Chris Brown Fans Threaten to Kill Jenny Johnson

It’s not the first time it’s happened, but somehow it’s still surprising: Chris Brown’s fans, “Team Breezy,” have threatened to kill someone. Jenny Johnson, a comedian, has made a habit of insulting Brown via Twitter and recently had a particularly nasty spat that resulted in him deleting his account for a few hours.

Brown, who infamously assaulted his girlfriend Rihanna in 2009, has a loyal group of fans—but Johnson is not among them. Refusing to let him live down his horrific actions, she didn’t hesitate to start the recent feud.

But more alarming than Brown’s own response to Johnson (which included threats to defecate in her eye and the suggestion that she should perform oral sex on him) was Team Breezy’s response to his account deactivation. Several fans threatened to kill and rape Johnson.

To read several of the threatening tweets, check out HuffPost Celebrity’s article. Please note that the tweets contain swear words and are not for the tender hearted. The article also has a slideshow of the original tweets between Brown and Johnson.

Though Johnson says she’s not scared by the death threats, it’s still alarming that Brown’s fans would react with such violence and hatred over a simple thing like Brown deactivating his Twitter feed. But his fans are notorious for being diehard, having sent previous death threats to Chrissy Teigen after she despairingly commented on his lip-synced Billboard Music Awards performance.

Opinions on the feud vary, as the women of “The View” demonstrated in their discussion of the verbal attacks. “I think it’s disgusting first of all,” said Elisabeth Hasslebeck. “It seems like verbal rape to me.” She went on to say that Brown should be banned from Twitter.

Sherri Shepherd wondered how much of the blame is Johnson’s, though. “I’m not saying Chris Brown was right, he was wrong,” she said, “but I also say to this grown woman, when you tweet out you’re a piece of bleep, what do you expect to get back?”

Whoopi Goldberg said the two share the blame. “I have to say, if you’re gonna mess with him, you have to expect to get your head handed to you… If you feel like that and you don’t want to fight, don’t do that.”

But Hasselbeck refused to agree with any suggestion that Brown wasn’t entirely at fault. “What he wrote should never ever have to go across any sort of Twitter feed,” she said, “it was vile, disgusting and I stand by it.”