My Mom's Funeral from Hell (on video)
A day of reckoning 40 years in the making
What’s up man.
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I’ve spent most of my life in the public eye as a manosphere icon. I started building the “TED Talks of the manosphere” at 17 years old in 2006, an event attended by thousands across five countries for nearly 20 years, and watched by hundreds of millions. Every manosphere figure worth a shit spoke there or wanted to speak there. My historic campaign to “Make Women Great Again” was seen by an additional 100 million people in 2020 - mostly angry women.
Just last week my interview about “warm wet holes” with the honorable federal Judge Melissa Isaak did over 20 million views on social media. My previous interviews with Andrew Tate have done somewhere between 50-100 million views. That’s a lot of views, it’s hard to keep track. I guess you could say…
While most of you know me from this public frolicking and staunchly male chauvinistic civil rights activism, in my private life I’ve been fighting a small war to combat domestic violence for decades. While building 21 Studios and The 21 Convention I had the distinct displeasure of watching my family slowly tear themselves and each other to pieces.
This is something I’ve had to watch, technically, my entire life. I’m the second oldest of four, and the family beatings began a couple years before I was born in 1988. My dad used to say “the beatings will cease when morale improves” but they never did cease. He lied. They continued even after his death in 2023, amazingly.
Without my dad around to protect my mom from, my little brother started becoming highly abusive towards my mother. Echoing the actions and behaviors of our father. Eventually beating her, getting arrested, the charges dropped, then strangling and stabbing her to death over 100 times just a few months later.
He’s facing the death penalty now. Or life in prison at minimum. I tried to dissuade the prosecutors from pursuing execution, they didn’t listen. Notably, over 99% of executed criminals in Florida are men over the past 100 years. It’s one of the most explicit and brutal examples of sexist sentencing disparity I’ve ever seen.
There’s your male privilege folks. You will be executed and you will be happy. Unless you have a vagina of course, in which case the murder charges will be lowered to 2nd degree, you’ll get 25 years on a plea deal, with reductions for time served and good behavior. Women are wonderful don’t you remember? Have simpathy for those violent little angels.
The plain truth is my mother suffered and died from domestic violence for over 40 years. My baby brother finished what my father started. Our dad did try stabbing our mom to death in late 2022, but my brother stopped him in a now tragically ironic twist of fate.
Try as I might to save him and my mother, I failed. Calling the police, CPS/DCF, wellness checks, filing lawsuits, arrests… it all ended in a river of blood, in the house my grandmother built.
I escaped this madness using the manosphere as my mighty stallion.
The rest of my family, my cunt sisters included, did not.
Their lives are all a living hell in unique ways.
The Funeral
I’ve promised the full funeral videos for a while. What you’re about to watch is a bit disturbing. Essentially it’s 40 years of lies, madness, and bullshit coming head to head with me, big daddy Dream with coconuts the size of wrecking balls.
My family pretended to be an all American family living the American dream for along time, before the housing collapse anyway. My sisters and mother tried to keep that lie going. Even after her brutal murder by domestic violence, what appears to be the most horrific murder in the entire history of my hometown, Cape Coral Florida.
My two sisters responded to our family history of violence in the exact opposite way I did. They have aggressively evaded and denied reality to the maximum extent possible. Even though they literally had our father arrested for beating our mom (they made the 911 calls due to their immunity from beatings).
What began as a survival strategy for them morphed into a lifelong obsession with maintaining social appearances, and raging cluster B personality disorders.
My strategy was the exact opposite. A masculine response. To aggressively and relentlessly focus on reality, on the truth. To speak it boldly, loudly, and sharply enough to cut through bone. My brother was caught in the middle of all this, manipulated and twisted by our wicked sisters. Their survival strategy never worked for him because he was a direct victim of the violence unlike them. Living in denial doesn’t work when denial is pounding your head in with a closed fist.
My dad beat me so hard at 10 years old that he broke his hand. Casually bragging about it for the rest of his life.
That’s the kind of family I grew up in. And this insane trailer trash funeral fiasco was the ultimate conclusion to that tragedy.
