If Johnson recanted in full or in part, maybe it’s because some inconvenient reality sank in: when you are involved in a felony where someone is killed, even your co-felon, you are culpable for the death. Now that two autopsies and Wilson’s medical report disprove his original lies, Johnson’s motive is to throw Brown under the proverbial bus, and pretend he was shocked, shocked by Brown’s sudden theft and assaults.
Excerpt from script: “Then I said, ‘Don’t do anything else unlawful, Mike. You already embarrassed us with the cigar stunt and hitting a cop. Let’s cooperate fully....’ and put my hands up. But Mike rushed the officer, despite my efforts to hold him back.”
Your script is funny, but it’s hard for Dorian to claim that when it is already admitted he hid behind a car while this went on.