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Mid-Missouri man describes repeated lies by witness in Michael Brown Shooting Case
fox2now ^ | 11-26-14

Posted on 11/26/2014 4:51:26 PM PST by doug from upland

JEFFERSON CITY, MO (KTVI) – We’re looking deeper into the criminal cases against a witness in the Michael Brown shooting.

Dorian Johnson pleaded guilty to lying to police in a 2011 theft case and a warrant still remains for his arrest. FOX2’s Chris Hayes went to Jefferson City to talk to a man who says he caught Johnson stealing and then listened to his repeated lies.

It started behind the Jefferson City YMCA, where Kelly Lewis, a maintenance man said he saw someone, later identified as Dorian Johnson, carrying a FedEx box from a nearby apartment complex.

“He picked the package up off D section, which I knew the lady that lived there, so I knew it wasn’t his package,” Lewis said.

Lewis said he followed and called police as he watched Johnson dump the box behind the YMCA.

A Jefferson City police report documents 19-year-old Dorian Johnson saying his “name was Derrick,” then claiming “he was 16.” Police said he then gave a “date of birth” which “would mean he was 17″ and told police “he had no identification.”

Lewis remembered, “He never told them the truth,” and described watching the runaround for about one hour.

“I looked down at his sock. I remember that’s where people carry IDs,” Lewis said. “I told the police officer that. I said I think his ID is in his sock, so the police officer checked it. He got out his ID and found out who he was.”

The Lincoln University student ID reportedly read “Dorian J. Johnson,” but the police report states Johnson said he was holding the ID card for someone else.

“To me it was a just a petty little thing that if he would’ve just stood up and told the truth, it would’ve been over,” Lewis said.

The police report shows it continued at the jail where Johnson signed a court summons with his false name “Derrick.” Then a Lincoln University police officer reportedly walked in the room. The report states, “Due to previous contacts with Johnson, he immediately recognized him as Dorian J. Johnson.”

Johnson pleaded guilty to making false statements. The theft case remains open with an active arrest warrant for failing to appear.

Johnson’s attorney, Freeman Bosley Jr., declined to respond on camera, but wrote that his client’s reported deception has “..nothing to do with a police officer shooting an unarmed man six times, two times in the head. This is called using excessive force.”

Bosley Jr. added that he’s filed an appearance on behalf of Johnson in Jefferson City, asking for a Judge to recall the arrest warrant.

It’s unclear if this could impact the Michael Brown shooting investigation. Other witnesses, including Piaget Crenshaw, also described Brown putting his hands up before a Ferguson officer shot him.

One unnamed witness, overheard in a YouTube video, appears to describe Brown coming towards the officer during the shooting. Since it appears nothing was captured on camera, jurors will be relying solely on who they believe, along with the physical evidence.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: furguson; michaelbrown; racebaiters; riotinglowlifes
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To: gopno1
Johnson’s Attorney, Freeman Bosley, Jr., currently has his law license suspended indefinitely for using client trust money to pay personal expenses. The stories write themselves sometimes!

He's also as incompetent as "his" president and Attorney General, and should be permanently disbarred (an affirmative action attorney?)What is this crap?
...Johnson’s attorney, Freeman Bosley Jr.,, ...wrote "that his client’s reported deception has nothing to do with a police officer shooting an unarmed man six times, two times in the head. This is called using excessive force.”
No one claimed that it did! Totally irrelevant to the challenge to his veracity as documented in his previous arrest, and failure to appear.

I'm no lawyer, but is a second grader's grasp of total non-sequiturs and irrelevancies normal to expect from a presumably licensed attorney?

21 posted on 11/26/2014 5:48:05 PM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
Am I correct in assuming that this Dorian Johnson gave testimony that was to be damaging to Wilson?

Absolutely!
Since he and the killer giant were stopped together, he was the first to spin a fanciful (and self-serving) version of events. Then repeated it endlessly until the evidence and other more adult witnesses embarrassingly proved all his statements to be total lies.

