was robbing people with that dude.
Yeah.
With what was his name?
Brown?
Michael Brown.
Michael Brown.
And the dude lied about what happened.
And y'all mourning his death.
Well, you should mourn everybody's death.
You know, would I mourn the devil's death?
Well, I wouldn't call him the devil kill.
I'm just as an analogy.
Would you mourn a serial killer's death?
No, he ain't a serial killer.
I ain't say he's a serial killer.
He's no saint either.
Yeah, yeah, I get that.
Why would you mourn his death?
Well, I'm sure he had loved ones.
People have loved him.
Yeah, everybody has doing that love him, but why do we celebrate and remember his life for the things he's done?
Hands up.
Don't shoot.
That was a lie.
That was a damn lie.
And now they're painting him like he.
And they're mourning his death on TV.
Like he, and they're and they're mourning him as if he's dead a lot for the black community.
I don't think he's did anything but lie.
He's a criminal.
He's a known criminal.
Yeah, and he never cleaned his life up.
Yeah.
And all that criminal activity he surrounds himself with led to the end of his life.
Yeah.
But they got him on the news and they're painting him like he's some kind of hero in the black community.
It's very weird.
Yeah, do you see white people mourning criminals' deaths?