Suspect in Waukesha Christmas Parade incident has been identified as Darrell Brooks Jr.
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
9:25 a. m. Nov. 22, 2021
Ashley Luthern Daniel Bice Molly Beck
The full scope of tragedy in Waukesha continued to unfold Monday morning, as authorities confirmed five people had been killed and more than 40 others injured after a driver sped through the annual holiday parade Sunday evening.
A 39-year-old Milwaukee man with an open court case related to domestic violence has been taken into custody, according to a law enforcement source with firsthand knowledge of the situation. The Associated Press also confirmed the man's identity Monday morning.
Darrell Brooks Jr., the man suspected of being the driver, has been charged three times in less than two years with recklessly endangering the safety of others, most recently on Nov. 5 as part of a domestic abuse incident for which he was also charged with resisting or obstructing an officer.
Brooks was released from jail on Friday after posting bond in the recent incident, according to court records. He also was charged in July 2020 with two felony counts of second-degree recklessly endangering the safety of others using a dangerous weapon. Both cases are ongoing.
Authorities have have not publicly disclosed what they believe was the man's motivation. One law enforcement source told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel the man had been involved in an earlier incident on Sunday, possibly also related to domestic abuse, just before the parade carnage occurred.
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whow. to say this man is troubled is to say the least.
Aristus
(66,530 posts)He's just trouble, period.
DenaliDemocrat
(1,478 posts)Fuck people like this. Im all for rehabilitation, but there are those beyond redemption
grumpyduck
(6,297 posts)What the fucking hell??????????????
FBaggins
(26,797 posts)Meaning... he was out on bail at the time of the incident. Not that he was released after driving through a crowd.
grumpyduck
(6,297 posts)I'm not following that story. Too crazy for me. Therefore I'll stop posting about it.
onecaliberal
(33,014 posts)aeromanKC
(3,332 posts)Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)People were out walking in the street, he figured it was a protest and felt threatened, so he took steps to defend himself.
The people in the parade are not "victims". They are allowed to be called "revelers" or "jaywalkers".
jimfields33
(16,168 posts)Of course we have some making excuses for this guy already.
KS Toronado
(17,481 posts)There were very fine people in the SUV & on the street. With his anger problem, he's bound to be a trumper
and IQ4.5 will have to defend him.
geardaddy
(24,936 posts)The orange one won't be defending him.
totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)This person, if he proves to be the perpetrator of this tragedy, looks more like a symptom of our mental health system. And our deficiencies in mental health care predate Trumpism.
KS Toronado
(17,481 posts)Sure a lot of other people thought the same thing with RWNJs doing most of the violence in this country.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Long article, but excellent discussion of the roots of the ongoin mental health crisis in this country. Goes back to the 1960's.
https://www.salon.com/2013/09/29/ronald_reagans_shameful_legacy_violence_the_homeless_mental_illness/
Ronald Reagan's shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness
As president and governor of California, the GOP icon led the worst policies on mental illness in generations
President Reagan never understood mental illness. Like Richard Nixon, he was a product of the Southern California culture that associated psychiatry with Communism. Two months after taking office, Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, a young man with untreated schizophrenia. Two years later, Reagan called Dr. Roger Peele, then director of St. Elizabeths Hospital, where Hinckley was being treated, and tried to arrange to meet with Hinckley, so that Reagan could forgive him. Peele tactfully told the president that this was not a good idea. Reagan was also exposed to the consequences of untreated mental illness through the two sons of Roy Miller, his personal tax advisor. Both sons developed schizophrenia; one committed suicide in 1981, and the other killed his mother in 1983. Despite such personal exposure, Reagan never exhibited any interest in the need for research or better treatment for serious mental illness.
[snip]
In the 1980s, this all changed. Deinstitutionalization became, for the first time, a topic of national concern. The beginning of the discussion was heralded by a 1981 editorial in the New York Times that labeled deinstitutionalization a cruel embarrassment, a reform gone terribly wrong. Three years later, the paper added: The policy that led to the release of most of the nations mentally ill patients from the hospital to the community is now widely regarded as a major failure. During the following decade, there were increasing concerns publicly expressed about mentally ill individuals in nursing homes, board-and-care homes, and jails and prisons. There were also periodic headlines announcing additional high-profile homicides committed by individuals who were clearly psychotic. But the one issue that took center stage in the 1980s, and directed public attention to deinstitutionalization, was the problem of mentally ill homeless persons.
[snip]
The problems of mentally ill individuals in nursing homes and board-and-care homes rarely elicited media attention in the 1980s. By contrast, the problem of homeless persons, including the mentally ill homeless, became a major story. In Washington, Mitch Snyder and the National Coalition for the Homeless burst onto the national scene by staging hunger strikes and sleep-ins on sidewalk grates. Their message was that homeless persons are just like you and me and all they need is a house and a job. Snyder challenged President Reagan, accusing him of being the main cause of homelessness, and the media extensively covered the controversy. By the time Snyder committed suicide in 1990, homelessness had become a major topic of national discussion.
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)The attacker is a symptom of the nations failed mental health system?
totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)Polybius
(15,540 posts)n/t
momta
(4,079 posts)But I guess it depends on the guy's skin color. White? Definitely self defense. Especially if any of the victims were registered Democrats.
