The “Liver King” Brian Johnson, who was arrested after making alleged “terroristic threats” against Joe Rogan, was released from a Texas county jail after posting a $20,000 bail. Now, he’ll face a restraining order and will have to undergo a mental health evaluation within a week.
Travis County Court records, viewed by Rolling Stone, confirmed his release on June 25. The court ordered that he stay at least 200 yards from Rogan and his family, along with the mental evaluation due by next Wednesday.
Johnson seemed to address his release in a video shared on Thursday afternoon with a pair of dogs, saying he “might be leaving Austin sooner than we were hoping… I love this state of Texas.” (In one Instagram story, he said he had to “clean the jail off of me.”)
“The goal was to come on Monday to pick a fight, a loving fight… I was hoping that the jail thing and all that stuff would be the beautiful gifts that they were. They were really good,” Johnson said in a video from an empty field in the city.
He added, “Now there are other deeper threats that are happening.” Johnson then went on a tangent: “Does anybody know what it’s like to be bullied? Like, really bullied? Like for a long time? So much so that you don’t think the world won’t be a better place with you in it… That’s not what’s happening to me right now.”
The 47-year-old shared a series of Instagram videos earlier this week in which he challenged the podcaster to a fight. “I have no training in Jiu-jitsu; you’re a black belt, you should dismantle me. But I’m picking a fight with you. Your rules, I’ll come to you, whenever you’re ready,” he said in one Instagram video.\
The Austin Police Department confirmed Tuesday that it had been notified that Johnson was making threats against Rogan, and that “detectives reviewed the posts and observed that Johnson was traveling to Austin while continuing to make threatening statements.”
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“Detectives contacted Mr. Rogan, who stated he had never had any interaction with Johnson and considered the posts to be threatening,” APD told Rolling Stone. “Based on this information, detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Johnson on a charge of Terroristic Threat.”
Johnson was then taken into custody at Four Season Austin on Tuesday. He faced one Class B Misdemeanor charge of Terroristic Threat Causing Fear of Imminent SBI.\
From Rolling Stone US
