Feds Bust Black Lives Matter Organizer for Blackmailing Local Businesses Feds Bust Black Lives Matter Organizer for Blackmailing Local Businesses Federal prosecutors brought extortion charges Friday against the man whose arrest this week sparked violence and destruction in the capital city. U.S. Attorney Scott Blader filed the charges against Devonere Johnson, alleging he threatened to bash windows of downtown businesses unless employees gave him money.  Blader also alleges Johnson, 28, threatened to "shut down and destroy" another business unless Johnson and his friends were provided free food and drinks.  In one restaurant, Johnson allegedly brought a boombox indoors and refused to turn it down. When the owner told Johnson he donated money to a group supporting the Black Lives Matter campaign, Johnson asked what he had done "locally." https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/06/feds-bust-black-lives-matter-organizer-give-me-daniel-greenfield/