My brother Devin Johnson beat our mom towards the end of his life (felony domestic violence, arrested 01/11/2025), just like our father did for 40+ years. He may also be a stone cold killer pending the outcome of his murder trial and current charges. Horrific as these crimes are, what he was not in his free life, was a coward.
Our father Alfred Johnson routinely threatened to kill our mother growing up, in addition to our maternal grandmother, aunt, and even uncle. I heard him make these threats *hundreds* of times in the 90s and 2000s.
Later in life during the 2010s, my brother refused to move out from living with our mom and dad in Cape Coral. While I strongly disagreed with this, he often cited his refusal to abandon our mother, due to our father’s continued domestic abuse and death threats against her. These were legitimate and well founded fears he had.
As he eventually reported to me in the attached photos, our father in December of 2022 in fact picked up knife and attempted to kill our mother in the same home of her eventual death. My brother Devin intervened - as he had many times before when our father attempted to beat our mother in the 2010s, and as I once did at 17 years old myself. Ironic as it may be now, Devin was stabbed by our father while protecting our mother Rosemary from serious harm and death.
He went to a nearby ER for treatment and did not disclose what happened, which was normal for our family and the aggressive silencing campaign around these issues that I have been fighting against for years alone.
My father was soon arrested on domestic violence charges at the same home. During the arrest he threatened to kill my mother as soon as he got out, in front of the two arresting officers from CCPD, resulting in an extended restraining order that he violated several times, resulting in additional arrests during 2023 before his own death in April of that year.
This doesn’t make my brother a hero given what’s happened now, but I hope this sheds some light on the full context and complexity of the domestic violence situation.
Our father was the ultimate drug addict (alcoholic) and domestic abuser. This all stems from him. Guilty or not for the murder of my mother now, Devin put his life on the line to protect our mother from harm many times, to the point of being stabbed by our own father.
While I was beaten senseless by our father as a boy, even I wasn’t fucking stabbed growing up. That’s how bad things got once I left home for college and manosphere adventures with 21 Convention in Orlando.
I for one refused to ever see or speak with my father again, after he threw an entire knife set at me full speed December 24th 2017, Christmas Eve in Cape Coral. He was mad I demanded he stop beating a one year old puppy.
Domestic violence, knife attacks, and severe drug abuse have torn my family apart for decades.
I’ve stood alone speaking the truth, and I am devoutly hated for it, even now.
The good news is I will never, ever stop.
My brother may be a brutal murderer, but he was no coward while our father was alive.
/s/ Anthony Dream Johnson