Before the May 4 episode of super producer Dick Wolf s
FBI: Most Wanted, “Criminal Justice,” even began, we knew it was going to be yet another Black Lives Matter themed show.
The official episode description read, “When a young man accidentally shoots a cop in self-defense and goes on the run, the team members find themselves in a moral dilemma on the best way to carry out justice.”
In reality, James JJ Johnson (Gbenga Akinnagbe) kills Officer Brain Granger (Isaac Beauchamp) while spray painting the officer s car outside his home to say “MURDERER.” While Granger draws his gun to investigate, Johnson jumps at him and the two get into a struggle. Johnson grabs the gun and shoots the cop dead. “I thought he was gonna kill me,” he says before he runs off while the cop dies in his wife’s arms. All this occurs just in the opening.