Video #1 - The Church Incident ✝️
I’ve already published this video previously here. I had just setup the camera to film my eulogy reading and the entire religious service with help from the church staff. One of my sisters figured this out - that they authorized me to read my now infamous eulogy in the church - and flipped out.
She decided to start screaming at my wife and two year old daughter, even with church staff bitching at her to shut up. So the funeral director (center, tall guy, suit) and police escorted her out.
My sister was subsequently arrested in relation to this incident, with the Hernando County Sheriff’s office writing in their report:
Anthony was able to show me a recording from the funeral in which Renee clearly became irate and had to be escorted out of the funeral.
She spent the night in jail, a slap on the wrist but some justice at least.
Cape Coral Police for the record disputed this video with mental gymnastics. The two cops in the video, sort of, but mostly some cunt chick cop who wasn’t even there. She worked overtime to fabricate a different narrative - that they were comforting her - something I had the pleasure of bitching at her in court over (the cunt cop directly who attended via Zoom).
Remember kids, if a cop’s lips are moving, they’re probably lying. Same for lawyers.
HCSO is a good law enforcement agency. Good, decent cops who follow the law by the book do exist. CCPD and LCSO are filled with scum. South West Florida in general seems to be a hot bed for corruption. Did I mention I hate the government?
Mostly these cops were embarrassed that they had to escort a woman out of a church who had directly hired and paid them. HCSO found this very amusing, as would any reasonable person. It’s extremely unusual that off duty police hired to work an event - like I would do annually for The 21 Convention - have to take actions against their own client.
Notably she had hired them to protect her from Anthony Dream Johnson. This is deeply ironic since she has a history of domestic violence against me personally, and was arrested for such crime by CCPD years earlier.
That’s how stupid police are.
Video #2 - When Fat Pigs Attack 🐷
This is the first of 3 body cam videos from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. This is the most important one clocking in at 2 minutes.
Of note, their records office was highly reluctant to get me these videos. They had a million excuses, and then, wanted almost $1,000 to deliver them. Their excuse was they had to blur all the kid’s faces out.
Of course they never actually did that. When I had my good friend Dale at the Lackluster YouTube channel contact them for the footage, magically they coughed it up quickly at a low cost. No edits, no face blurring.
Funny how that works when the media comes knocking, instead of the victim.
I think LCSO is scared shitless of a seven figure free speech/excessive force lawsuit, and they should be.
In this video I get about 40% done reading my eulogy for my murdered mother. I did so with the express, written help and guidance of the funeral director, who advised me to do so at this exact time and place after the church fiasco.
He’s an event director not unlike myself, and he has full contractual authority over this building at the time.
Everyone was chill and quiet while I was reading, even my sisters. You can see this with the other pallbearers (my cousins) behind me.
That was until my BPD sister began screaming like a rabid monkey. In some legal contexts you could describe this as a “heckler’s veto”.
In the discourse, a heckler's veto is a situation in which a party who disagrees with a speaker's message is able to unilaterally trigger events that result in the speaker being silenced. For example, a heckler can disrupt a speech to the point that the speech is canceled.
This post “Borderline: The Euphemism for the Female Predator” from Dr. Hannah Spier, perfectly maps out weaponized borderline personality like this seen on another body cam police video.
She breaks that example down into the following categories:
0:00 – 0:15 | The Parasitic Entitlement
0:16 – 0:40 | The Dominance Frame
0:41 – 1:05 | Weaponized “Therapy-Speak”
1:06 – 1:25 | The Shift to Active Antagonism
1:26 – 1:45 | The “Nuclear Veto” (The Tactical Tantrum)
1:46 – 2:00 | The Refusal of Accountability
My mom’s funeral doesn’t follow the exact same flow, but it does track very closely to my sister’s actions this day. My sister has been a borderline cunt more or less her entire life.
Basically by screaming and yelling she is able to turn police against me, in probable violation of the federal and state constitution, who then attack me mid speech, without even identifying as law enforcement, much less asking me anything or giving me some sort of verbal direction. Not even a hand gesture.