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Possibly aggravated by racist beliefs of the suspect supported by his social media footprint.
The people in the parade are most certainly victims.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)You never know.
He could have had a traumatic past experience with a parade, and felt a need to defend himself against one.
His parents abandoned him at Disney World as a child. One minute, a parade is coming down Main Street USA and then, boom, he's all alone to face the world.
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)I'm thinking he felt so enraged by this parade while making a conscious decision to drive into the oldest group of white people in the parade. So no, I don't agree with your view of him doing this in self defense of a parade threat. Do you have evidence of parental abandonment in his history to support your speculation? Plenty of evidence available to support what I'm speculating.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)It was the second time, too. The first time, they left him at the Grand Canyon and he had to learn to fend for himself in the Arizona desert.
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Mary Lemanski, social media manager for the Democratic Party of DuPage County, was let go from her position Monday morning after posting a series of tweets comparing Kyle Rittenhouse to the driver of the SUV that sped through barricades and struck dancers, musicians and others during a Waukesha, Wisconsin, Christmas parade.
It was probably just self-defense #Wisconsin #KyleRittenhouse, Lemanski tweeted about the tragedy that left five dead and 40 injured.
She followed up the statement, replying to a comment deriding her opinion and saying, Im sad. Im sad anytime anyone dies. I just believe in Karma and this came around quick on the citizens of Wisconsin.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-dupage-county-democrat-mary-lemanski-twitter-waukesha-20211122-4msgxxirpnb27blxuycxzxyfny-story.html
Self-defense angle doesn't seem like a winning one to me for this case.
catsudon
(857 posts)to bad rubbish
DFW
(54,523 posts)Theyll remind you that youre not supposed to do it, but youll never have to fear serious jail time
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Sounds like a super angry asshole, who can't resist lashing out. Probably a drunk too. He may not survive to get to trial. The guys in jail have families too, and abusing women and children makes him the lowest of the low.in that society. God only knows what kind of family he grew up in.
Just all so tragically dreadful and stupid.
Texin
(2,600 posts)From his "jacket" it sounds like he is a persistent public menace and displays a full range of antisocial behaviors.
Lucky Luciano
(11,268 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)of those innocents may he rot in jail at the least. I am sick of the hate, pain, the misery we bring on each other. The...
johnthewoodworker
(694 posts)RevBrotherThomas
(839 posts)totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)as a POC, if this man is the perpetrator, he will not get the same type of deep pocketed defense that Rittenhouse got. He will probably just get a public defender.
Polybius
(15,540 posts)He drove into a parade of completely innocent and helpless people. There will be no self-defense plea.
58Sunliner
(4,432 posts)totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)representation. And as a POC he is less likely to.
Skittles
(153,318 posts)being a notorious fascist racist double-murderer has its perks
Polybius
(15,540 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,525 posts)Someone drove thru a group of protesters. Not many details yet.
SunImp
(2,228 posts)Stuart G
(38,458 posts)LymphocyteLover
(5,666 posts)the usual suspects are on twitter pushing that it was an attack
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Ill repeat again. He weaves his red SUV around a blocking Shriner parade car. Then lines up on a crowd of parading elderly women and an all-girl dance group. He then punched the accelerator and drove through that group before making his escape to back his vehicle in and await police.
His actions communicate deliberate calculated intent to me. Driven home more so with the substance and content of his social media footprint plus robust violent criminal history.
LymphocyteLover
(5,666 posts)when he didn't have a clear lane any more-- he passed up many opportunities to hit people before the end.
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Then returned home to await arrest. No police in pursuit of him at the time he chose to drive into the dancing grannies and children.
Repeat, his social media history is filled with hate-rhetoric. His hip-hop lyrical content is filled with hate-rhetoric. His criminal history of violence includes running his ex down with a car. Several weeks before this event.
Yeah, a bad dude.
LymphocyteLover
(5,666 posts)but one thing is I thought he ran into the marching band first...
58Sunliner
(4,432 posts)We don't know.
Skittles
(153,318 posts)it does not appear to be a hate crime
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Read some Mathboi Fly lyrics if you want a real treat. His hip-hop alter ego.
58Sunliner
(4,432 posts)He did run over his ex as well, so maybe he is an equal opportunity psycho.
58Sunliner
(4,432 posts)doesn't mean it wasn't a motivation. He did run over his ex. If this was a white man mowing down a group of black people, it would be looked at that way.
LymphocyteLover
(5,666 posts)and I get the impression he was fleeing and only hit people at the end when he didn't have a clear lane
pasha the cat
(3 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,674 posts)that had just occurred. This seems to make the "accident" a possibility. A convicted felon fleeing a crime only to be stuck in a Christmas Parade?
LymphocyteLover
(5,666 posts)jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)Calista241
(5,586 posts)He's been a bail reformer since he was elected in 2007, and believes that high bail criminalizes poverty.
He's talked about how his bail policies may let out someone who goes on to commit murder, but I wonder how letting out someone who became a mass murderer on low bond will affect his bond policies. If he can retain his job after the next election of course.
tenderfoot
(8,443 posts)past, present and future.