22 posted on 11/26/2014 5:54:10 PM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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23 posted on 11/26/2014 5:54:17 PM PST by RedMDer (I don't listen to Liars but when I do I know it's Barack Obama.)
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To: UCANSEE2
SO.... the guy who lies and steals has a lawyer who lies and steals ?

You decide.

Unfortunately the 80% in certain communities who lie, steal, kill, rape and mug spoils it for honest 20%, who, sadly, live in perpetual denial about their drug-dealing and using little kids, who will eventually die at the hands of a thug badder than themselves, of by a police officer doing his job.

And they will scream, assault and even kill you because that's the only way they know to resolve conflicts and different perceptions of reality.

24 posted on 11/26/2014 6:03:20 PM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: Brother Cracker

Shouldn’t that say Dorian Johnson liar hands down?


25 posted on 11/26/2014 6:10:02 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: ChildOfThe60s
Yes, you would be correct in assuming the testimony he gave was supposed to be damaging to Officer Wilson.

What is also probably correct, is that this same Dorian Johnson reportedly communicated a heightened level of concern for his emotional health and physical safety when he found out that a young black man, DeAndre Joshua, was found shot dead and by some reports “burned” (extent unknown at this time)in his car early Tuesday AM, after the heights of the violent riots in Ferguson.

The murder of DeAndre Joshua is being studiously under reported by all major media outlets.

Probably not related to the narrative.../SARCASM

26 posted on 11/26/2014 6:11:21 PM PST by sarasmom ( Extortion 17. Obama's revenge on the DOD for the killing of Osama Bin Ladin.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

The GrandJury Transcripts were recently posted online. I don’t have a link. It is a major problem that this person testified at a Grand Jury while having a Warrant pending against him. The upside is that his testimony was so ptiful that no one could possibly believe a word he said.


27 posted on 11/26/2014 6:12:32 PM PST by DrDude (Does anyone have a set of balls anymore?)
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To: doug from upland

Not the way Dorian described it to the Grand Jury.


28 posted on 11/26/2014 6:12:34 PM PST by machogirl
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To: DrDude; All

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1370493-grand-jury-volume-4.html

Dorian’s Grand Jury testimony. His account of his arrest is nothing like being described by this witness.


29 posted on 11/26/2014 6:14:50 PM PST by machogirl
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To: DrDude

Link to grand Jury transcripts, including Dorian Johnson.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/25/us/evidence-released-in-michael-brown-case.html?_r=0


30 posted on 11/26/2014 6:15:30 PM PST by DrDude (Does anyone have a set of balls anymore?)
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To: DrDude; All

Pge 171 of Dorian’s Testimony refers to this “arrest”.
http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1370493-grand-jury-volume-4.html


31 posted on 11/26/2014 6:16:18 PM PST by machogirl
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To: FamiliarFace

32 posted on 11/26/2014 6:30:57 PM PST by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: Dogbert41
Darren Wilson should join Sandra Fluke on DNC fundraisers.

I think you mean Dorian Johnson. That poster had me confused, too.

33 posted on 11/26/2014 6:34:30 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: machogirl

I read his testimony yesterday. I think the legal term of his account of his arrest to the grand jury is he lied his arse off.


34 posted on 11/26/2014 6:40:36 PM PST by hirn_man
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To: hirn_man

that pretty much sums it up


35 posted on 11/26/2014 6:54:54 PM PST by machogirl
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To: dowcaet

Dorian “dead man walking” Johnson


36 posted on 11/26/2014 6:55:04 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: gopno1
Freeman Bosley, Jr., currently has his law license suspended indefinitely for using client trust money to pay personal expenses.

I guess that explains the immediate eviction letter I served on Bosley's N. 10th Street office in Dec. 2012.

37 posted on 11/26/2014 7:07:54 PM PST by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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To: sarasmom
re: extent unknown... Here is more from


38 posted on 11/26/2014 7:11:59 PM PST by wtd
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To: publius911
I'm no lawyer, but is a second grader's grasp of total non-sequiturs and irrelevancies normal to expect from a presumably licensed attorney?

You're obviously not a lawyer!

39 posted on 11/27/2014 5:19:11 AM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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