Literally nothing, just hands on used physical force - violence - to stop my speech. Big fat 350 pound piggie. Hilariously, this giant fat cop got bitched at by (I swear) “Sergeant Jelly” for having a bunch of junk food and trash all over his cop car. Have a look at his discplincary report.
I was notified at approximately 1000 hours on May 10, 2023 the vehicle had trash in it and had a foul smell. I responded to Fleet to inspect the vehicle. I observed the driver’s floor board to be covered with sand, the passenger’s side and both back floor boards had a coating of sticky substance covering it. There were food wrappers under the front seats and an old soda fountain cup stuffed between the seat and center console. There were food particles in the cup and coin holder in the center console. The interior of the vehicle smelled foul. I contacted Sergeant Jelly who is Deputy Miller’s immediate supervisor. Sergeant Jelly reported he has discussed the importance of keeping the assigned vehicle cleaned and inspection ready with the shift, as well with Dep Miller. Captain Mallard, Sergeant Jelly and I met with Deputy Miller on May 17, 2023 at 1700 hours to review this Written Reprimand.
What this cop did was nuts.
Physically assaulting attacking and silencing an eldest son and head pallbearer, mid eulogy speech, at his mother’s funeral, who was just stabbed to death by his little brother. And I’m reading the speech at the exact time and place the funeral director told me to.
I didn’t know who was putting hands on me. Mid speech, wearing sunglasses, crying for my mother, I didn’t expect to be physically attacked. Who would?
I kept cool, didn’t draw my gun and open fire thankfully. This is why it was so dangerous for this fat pig to attack me unprovoked, without identifying as law enforcement. Had I done that - not realizing he was a cop - I’d be facing manslaughter charges right now or similar.
This use of force was objectively unreasonable for the record. Unlike CCPD in the church video - a parallel law enforcement agency operating in the same county, under similar circumstances, at an earlier segment of the same funeral - those cops went out of their way to obey use of force policies with my sister.
They used repeated hand and arm gestures, verbal commands, and a lot of patience to remove my sister from the church against her will, where she was not reading a speech but was instead screaming at a young mother and her baby, my family.
This conduct by CCPD officers was the correct and professional way to handle that situation. LCSO deputies should have done the exact same thing when my sister began screaming during my speech - which is what I expected them to do.
Oh here we go again. The cops will escort my sister outside, calm her down for 5 minutes, then let her back in.
No, instead because I’m a man, reading a speech for my murdered mother, standing 3 feet from her dead fucking body, minding my own business, I get the instant Rodney King treatment.
I have no idea what’s happening or why.
I was not accused of a crime by police (or anyone).
I was not detained.
I have never been detained by law enforcement.
My criminal record does not exist.
I did not “resist”. There was nothing to resist, no lawful orders were given before violence was used against me.
Actual physical force is the direct cause of what stopped the speech.
This use of force was unnecessary because no force at all was necessary for anything. I was engaged in free speech, not criminal activity or disorderly conduct.
Police completely failed in their professional duty to maintain public peace.
My sister was engaged in overt disorderly conduct, running around and screaming in a mausoleum at a funeral. The same building our grandparents are buried in no less.
I was injured, bleeding, and left the funeral with my family covered in blood.
It’s not the worst injury in the world. Two cuts on my right hand from when the cop shoved me out the door, nipped it on the metal.
The Bloody Audio
Critically, at the time, I had no idea why blood was dripping down my hand in my suit.
My wife and baby were covered in my blood after the incident. This is a hidden audio recording I have from just after the incident, never before released. My wife thinks she’s the one injured and bleeding.
Turn your volume up.
No, she and our daughter are covered in my blood, from police attacking me at my mother’s funeral.
Wonderful.
Video #3 - Pigs on the Prowl 🐖
This is the 2nd body cam video from the officer in charge, LCSO deputy Sergeant Johnathan Norwood.
In this video you get a second angle at the obese cop attacking me, and you see my sister screaming and yelling. First when the audio is muted, then when the audio is unmuted and she is (once again) screaming at my wife flailing around.
