Maximum Pressure
How to navigate the law as a man
What’s up man.
Welcome back to The Dream Lounge.
Before September 16th 2025 when my mother was stabbed to death, I had very little interaction with law enforcement and the judicial system my entire life.
A few lawsuits I filed here and there with my attorney for business disputes and family law issues. With cops, I’ve never been detained, arrested, or charged with a crime. Ever. Anywhere.
My greatest offense at 37 years old has been rolling a stop sign.
I’ve always treated cops with respect and professional manners, expecting the same in return. For the most part that’s always been the case in my experience.
That was until my mom’s funeral on September 27th 2025.
Since then I’ve spoken to a flurry of cops, lawyers, prosecutors, court clerks, legal advocates, domestic violence advocates, detectives, special agents, and one judge so far.
I filed my first lawsuit pro se (representing myself), and assisted law enforcement in obtaining a probable cause warrant for the arrest of my own sister in civil court on December 3rd 2025.
Since September it’s been like drinking from a firehose learning about the law, how courts operate, and law enforcement. The rules, procedures, details, ins and outs.
That crash course has been truly eye opening for me dealing with so many different law enforcement agencies, state attorney offices, law firms, etc.
Even with some major successes so far, it’s been a grim reality seeing how the sausage is made under law, so to speak.
In the three months since my mother’s brutal death I’ve also had time to process just how much the local government of South West Florida failed my family over the past 40 years.
This image is not even accurate anymore, and it was just made a few weeks ago.
New charges filed, new arrests, new mugshots, multiple charges upgraded.
For over 40 years my family of origin broke the law, usually in violent ways. No matter how many times someone threw a punch or picked up a knife or whatever, not a single person went to actual prison no matter how times they were arrested.
In one instance one of my siblings in 2012 actually confessed to a violent crime, to police, after being read their Miranda rights. The crime was also captured on video at a grocery store.
The state prosecutors still dropped the case.
The average American like me follows the law because they don’t want to go to prison.
The average criminal breaks the law because they know they won’t go to prison anyway.
If there are no consequences to breaking the law, why follow it? It’s a perverse system that facilitates ever escalating degrees of criminal violence because the criminal integrates the principle that violent choices do not in fact have negative consequences.
The deputies where I live call these people “frequent flyers” because they get arrested and let out so often. They can be 20-30 arrests deep, still no prison time. Just an occasional slap on the wrist or a week in jail because they couldn’t bond out.
In my family’s case, basically, SWFL law enforcement and state attorney’s failed to take significant action for over four decades in a row until the violence escalated to 1st degree murder by matricide.
It’s astounding when the big picture snaps together. They did jack shit until grandma got stabbed to death by her own youngest child.
“Better late than never” usually has an expiration date of a few months or years, not half a century.
As for successfully navigating the legal system as a man, what I can recommend to all is exercising maximum pressure and maximum aggression under the laws and options available to you.
You keep it professional and polite. Tap every resource you can find. Push every legal button available, as hard as possible.
No one cares about you as a man. Your pain, your suffering, the abuse you’ve suffered. None of it. At best a high paid attorney will care for a price, and if you’re lucky, a reasonable judge. Maybe a legal advocate or a cop, if you can find one to listen.
The good news is for those with the patience to look, there are many different options you can pursue to seek justice. As a man you have to fight an uphill battle and use every tool at your disposal.
Here’s a short list of things I’ve done since my mom died to seek justice for her and my own family:
Incident Report with FMPD
Incident Report with CCPD
Internal Affairs Complaint with LCSO
Professional Affairs Complaint with CCPD
Judicial Qualifications Commission Complaint against Judge Elisabeth Adams
Wrote and sent a 21 page cease and desist notice
Police Report with HCSO (result in warrant for arrest)
Filed a 41 page civil lawsuit pro se for domestic violence restraining order
Attended civil court hearing for DV protection order
Filed complaint with the DOJ against CCPD officer
Filed complaint with the DOJ against LCSO deputy
Forwarded DOJ complaints to local state prosecutors office
Hired two attorneys to work my mom’s estate
Hired third attorney for separate civil law issue
Had a 3 hour meeting with a domestic violence legal advocate
Had over 15 consultations with private attorneys state wide for multiple issues
Spent hours upon hours researching state and federal law
Filed a bar complaint against an attorney
Filed a complaint with the Florida state funeral board
Filed over a dozen public records requests with law enforcement
Obtained 3 body cam videos (screenshot of one at the opening of this post)
This list is not even complete, and continues to grow.
Basically since my mom’s death, and the subsequent funeral, I’ve been wrapping my head around a huge hurricane of bullshit, and slowly cleaning up the mess brick by brick.
I’ve learned a lot and it has been a serious pain in the ass.
I believe I’ve been discriminated against too along the way. Sexist discrimination against men might be illegal but it is also alive and well. Particularly when you are pursuing justice against a woman, or the government itself.
Women benefit from a variety of mechanisms in any criminal legal process that result in sentencing disparity. Check out this 2023 report from the United States Sentencing Commission for a deep dive.
This key finding from the report is particularly telling
When examining all sentences imposed, females received sentences 29.2 percent shorter than males. Females of all races were 39.6 percent more likely to receive a probation sentence than males. When examining only sentences of incarceration, females received lengths of incarceration 11.3 percent shorter than males.
“Equal justice for all” stops right where your one eye trouser snake begins buddy.
The body cams with the sheriff are pretty bad. I am pursuing criminal charges against the officer and civil damages separately. This is very difficult to do against law enforcement no matter the circumstances.
Eventually I will publish the body cam footage in full here on TDL just not yet.
It’s really nasty what happened at a sacred event. What should have been quiet and peaceful turned into a trailer trash fiasco right out of reality TV.
Everyone is pointing fingers too of course. Only the funeral director has finally offered a formal written apology.
Everyone else is running for the hills.
No one can run from the truth forever.
Judgement comes for us all.
/s/ Anthony Dream Johnson