A short while after Johnston and his daughters arrived, a man, along with his family reportedly, approached Johnston about his T-shirt.
The man reportedly told Johnston that, between his open carry and his T-shirt, a nearby woman was “fuming.”
“I thanked him for letting me know, and continued playing with my kids,” Johnson said, and he noted that shortly after, another family approached him.
This time, the second family wanted to read Johnston’s shirt, which was apparently creating waves in the park by this point.
The man from the second family reportedly told Johnston that the woman was contacting law enforcement over his shirt, adding that he personally “felt more secure knowing there was someone [in the park] that would protect them.”
Blue Lives Matter reported that Benbrook Police Department Cpl. J. Reese said the woman did indeed call police on Johnston, and described him as a “suspicious person” who had a “gun holstered to his chest” and wearing the offensive T-shirt.
When Reese arrived at the park, he spoke with the woman, who said that Johnston was “was making other parents on the playground very uncomfortable with his T-shirt.”
“She was not scared of the gun,” Reese added. “[She] was concerned about his T-shirt.”
Woman calls cops on man playing with his kids at park because she was afraid of his pro-gun shirt