Article: All Charges Were Dropped Against Dijon Johnson

Wow that’s amazing great news!

 

Even though it appears that he was stopped for DWB, I hope he really does refocus his attention to “academics and football commitments” and keeps away from opportunities and influences that can lead to worse outcomes for him.

 

Excellent! With Gates and Turner back the secondary is looking good.

 

Dumb statement of the day.

 

Not Turner, Billy said in yesterday's presser he is out of football.

 

I don't know all the specifics about how these charges got dropped, but I honestly hope he didn't get preferential treatment because he is a D1 athlete. There need to be consequences for bad behavior and law breaking and the concept of "justice for thee, but not for me" has become too much of the norm of late. For the Gator football team, this is great news, but I hope he got the same outcome as just a normal Joe would have gotten under the same circumstances.

 

Arresting officer’s written report says the car stopped beyond the stop bar, but says it stopped. Hell, cops do the rolling stop as much as the rest of us. And we all roll past the stop bar when one is present if the clear sight triangle isn’t clear. That sounds like classic driving while black to me. Without the dubious reason for the lights and siren there is no interaction or charges. And I really hope, as others have said, that this is a wake up call for Johnson. What’s dumb about either part of the post…just wondering?

 

We get a ticket from a camera here if you dont stop before the line. Sure, we all do it til we know a camera is there, $175. Its stupid but its still a law. Playing that victem crap if you did go past the line is bs. Many times like yesterday, the bike path was there and a kid had to go behind me because i stopped at the sign instead of the line.

 

Excellent news.

 

I get it, but daaaang. If every stop sign/bar has a camera where you live then that municipality must be rolling in the dough. I understand how stop bars and crosswalks are supposed to work; I have designed hundreds, probably thousands, as a site civil engineer. I also know how often the theory doesn’t work vs human nature and driving habits; and Johnson’s instance is the first I have heard of a traffic stop for it here in the free state of Florida. Doesn’t mean it isn’t a regular occurrence, just that I haven’t heard of it and I watch LEOs make rolling stops and cross stop bars regularly (I notice such things as a designer of traffic control signage and markings). I strongly suspect that something besides the stop bar issue led to the stop by Po Po. Of course, they were fully authorized to make the stop. I just suspect that this is a case where the LEO’s discretion to stop or not was influenced by the amount of tint… and not meaning on the windows. Unfortunately, kids like Johnson have to behave better than most folks if they don’t want to draw attention to themselves. It’s also unfortunate that often their behavior as young self-entitled athletes is diametrically opposed to that seeming necessity. I wish that their coaches could be more successful in getting them to understand this. And I bet that their mom/dad/uncle/auntie/guardian had “the talk” with them years ago but it just doesn’t always register.

 

As a melanin challenged dumbass teenager, I was pulled over often for stupid things such as stopping past the bar or the infamous license plate light (which always seemed to be working fine when you got home to check it). I was routinely stopped and harassed while out and about doing dumb teen things with dumb teen friends. As I got older, stopped dressing like a hoodlum, and stopped doing so many dumbass things, my interactions with the cops pretty much stopped all together. I may get stopped for a real offense, like speeding, on occasion, but the routine harassment mostly stopped when I stopped acting like a stupid teenager. Moral to the story; when I stopped doing dumb shit, I stopped having dumb encounters with the police.

Maybe that only works for us melanin challenged folks, but I have a few well to do friends without the same complexion issues that had similar problems when they were dumbass kids, and like me, stopped having problems when they grew up and stopped dressing and acting like a dumbass. Carrying around drugs and guns while using drugs and committing traffic violations is dumb no matter what color you are, and cops tend to mess with people who look suspect and do dumb shit no matter what color you are.

 

Just asking for a friend, what is hoodlum attire?

 

I don't think there is a specific uniform. Definitely whatever dumb shit I was wearing while driving around with guns and drugs as a teenager. Me personally, I was probably wearing JNCO's, a polo shirt 3 sizes too big or a t shirt, a big gold chain, sunglasses whether the sun was out or not, and a hat with a pot leaf or two stick people forking.

You can wear and do things that draw attention to yourself. You can wear and do things that don't. It's not a really hard concept to grasp and it's not always based on your skin tone. White folks can wear and do just as much dumb shit as any other race and they get harassed for it just the same. That's not a justification, it just is what it is. When I stopped doing dumb shit, less dumb shit happened to me.

 

Thanks to independent contracting they no longer have to concern themselves with consequences for driving around with drugs and a gun in the car anyway. Used to have to wait until at least the NFL. Sounds like a great guy to have around campus.

 

Just quit being a victim. I know why extra that i may have been pulled over. The big picture is his dumbass had a gun and weed, not that he had a tint.

 

Agree he made dumbass decisions. He knows better. And if you mean that he can’t play the picked on victim card when he makes such bad decisions, I fully agree. I don’t fault him for being in possession of a firearm, though, that is his right if he is of legal age to do so; in Florida the age is different for long guns (for hunting, theoretically) vs. hand guns. But to be in possession or accompanied by someone in possession when partaking of illegal activities is dumbass x 12.