My wife was the only one there with the balls to speak up for and defend my honor. My cousins were completely useless cowards.
You then see police comfort and console my sister - a woman who just committed a crime, disturbing the peace, and instigated a major disruption at a funeral. Yes she is the victim, this violent criminal manic who has spent all day screaming and yelling, and most of her life getting arrested for beating or stabbing men in Florida.
Amazingly, police actually mid way through the video go outside looking for me. They are on a fishing expedition looking for trouble.
My crime was reading a prepared eulogy, for my murdered mother, at the direction of the funeral director, then obeying a lawful order by police to leave the property.
Yes I am the villain in this story, telling the truth about my father and defend the life, legacy, and suffering of my mother.
This shit is puke inducing.
Remember kids: when you’re a manipulative piece of shit, DARVO
Deny
Attack
Reverse
Victim
and Offender
Video #4 - Fake Bullshit, Faker Women
“Nothing to see here folks. Everything is fine. It’s not like my mother had the shit kicked out of her for 40 years before getting stabbed to death. My brother just totally made that up, in spite of extensive police records documenting it and me personally calling 911 to have my father arrested. My brother is just a big meanie, and my father totally wasn’t a brutally violent alcoholic I’ve been running cover for, for decades.”
This third video (the second from fat pig cop) is just a second follow up body cam. It’s the most boring and least interesting of the bunch. My fake sister says some fake bullshit.
Essentially they made our mother’s funeral all about them. What should be a time for mourning, grieving, and honor someone’s life became a big social media event. One of my sisters was actually posting smiling selfies earlier in the day.
Completely fucking oblivious to how psychopathic that looks.
Bullshit Apologies and Justice
The events of this day were grueling. What was already an emotionally catastrophic event, became 10x worse when my cunt sisters refused to behave themselves.
This directly reflects on how sick and diseased our culture is with feminism. Women generally operate above the law with impunity. Police treat them with kid gloves, where as a man like you will get a knee on your neck in the blind of an eye.
All you’re going to hear as the lights go out is STOP RESISTING even if you are perfectly still. They say this because it sounds good in court later on.
In the end it’s everyone’s fault and no one’s fault. The funeral director blamed his employees, then later on apologized in the above email, retiring from his business (he sold it) that same day.
The funeral employees pointed fingers, tried to blame me for causing a woman to scream her head off (how am I responsible for what other people decide to do?), and said a bunch of contradictory stuff to the police that doesn’t even make internal sense.
LCSO internal affairs was completely useless. I’ve concluded that IA departments mostly exist to emotionally masturbate victims of actual police misconduct, pretending to “do something”. Surprise, nothing happens.
LCSO Lieutenant James Saffold was initially very concerned about free speech violations. That was his own initial concern, without any prompting by me calling the incident in. When I asked about this later on, repeatedly, I got stone walled.
That was after their records department sat on the videos for weeks and weeks making excuses, trying to charge me outrageous amounts of money for videos they eventually coughed up almost for free to the media.
The body cam videos published here by the way are unredacted and unedited. They are missing audio at the front. This could be bad faith editing or it could be the body cam tech they use, I don’t know.
Fortunately, I got another cell phone video of big fat piggy cop attacking me, that includes all of the missing audio where he failed to identify as law enforcement or address me in any way before using violence to end my speech and shove me out of a door.
Police actions of this day - unconstitutionally censoring and silencing my eulogy in blood - did contribute to the speech eventually going viral in 2026, with over 1.6 million views.
Had they not been such cunts, and followed the law instead, it may not have been read by a million people later on. Something my mom would be happy about.
I’ve had some minimal responses from the DOJ so far about this, recently asking me for more information. The process is slow as molasses.
The Florida Attorney General’s office not been able to help much. It’s not their wheelhouse, it’s mostly up to the federal DOJ.
I am going to file a criminal complaint with FDLE - Florida’s equivalent of the FBI - and try to see if they will investigate and arrest the officer. They might be able to get simple battery charges on him, which would be nice.
