Is This Proof?
By: Tommy “Tj” Sotomayor

A video has surfaced of a man who was murdered after testifying against Amber Guyger of Joshua Brown chopping up weed that it is said he was murdered for having!

Amber Guyger witness Joshua Brown was shot dead during ‘drug deal gone wrong’ in attack unrelated to the killer cop, say police, as they arrest one man, search for two more and reveal the dead man had 12LBS of marijuana in his apartment

Police say Joshua Brown was shot dead by three Louisiana men who were allegedly trying to buy drugs off him just days after he testified during killer cop Amber Guyger’s trial. 

Thaddeous Charles Green, 22, Michael Diaz Mitchell, 32, and Jacquerious Mitchell, 20, will face capital murder charges in last Friday’s killing of the 28-year-old in Dallas, Texas.  

Police said on Tuesday that the three men had allegedly come to Dallas from Alexandria, which is 330 miles away, to buy marijuana from Brown. The drive would have taken around four hours and 30 minutes to complete.

Brown has previously served time for a drug and firearms conviction and has a history of drug charges, DailyMail.com has learned. Following his death, police said they found 12 pounds of marijuana and $4,000 cash in his apartment. 

Only one of the suspects in his death, Jacquerious, is currently in police custody. He is in hospital in a ‘critical condition’ after claiming to have been shot by Brown. The other two suspects, Green and Michael, remain on the run and are believed to be in Louisiana.   

Dallas Police Assistant Chief Avery Moore said, despite widespread speculation, the killing was not tied in any way to Brown testifying at Guyger’s murder trial. 

Since news of Brown’s murder broke, speculation has been rife about the ‘suspicious’ timing of his death. Many have suggested the Dallas Police Department may have had a hand in Brown’s murder.

His death came two days after a jury sentenced Guyger to 10 years in prison for killing her upstairs neighbor, Botham Jean, in September 2018. 

Brown’s family have since called for an outside investigation into his killing. 

Police say Joshua Brown was shot dead during a drug deal just days after he testified during Amber Guyger’s murder trial

Thaddeous Charles Green, 22, (left) Michael Diaz Mitchell, 32, (right) and Jacquerious Mitchell, 20, had allegedly come to Dallas to buy drugs from Brown. Police said Thaddeous and Michael remain on the run

‘There has been some speculation and rumors that have been shared by community leaders claiming Mr Brown’s death was related to the Amber Guyger trial,’ Moore said. ‘I assure you that is simply not true.’ 

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. were among those who had requested an independent investigation into Brown’s death, calling it ‘deeply alarming and highly suspicious’. 

At a press conference on Tuesday, police said the three suspects in Brown’s murder drove to meet him outside a Dallas apartment block last Friday night to buy drugs from him.

Green had allegedly been the one to contact Brown about the drugs but police said a physical altercation broke out between them when they met. 

Jacquerious told investigators that he got out of the car when the fight broke out but he was shot in the chest by Brown. 

He said Green retaliated and allegedly shot Brown twice in the lower body. 

Police said the three men then fled the scene in their car. Michael, who was the driver, allegedly dropped Green at an unknown location before rushing Jacquerious to hospital to be treated for his gunshot wound. 

Police said Michael then also fled. Green allegedly took Brown’s backpack and gun from the scene of the shooting. 

Investigators said they received multiple tips to search Brown’s apartment where they uncovered 12 pounds of marijuana and about $4,000 in cash. 

Witnesses reported hearing several gunshots and saw a silver sedan speeding out of the apartment complex’s parking lot shortly after the shooting. 

Police said they have since learned a silver car believed to be driven by the suspects was rented in Alexandria, Louisiana on Friday. Investigators said the vehicle was returned on Sunday. 

The Dallas Police Department have vowed to be ‘transparent’ about Brown’s case and provide updates when available.   

It comes after police were heavily criticized over their handling of the Guyger case with many claiming the investigation was corrupt. 

During the killer cop’s trial, jurors were shown footage of Guyger using her cellphone after the shooting instead of giving aid, body cameras being turned off and evidence that text messages had been deleted off her phone.   Dallas police announce three suspects in Joshua Brown homicideLoaded: 0%Progress: 0%0:00PreviousPlaySkipMuteCurrent Time0:00/Duration Time6:01FullscreenNeed Text

Dallas Police Assistant Chief Avery Moore said the killing was not tied in any way to Brown testifying at Guyger’s murder trial. Since news of Brown’s murder broke, speculation has been rife about the timing of his death. Many have suggested police had a hand in Brown’s murder

Amber Guyger (left) was found guilty last week and sentenced to 10 years in prison for the September 2018 murder of her upstairs neighbor Botham Jean (right)

EXCLUSIVE: Joshua Brown had a history of drug and firearms convictions in Texas

By Martin Gould in Centerville, Texas, for DailyMail.com

Joshua Brown served a six-month jail sentence for a drug and firearms conviction in tiny Centerville, Texas, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.

And while serving time in the Bradshaw State Jail he wrote to a judge; ‘I am praying… when I am discharged that I can put this whole series of events behind me and start off with a clean path.’

His run-in with the law in Texas started in the state capital, Austin in April 2015. Court papers reviewed by DailyMail.com show that he was in the passenger seat of a parked Lexus. Both he and the driver were passed out.

The car was in the lot of an America’s Best Value Inn which arresting cop Eric Copeland described as ‘a hotspot for criminal activity, including drugs, prostitution, stolen vehicles and fugitives.’

‘I walked up to the vehicle and it appeared that both subjects were either asleep or unconscious,’ Copeland wrote. ‘Also, I immediately detected the strong and distinct odor of marijuana emitting from that vehicle.

