arrested DeRay McKesson<\/a>, one of the most visible faces of the Black Lives Matter movement, during a protest over the recent fatal shootings of black men, the latest round of highly publicized and video-recorded deaths at the hands of law enforcement.<\/p>\nIn the CNN interview Sunday, Brown said of Johnson, “I think that this killer had some delusions.” He cited “rambling” statements in a journal recovered from his home and said investigators found “some lettering in blood” on a wall in the building where he was killed after apparently being wounded on his way up a stairwell. “He wrote the letters ‘RB,'” Brown said. “We’re trying to figure out what those initials mean.”<\/p>\n
Brown said Johnson, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, apparently used his military training to ambush officers who were trying to stay ahead of a spontaneous, peaceful protest march. “The officers didn’t know where shots were coming from,” Brown said. “They were in a funnel. It ended up being a fatal funnel.”<\/p>\n
During negotiations that lasted about two hours, Johnson was “playing games” with a police negotiator after insisting that he would speak only with an African-American. “He was laughing at us. He was singing. He asked how many did he get. … He wanted to kill some more.”<\/p>\n
Brown said Johnson was in a position where officers would have had to expose themselves to “grave danger” to get a shot at him. Therefore, he said, he approved a hastily conceived plan to detonate a bomb near him and would “do it again if presented with the same circumstances.”<\/p>\n
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