Overview

• Fitness influencer Brian Johnson posted a series of June 23 Instagram videos challenging Joe Rogan to a fight and issuing threats that prompted police action.
• Austin Police Department officers arrested him at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin on June 24 and charged him with one count of terroristic threat, a Class B misdemeanor.
• Johnson’s release conditions bar him from contacting Rogan or his family, require a mental health evaluation within a week and forbid firearm possession.
• Detectives contacted Rogan, who said he had never interacted with Johnson, considered the posts threatening and described Johnson as significantly unstable with reported substance issues.
• The arrest follows Johnson’s 2022 admission of extensive steroid use and his recent profile in the Netflix documentary Untold: The Liver King.