LaVena Lynn Johnson

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The photo above is of LaVena pics that was taken when she was found dead:

THIS IS VERY VERY VERY GRAPHIC!! IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO BLOODY GORE, DO NOT VIEW THE PICS!!

Doesn't ring a bell?

Not surprised.

Most black women police brutality cases aren't known.

So, allow me to have the great horror and despair to introduce you to LaVena Lynn Johnson.

LaVena Lynn Johnson (July 27, 1985 – July 19, 2005) was an E3 in the United States Army. She was found dead in her tent. Her death was controversially ruled as a suicide, contrary to the evidence of rape and battery leading many to believe the United States Department of Defense covered it up.

Now, anyone with a first grade level education and common sense knows that if someone that was found dead has evidence of rape and very visible bruising on their body of being brutally beaten, then they obviously didn't freaking kill their self.

Oh yeah! Did I mention that the group of white men that gang raped her poured acid on her vagina so the FBI couldn't detect their semen in her??!?

What the heck is wrong with this world?!?

For the people that don't believe they were white men, LaVena was the only black person in an Army full of white men. The only people who could've done it was those white men.

It's very obvious that the U.S. Department of Defense covered her murder scene up, the same way they did Sandra's, and Breonna's.

Even looking at the pictures, it's obvious that she was beaten up. Her face is all bloody and swollen.

Her dad has been searching for real answers for ten long years.

The following statements is from www.news.stlpublicradio.org :

"Ten years after Army Private LaVena Lynn Johnson died in Iraq, her father keeps family photographs of her tucked away in his basement office in his Florissant home, so that his wife doesn't see them.

"The Army says the 19-year-old soldier killed herself in Iraq -- a finding that her family has never believed.

"For ten years, Johnson has been on a mission to find his own answers to what happened to his pretty daughter who played the violin and wanted to be a movie producer. The honor student who took after him.

"Johnson recalls vividly the moment everything changed -- when the doorbell rang too early on a summer morning.

"Linda got up and looked out the window and she said, 'John there's a soldier standing on the porch.' I knew then ... it was not good news. Something has happened to LaVena.'

"He recalls the soldier's voice ... LaVena was dead ... self-inflicted wounds. His wife was screaming.

"She was up on that balcony and it was, oh God, it was horrible,' '' Johnson says. 'I'm sitting there on the steps and I'm listening to the chaos that's in my house, and I'm watching this guy and he's standing there like he's a statue.'

"The Johnsons could not believe what they were hearing. They had just talked to LaVena two days before. She was telling them about her plans. She was about to start a new job on the Army base, and her outfit -- the 129th Corps Support Battalion -- would be rotating back to the States in a few months. She would be home in time to help her father decorate the Christmas tree, a tradition she and her younger sister enjoyed every year.

"'She was looking forward to her future. Looking forward to coming home and looking forward to having another job,'Johnson says."

Okay guys. By the way LaVena talked about how she was planning to come home and her future, there's now way she just decided to kill herself OUT OF NOWHERE!

This all just didn't make since and her father knew it.
And something even more strange happened...

There's a petition that you could sign to re-open LaVena's case but when I tried to sign it...

It miraculously said that the petition was closed.

It miraculously said that the petition was closed

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Now, Change.org could've just chosen to close it themselves but what if they were forced to?

I don't know if this is the Army's doing but if it is, I wouldn't be surprised at all.

It's just so dang sad how her case just got swept under the rug like that. Just like Sandra Bland's case.

I'm going to do a chapter on her sooner rather than later.

I promise.

(Let's get these votes up, please. Way more people need to get educated and if I have the knowledge to do that, I'll gladly do it.)

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⏰ Last updated: Jul 11, 2020 ⏰

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