Brian Johnson — higher often called his on-line persona “The Liver King” — ended up in jail and charged with making a terroristic threat towards Joe Rogan after the podcast and UFC coloration commentator’s safety crew alerted police to a collection of unhinged movies on social media.
On Monday, MMA Preventing obtained a duplicate of the prison grievance filed towards Johnson after an investigation led police to consider he was making official threats to go after Rogan, which included quite a few social media posts difficult him to a combat after which truly driving to Austin, Texas the place the 57-year-old comic resides.
Police have been initially contacted by a member of Rogan’s safety crew after he was made conscious of a number of social media posts made by Johnson. The movies escalated from “quite a few threats” to really posting movies “documenting that [he] had traveled to Austin and was at present on the town to combat Joe Rogan.”
Rogan’s safety crew requested police to intervene over the escalating nature in Johnson’s habits earlier than he might doubtlessly trigger “any hurt to Joe Rogan or his household.”
Police acknowledged within the prison grievance that after viewing plenty of Johnson’s movies, authorities believed that his habits exhibited indicators of “some type of psychological well being episode, indicating that Brian Johnson could possibly be a hazard to himself or others.”
In a single explicit video recognized by police, Johnson is seen standing shirtless sporting a “fox headdress on his head whereas holding two firearms that seemed to be gold plated AR-15 brief barrel rifles.” Within the video, Johnson — whereas holding onto the weapons — acknowledged “Joe Rogan, I’m calling you out, man to man, I’m choosing a combat with you.”
After viewing a number of extra movies from Johnson together with those who confirmed he took a three-hour journey from his residence in Willis, Texas to Austin, Texas the place he continued making threats towards Rogan.
Police finally acquired in touch with Rogan himself, who informed authorities that he was initially made conscious of Johnson’s threats by his safety crew, and he interpreted the actions and statements “as threatening,” which resulted in him submitting a police report.
Rogan informed police he by no means had any contact with Johnson so he was unaware why the social media influencer was all of the sudden focusing on him.
The veteran UFC coloration commentator then informed police that “he has been informed that Brian Johnson has a big drug problem” and primarily based on the quite a few Instagram posts made about him, he believes Johnson is “considerably unstable and looks as if he wants assist.”
Because of this, police “discovered that Brian Johnson dedicated the act of terroristic menace in the direction of Joe Rogan” and prices have been filed towards him. Johnson was arrested and later launched on $20,000 bond together with a restraining order that he should keep at the very least 200 yards away from Rogan and his household in addition to his residence and locations of enterprise.
Johnson was additionally ordered to endure a psychological well being analysis inside seven days of his launch.
Johnson’s subsequent courtroom listening to is scheduled on July 16.
