New body cam footage shows Lovely Peaches abused dog \u201cfor followers\u201d Dekalb County Police Department via InsiderNew body cam footage from the night Instagram influencer Brittany \u2018Lovely Peaches\u2019 Johnson was confronted by police for threatening her dog shows her explaining that she abused the animal \u201cfor followers.\u201d As one of the more controversial figures on Instagram, Johnson\u2019s videos of her threatening and \u2018joking\u2019 to harm her six-month old puppy, Max, have been a point of contention with animal rights advocates and concerned viewers. Following alarms and notifications to authorities, the online personality was arrested in January on charges of animal cruelty but has since bonded out of jail. But footage from the night officers took Max has surfaced showing how Johnson, 20, answered questions from the officers. The video, acquired by Insider, gives people a view inside of the Dekalb County Police\u2019s initial appearance to Johnson\u2019s door which showed a small motel room with her and the dog. In questioning the embattled Instagram star, officers discovered that threats made to Max by Johnson was all \u201cfor followers\u201d to grow her main Instagram page that has roughly 146,000 members. \u201cI said I was going to throw him out the window,\u201d Johnson answered the police. These were the kind of things she believed would incite reactions enough that people would follow her on Instagram. She soon followed up with saying that she had no intention of going through with the things she threatened to do in her posts. When asked if she even wanted Max, she quickly replied with: \u201cI mean, I might give it to my dad.\u201d According to the officers on the scene that night, the dog was visibly \u201cscared to death.\u201d \u201cYeah, but I make jokes all the time, so if anybody makes jokes\u2013\u201d Johnson said before being cut off by the officer who told her, \u201cThat\u2019s not funny. You\u2019re talking about harming a puppy.\u201d Johnson said the threats were repeatedly made \u201ccause I knew it would get me attention on the internet.\u201d She said her ultimate goal was to build up a large enough following to one day sign with a label to take care of her family. She told officers that she makes about $1,000 per week from sponsors. The Dekalb County Police Department told TooFab that Max was taken into custody by animal services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New body cam footage shows Lovely Peaches abused dog \u201cfor followers\u201d Dekalb County Police Department via InsiderNew body cam footage from the night Instagram influencer Brittany \u2018Lovely Peaches\u2019 Johnson was confronted by police for threatening her dog shows her explaining that she abused the animal \u201cfor followers.\u201d As one of the more controversial figures on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}