WINTER HAVEN, FL – Police have arrested five people in connection to the vigilante beating death of a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman.
Sometime in January, the body of Robert Bank was found in some woods in Sumter County. It would later be revealed that the man had been brutally beaten to death before being burned.
After an extensive investigation into the man’s death, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced the arrest of three brothers, their father and a friend in connection with Bank’s murder. Anthony, Nathan and Brian Johnson, have been charged with first-degree murder, along with their friend, Michael Gunn. Brian Johnson Sr. is being charged with helping his sons dispose of Banks’ body.
According to reports, a the men invited Banks to hang out after a female friend told them that Banks had raped her. Once there, the men handed out some vicious justice based on the woman’s claims.
“They proceeded to beat Robert viciously,” Judd said. “They kicked him, strangled him with an electrical cord. They beat him with a pipe. They beat them with their fists. They beat him with sticks. After they beat him to death, they wrapped him up and called their father and said, ‘We’ve killed this guy.'”
The woman who accused Banks of raping her later told a friend that the men also shoved a flashlight up his ass during the assault. Afterwards, these dumbasses proudly showed people pictures of Banks’ dead body that they had taken with their cell phones.
“I think, in their mind, somehow they justified this. In our mind, it’s not justified. In the law, the reading of the law, it’s not justified,” said Judd. “They tried to do in 2016 the way you would have done it in 1816 in the Old West when there was no law around.”
I couldn’t agree more. In some cases I condone it – like the man who caught someone molesting his daughter and proceeded to beat him to death. But in this case, the extreme White Knighting of these men may have been for nothing at all.
“We are not convinced beyond the conclusion of an investigation, that there was ever a sexual battery to begin with,” Judd said.
But even if it had, beating the man to death over a claim is ridiculous. I mean, come on. Check out the accused’s criminal history at such a young age:
Brian Johnson Sr, 47:
- APRIL 1991 – ARRESTED BY ORANGE COUNTY S.O. – VEHICLE THEFT
- MARCH 1992 – ARRESTED BY PCSO – AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON
- OCTOBER 1992 – ARRESTED BY LPD – BURGLARY, RESISTING ARREST
- AUGUST 1993 – ARRESTED BY PCSO – VIOLATION OF PROBATION (BURGLARY)
- OCTOBER 1994 – ARRESTED BY PCSO – BATTERY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- NOVEMBER 1996 – ARRESTED BY PCSO – BURGLARY, AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, BATTERY
- SEPTEMBER 1997 – ARRESTED BY LPD – AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON
- APRIL 1999 – ARRESTED BY PCSO – VOP (AGGRAVATED ASSAULT), DWLSR
- FEBRUARY 2009 – OUT OF STATE FUGITIVE ARREST
- APRIL 2014 – ARRESTED BY PCSO – AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, BATTERY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, AGGRAVATED BATTERY
Brian Johnson Jr., 25:
- JULY 2014 – ARRESTED BY PCSO – DISORDERLY CONDUCT
- SEPTEMBER 2015 – ARRESTED BY PCSO – CONTEMPT OF COURT/VIOLATION OF INJUNCTION FOR PROTECTION
- OCTOBER 2015 – ARRESTED BY PCSO – CONTEMPT OF COURT/VIOLATION OF INJUNCTION FOR PROTECTION
- OCTOBER 2015 – ARRESTED BY PCSO – CONTEMPT OF COURT/VIOLATION OF INJUNCTION FOR PROTECTION
- JANUARY 2016 – ARRESTED BY PCSO – CARRYING CONCEALED WEAPON
Anthony Johnson, 19:
- AUGUST 2008 – ARRESTED BY PCSO – CRIMINAL MISCHIEF, TRESPASSING
- FEBRUARY 2009 – ARRESTED BY PCSO – FIRING/SHOOTING MISSILE/OBJECT INTO VEHICLE/BUILDING
- JUNE 2015 – ARRESTED BY PCSO – POSSESSION MARIJUANA & PARAPHERNALIA
- OCTOBER 2015 – ARRESTED BY PCSO – FAILURE TO APPEAR
Micheal Gunn, 25:
- DECEMBER 2015 – ARRESTED BY PCSO – BATTERY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
The world is overpopulated with stupid, ignorant people like this and I, for one, would rather not have them out there playing judge, jury and executioner.
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