{"id":280792,"date":"2025-11-13T17:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/280792\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:08:14","slug":"charges-dismissed-against-liver-king-following-threats-against-joe-rogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/280792\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges dismissed against \u2018Liver King\u2019 following threats against Joe Rogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Brian Johnson \u2014 better known by his nickname \u201cLiver King\u201d \u2014 had charges against him dismissed on Thursday after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2025\/6\/25\/24455621\/the-liver-king-charged-with-making-terroristic-threat-towards-joe-rogan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he was arrested in June for making threats <\/a>against UFC color commentator and podcast guru Joe Rogan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A representative from the Travis County criminal court confirmed to MMA Fighting that the charges against Johnson were dismissed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Johnson was initially arrested after he made a series of bizarre and meandering videos on social media where he said he was challenging Rogan to a fight. He actually made the trip to Austin, Texas, where Rogan resides, while posting videos about his plans to fight the comedian and podcast host.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rogan\u2019s security team asked police to intervene due to the escalating nature of Johnson\u2019s behavior before he could potentially cause \u201cany harm to Joe Rogan or his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Police stated in the criminal complaint that after viewing a number of Johnson\u2019s videos, authorities believed that his behavior exhibited signs of \u201csome sort of mental health episode, indicating that Brian Johnson could be a danger to himself or others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Police eventually contacted Rogan, who told authorities he was initially made aware of Johnson\u2019s threats by his security team, and he interpreted the actions and statements \u201cas threatening,\u201d which resulted in him filing a police report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rogan told police he never had any contact with Johnson so he was unaware why the social media influencer was suddenly targeting him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Johnson was eventually arrested and hit with a misdemeanor charge for making a terroristic threat before being released on a $20,000 bond along with a restraining order stating he had to stay at least 200 feet away from Rogan and his family as well as Rogan\u2019s home and businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Originally, Johnson\u2019s attorney was scheduled to appear in court on his behalf on Thursday, but online court records eventually reflected the charges were dismissed in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Johnson \u2014 better known by his nickname \u201cLiver King\u201d \u2014 had charges against him dismissed on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-280792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}