At the very least, he should be fired. First for leaving his cop car a disaster of Twinkies and jelly rolls, second for abusing my 1st and 4th amendment rights at a fucking funeral.
All in all, the only justice I’ve seen since the funeral are
The eulogy speech going viral to over one million people.
Watching my sister get arrested in open court in relation to these events.
That’s not nothing. I hate domestic violence. The story of my mother and our family reaching so many people was a fundamentally good thing, and a direct result of this trailer trash disaster funeral.
And the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office did a good job, fairly and impartially reviewing the evidence presented to them, determining probable cause, and making an arrest. I was shocked to see how vastly different law enforcement agencies could be, operating in the same state, under the same set of laws.
Each LEA can have a completely different professional culture in how they conduct themselves. Even when operating nearby or right next door to each other. Even working in the same county.
Cops have a lot of power to narrative spin. When they want to protect themselves or wonderful women, the gloves come off. Spin spin spin.
Holding the government accountable is insanely difficult. Different heads of the same hydra.
If You Want to Help
You can email Lieutenant James Saffold at jsaffold@sheriffleefl.org referencing complaint CC2025-191 and the contents of this newsletter.
The funeral took place 09/27/2025 at the Fort Myers Memorial Gardens Funeral Home & Cemetery (they were just the venue, contracted out by the funeral director Shannon Mullins, they are not responsible for what happened and have been nothing but kind to me since then).
What do you see and what do you think?
You have a right to bitch at the government.
You can also bitch at his “nothing to see here” boss Major Hicks at THicks@sheriffleefl.org.
Alternatively this is the official web complaint form you can use.
I’ve gone my entire life never having a serious problem with law enforcement. Never arrested, never detained. Several friends and family in law enforcement.
But man, what a reality check this experience was. Dirty dirty piggies.
As for lawsuits, that would be nice.
Reality is much harder.
There are very few law firms in Florida who handle these types of cases. Most instances of “police brutality” are not free speech related. It’s someone getting body slammed into concrete who was not even the right suspect, etc.
This incident sits at a very narrow intersection of free speech and excessive force.
Courts are highly sensitive to: funerals, religious or ceremonial speech, emotionally vulnerable moments. The Supreme Court has repeatedly emphasized that funerals are uniquely protected spaces for expression and mourning.
The police brutality billboard law firms want nothing to do with it, and the few free speech firms don’t know what to do with it either.
The Florida First Amendment Foundation has been one of the only free speech organizations to take it seriously.
It doesn’t help that I’m a man. No one cares about men. It also doesn’t help that I’m a particularly combative and controversial public figure.
Throwing money at the problem doesn’t help much either. The law firms don’t want a simple up front check, they want a 40% cut of a huge 6 or 7 figure pay out. They want a winning case in other words, confident they can litigate it over several years. Offering them money doesn’t do much unless you have huge piles of cash to throw around.
It will take 2-3 years minimum to fight this in federal court, I’m told. Up to 4 is common. Suing government agencies - with rare exceptions - is extremely difficult. The government goes above and beyond to protect itself and shield itself from accountability.
So yes if I can sue I will. It’s a big deal and it’s not easy. Even getting a slap on the wrist is a big deal for state actors. They are the only true sovereign citizens who operate above the law with ten layers of immunity and excuses. Prosecutors are even worse entitled brats.
I could also sue the funeral director for professional negligence. I may. He’s retired but the business still operates under new owners. Even there it’s such an unusual situation. Most funeral home type law firms focus on other issues like mishandling of the body etc.
What happened at this funeral was truly bizarre and a complex, multi-layered mess of nonsense.
I did sue my sister, which is part of how she was arrested. There are still ongoing legal battles with that. Suing her for financial and emotional damages is a dead end though, she’s a judgement proof widowed single mom of two kids. Her husband overdosed on fentanyl in late 2023. I had previously sued him and her for custody of my nephews in 2022, due in part to ongoing fenanyl use in the home around two year old kids.
Even with a dead father from that exact cause, the government doesn’t care. The government is profoundly incompetent at best.
Thanks for tuning in to today’s newsletter.
/s/ Anthony Dream Johnson