Dorian Johnson, who was with Michael Brown when he was shot dead by a white police officer in a 2014 shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, that fueled waves of demonstrations across the nation, was killed in a shooting Sunday, authorities said, as reported by NBC News.
Johnson had witnessed the shooting of Brown, who was Black, and told media outlets what he saw. His account of Brown’s killing helped inspire the iconic “hands up, don’t shoot” protest chant common in nationwide protests that year, although investigations since then have called into question the details of Brown’s actions before he died, according to CNN.
Johnson, 33, was fatally shot Sunday, also in Ferguson, at a block of apartments less than a mile from where Brown died.
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