Dorian Johnson, the man who invented the “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” hoax that sparked riots across America, has been murdered.
A suspect is in custody, but no details have been released yet.
Dorian Johnson, the friend who witnessed Michael Brown’s death was shot and killed Sunday morning less than a mile away from where a police officer killed Brown.https://t.co/6foLEFLVPZ
— St. Louis Public Radio (@stlpublicradio) September 7, 2025
Johnson was the miscreant who invented the story that sparked years of controversy, accusing the police officer who shot Brown of cold-blooded murder. The reality was far different: Michael Brown attacked Officer Darren Wilson while Wilson was in his car, lunging for the officer’s gun.
Johnson claimed, bizarrely, that Wilson attacked Brown first–an amazing feat, given that Brown was outside the vehicle standing up while Wilson was sitting down. Wilson did get out of his car, but the first two shots were fired while he was in the police vehicle.
Johnson was shot multiple times this morning, just minutes walking distance from the site of Brown’s shooting. I suspect his family wished that a police officer had been nearby at the time.
The friend who witnessed Michael Brown’s death was shot and killed Sunday morning less than a mile from where a police officer killed Brown.
The Ferguson Police Department confirmed Dorian Johnson died of injuries sustained during the shooting that occurred around 8:30 a.m. Sunday on the 9600 block of Abaco Court.
The location of the shooting is just 15 minutes away by foot from where Ferguson officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Brown on Canfield Drive.
Ferguson Police public information officer Patricia Washington said that one suspect is in custody in relation to the shooting and that a warrant has been submitted to St. Louis County.
She added that earlier rumors that the shooting involved police were not true.
Washington said the investigation into Johnson’s death is ongoing.
The Brown shooting was extensively investigated, and the story that Brown was shot in cold blood was conclusively proven to be false. Witnesses who confirmed Johnson’s story later admitted that they changed their story to back him up.
An Associated Press review of the grand jury found numerous problems in the witness testimony, including statements that were “inconsistent, fabricated, or provably wrong”. Several of the witnesses admitted changing their testimony to fit released evidence, or other witness statements.[128] Prosecuting attorney Robert McCulloch said, “I thought it was important to present anybody and everybody, and some that were, yes, clearly not telling the truth, no question about it.”[129]
The Department of Justice investigation into the shooting determined witnesses who corroborated Wilson’s account were credible while those who contradicted Wilson’s account were not. The witnesses that claimed Brown was surrendering or did not move toward Wilson were not credible; the report said their claims were inconsistent with the physical evidence, other witness statements, and in some cases prior statements from the same witness. No witness statements that pointed to Wilson’s guilt were determined to be credible.
Surprised? I am not. There was a Narrative™ to be pushed, and little things like the facts of the matter could not be allowed to contradict the “innocent boy shot by nasty police” story that the media instantly gravitated to.
Johnson’s story sparked riots and murders of police officers, and is still repeated all the time despite having be proven to be false.
Michael Brown attacked a cop multiple investigations, including 3 autopsies . He grabbed Wilson’s gun & was charging at him when he was killed in a 100% justified shooting. 12 years later & they’re still lying about it https://t.co/sXbrDVN3uJ
— Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) (@IamSean90) August 9, 2025
You may recall that the photograph of Brown in news stories was several years old, showing him to be a young teen, rather than the more recent photos of him as a hulking young man. It was a perfect way to spin the story.
Michael Brown would be 28-years-old today if not for an evil yt cop having the audacity to defend himself from a charging bull. A future astronaut and/or Supreme Court Justice clerk, taken before his time. RIP. pic.twitter.com/MDgWWMSIdJ
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) May 21, 2024
Wilson stopped Brown and Johnson for a simple reason: they were walking in the middle of a street in the dead of night, and the area in which they were doing so was crime-ridden. So crime-ridden that Johnson himself has been murdered.
The myth of Michael Brown has helped fuel unnecessary racial animus, which was the point. I am not thrilled that Johnson has been killed, but his story helped stoke the environment where policing has been made infinitely more difficult, so I see the irony.
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