 The police chief and district attorney refused to prosecute, explicitly and publicly stating they believed that Johnson deserved this treatment.Encouraged by the approval of this whipping, the Dallas KKK whipped 68 people by the riverbed in 1922 alone.Although Johnson had been black, most of the Dallas KKK's whipping victims were white men who were accused of offenses against their wives such as adultery, wife beating, abandoning their wives, refusing to pay child support or gambling.