When the car was searched, cops found cocaine, marijuana and the anti-anxiety drug alprazolam.

Brown pleaded the case down from drug possession to attempted possession and his sentence was deferred for 18 months, court documents show. But he failed to pay his fines or turn up to meetings with his supervisor so a warrant was issued for his arrest.

He was again found in a car, this time a Ford Mustang, parked in a fire lane outside an Exxon gas station in Centerville, midway between Dallas and Houston I September 2016.

Leon County Sheriff’s Deputy Jerry Nichols said he went up to the car and ‘could smell the odor of marijuana coming from or about his person.’

Nichols found a small baggie of cocaine on top of Brown’s wallet, which Brown said he had ‘found.’

He also had an unlicensed Ruger .357 Magnum pistol in the car. The case was dealt with as a felony and Brown was sentenced to 180 days in jail on October 21, 2016.

It was while he was in jail for that offense that he wrote two letters to the judge in Austin pledging to go clean and asking if his sentence there could run concurrently with the time he was already spending behind bars.

Records also show that Brown was charged with marijuana possession and resisting arrest on Halloween 2017 in Denton County, north of Dallas.

Brown’s family issued a statement via their attorney Lee Merritt calling for the Dallas Police Department to turn over the investigation to an alternate agency.

‘This family and their representatives have consciously avoided speculating about law enforcement involvement in this tragedy, however, due to the proximity of this murder with the trial of Amber Guyger – rumors abound.

‘It will be nearly impossible to conduct a reliable investigation in a climate where the investigating agency has been implicated in the murder itself.

‘That implication naturally stems from a trial where a Dallas Police officer was convicted of murder and other DPD officers were shown to have participated in condemnable behavior in destroying evidence and interfering with the investigation.’ 

Merritt had earlier said Brown was due to be one of the first witnesses to testify in an upcoming wrongful death lawsuit brought against the Dallas Police Department by Jean’s family. 

Jean’s family is suing the city after claiming that police failed to properly train Guyger before she shot him dead in his own apartment.

Merritt said he was reluctant to testify during Guyger’s high-profile trial and had repeatedly expressed concerns for his safety. 

Brown had narrowly escaped death in November last year following a shooting outside a Dallas nightclub. He was shot in the foot and his 25-year-old friend was killed. 

Merritt has previously said Brown feared the people behind the shooting continued to mean him harm. 

He said Brown fled Texas for California to avoid testifying at Guyger’s trial.  

Merritt said Brown was in California on the first of Guyger’s trial but that prosecutors allegedly threatened to issue a warrant for his arrest if he didn’t show up the following day. 

‘He got on a plane and came straight from the airport to the courthouse,’ Merritt said. ‘I believe he met with the judge in her chambers (on the record) and reiterated his concern about testifying.’ 

Since news of Brown’s murder broke, speculation has been rife about the timing of his death. Many have suggested the Dallas Police Department had a hand in Brown’s murder 

Brown was shot in the parking lot of the Atera apartment complex (above) in Dallas’s upscale Medical District at about 10.30pm on Friday 

STATEMENT FROM JOSHUA BROWN’S FAMILY 

Brown’s family issued a statement via their attorney Lee Merritt calling for the Dallas Police Department to turn over the investigation to an alternate agency:

‘This family and their representatives have consciously avoided speculating about law enforcement involvement in this tragedy, however, due to the proximity of this murder with the trial of Amber Guyger – rumors abound.

It will be nearly impossible to conduct a reliable investigation in a climate where the investigating agency has been implicated in the murder itself.

‘That implication naturally stems from a trial where a Dallas Police officer was convicted of murder and other DPD officers were shown to have participated in condemnable behavior in destroying evidence and interfering with the investigation.

It is important for everyone involved that this case not only be solved but the conclusions arrived to by investigators be seen as authentic and reliable. A cloud of suspicion will rest over this case until steps are take to ensure the trustworthiness of the process.

The Brown family would like to extend their heartfelt gratitude to everyone around the country that has offered them support and encouragement during their time of bereavement.

Brown took to the stand wearing a Dragon Ball Z t-shirt and shorts.  

He went on to testify that he heard two gunshots and a commotion in the hallway the night Guyger shot dead Jean. 

Brown started crying when he was asked about the victim. 

He said he had met Jean for the first time on the day he was killed when police knocked on both of their doors about a noise complaint, even though there wasn’t anything loud going on in their apartments. 

Brown said he thought it might have been because both he and Jean smoked marijuana and the smell sometimes drifted into the hallway. 

Merritt pointed out that the court has mechanisms to limit the exposure of witnesses and more should have been done to protect Brown given his concerns. 

‘(The court) took steps to cut off cameras and instruct media not to report on an undercover cop that testified in Guyger’s trial,’ Merritt said. 

‘Why weren’t the same measures taken to protect Joshua Brown? Brown’s testimony was powerful but it was also duplicative. Nothing he testified to couldn’t have been brought in by other witnesses. 

‘It wasn’t worth his life.’ 

Merritt has previously called Brown’s death an ‘assassination’.

He has also refused to rule out that police were somehow involved in the shooting that took Brown’s life. 

‘I am not saying that law enforcement played a role in the murder of Joshua Brown. I am saying that the possibility of law enforcement involvement cannot be ruled out at this point,’ he said. 

‘Anyone who is murdered days after testifying in a murder trial naturally implicates the person or persons he testified against in the murder. There are no suspects and no leads currently in the murder of Joshua Brown. That means investigators are responsible for turning over every stone. 

‘Moreover, the people responsible for investigating this case can not be the same people implicated by the proximity to the trial. In other words, Dallas PD should not be investigating this murder. The case should be turned over to an outside agency like the sheriff’s department, FBI or DOJ.’