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Karma always catches up to you.

Dorian Johnson: Friend of Michael Brown who helped spark ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ chant dies after being shot in Ferguson | CNN https://share.google/0KGDbh2TuxxCWArNa

Eleven years after the officer shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked waves of protest against police brutality, the friend who was with Brown when it happened has been shot dead. Dorian Johnson, 33, was the victim of a shooting at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday at a block of apartments less than a mile from where Brown died, according to Ferguson Police spokesperson Patricia Washington. Johnson’s account of Brown’s 2014 killing helped inspire the iconic “hands up, don’t shoot” protest chant heard in demonstrations across the US that year, though subsequent investigations called into question the details of Brown’s actions before he died.

The late Mr Johnson's lies no doubt made the police in Ferguson less likely to have a presence in Black neighborhoods, thus raising the (already very high) rate of violence committed by young Black males, mainly on each other, and now he has reaped his reward. Karma indeed.

Fuelman » 09 Sep 2025, 10:05 am » wrote: ↑

09 Sep 2025, 10:05 am

Karma always catches up to you.

Dorian Johnson: Friend of Michael Brown who helped spark ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ chant dies after being shot in Ferguson | CNN https://share.google/0KGDbh2TuxxCWArNa

Eleven years after the officer shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked waves of protest against police brutality, the friend who was with Brown when it happened has been shot dead. Dorian Johnson, 33, was the victim of a shooting at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday at a block of apartments less than a mile from where Brown died, according to Ferguson Police spokesperson Patricia Washington. Johnson’s account of Brown’s 2014 killing helped inspire the iconic “hands up, don’t shoot” protest chant heard in demonstrations across the US that year, though subsequent investigations called into question the details of Brown’s actions before he died.

I don't know the answer to the ghetto violence. It's great that they usually commit the acts toward each other, within the ghettos, but it still causes a burden for the tax payers. It's been going on for decades. They blame the white man for it of course. It's always the white man. They will never blame themselves. Never.  How do you fix something when the population in question refuse to blame the real cause? 

Vegas » 10 Sep 2025, 12:04 pm » wrote: ↑

10 Sep 2025, 12:04 pm

I don't know the answer to the ghetto violence. It's great that they usually commit the acts toward each other, within the ghettos, but it still causes a burden for the tax payers. It's been going on for decades. They blame the white man for it of course. It's always the white man. They will never blame themselves. Never.  How do you fix something when the population in question refuse to blame the real cause?

One of the problems of many is being able to escape the ghetto. 11 years later and this guy is still hanging in the same neighborhood and probably goes to the same convenience store and hangs with the same people.
Seems like any hope of a better life is crushed by the time they are 10-12 years of age.

 

Fuelman » 10 Sep 2025, 1:15 pm » wrote: ↑

10 Sep 2025, 1:15 pm

One of the problems of many is being able to escape the ghetto. 11 years later and this guy is still hanging in the same neighborhood and probably goes to the same convenience store and hangs with the same people.
Seems like any hope of a better life is crushed by the time they are 10-12 years of age.

Probably. Their attitude doesn't help either.