One very small thing that leads me to believe there may be some truth to this, is that Johnson put the cigars back on the counter (the ones handed to him by the Gentle Giant). It is an act of someone who is not fully on board with the feral mindset, but who has some deeper sense of right and wrong (or, at least, a desire to not go to prison).
I have actually expected him to recant at some point, especially as the evidence has come in, and given the severe charges he could potentially have been exposed to. This isn’t like Skittle’s girlfriend. For one thing, she was clearly a functional idiot. But more importantly, her testimony had no real substance to it. For Johnson to lie, at this point, would amount to cold-blooded murder. That little act in the convenience store told me that he might not be up to that.
Good post. I hope so.
Johnson may not realize it, having grown up in an atmosphere of rappers doing tracks about mo money and mo ho’s, but his telling the truth to put the lie to the Sharptons of this world would really be “speaking truth to power.” He literally could change just a little bit of the world.
I hope you're right.
Looking at the grainy video, it appears that he's holding something in his right hand, even though you can't see it. Saint Swisher Sweet actually seized more of the cigars than he could hold on the second "grab," and you see him trying to gather the ones that have fallen off the floor. We can't tell if he handed some of those off to Johnson, because the camera doesn't cover it. At any rate, when he (SSS) leaves the store, he's only got one hand full.