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governor.swill@gmail.com wrote:

Lincoln fucked up when he failed to send the black animals back to Africa. Fuck that "Suspect" shit. The nigger did it.

https://youtu.be/Msb9v66P81I

As Dan O’Donnell writes, so long as we continue to tolerate the
people who kept the Waukesha Parade Massacre suspect out of
jail, we deserve to have to watch the mockery Brooks is making
of the justice system.

Oct. 5, 2022
Perspective by Dan O’Donnell

It took just seven minutes for Waukesha Parade massacre suspect
Darrell Brooks, Jr. to become so disruptive during jury
selection in his murder trial that he had to be removed from the
courtroom, but even that felt like seven minutes too long.
While he does have the right to serve as his own attorney, no
one should have to listen to him, as Judge Jennifer Dorow put
it, intentionally “make a mockery” of the proceedings.

Brooks’ incoherent grandstanding is especially infuriating
because it serves as an in-your-face reminder of the insanity
that led us to this moment, that failed to protect us from him.

In 1999, when he was just 17, Brooks was charged with
substantial battery with intent to inflict substantial bodily
harm—a Class E felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
After he pleaded guilty, though, Judge Bonnie Gordon sentenced
Brooks to three years of probation and just six months in the
House of Correction.

While still on probation, he was convicted of second offense
possession of THC and sentenced to 50 days in the House of
Correction. Almost as soon as he was released, he was convicted
of resisting an officer—a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up
to nine months in jail. Despite the THC conviction just months
earlier and the fact that he was still on probation for the
substantial battery conviction, Judge Raymond Gieringer
sentenced him to just 20 days.

Emboldened by the repeated lack of consequences for his life of
crime, the young Brooks was again charged with resisting or
obstructing an officer in 2005, this time in Manitowoc County.
After his arrest, Court Commissioner Patricia Koppa freed him on
a $300 signature bond and Brooks failed to appear for a hearing.

A bench warrant was issued, but Brooks had already taken off for
Nevada, where he was convicted in 2006 of statutory sexual
seduction after impregnating a 15-year-old girl. Remarkably, he
served just 14 months in prison and was released in 2008.

The following year, he returned to Wisconsin and was back in
Manitowoc County Court on the 2005 resisting charge. Even
though Brooks had fled the state and gotten himself convicted of
serious child sex crimes, Court Commissioner Raymond Greig
inexplicably set bail at just $100. Brooks predictably posted
and then failed to show up for another hearing. Another bench
warrant was issued. After Brooks was convicted, Judge Patrick
Willis sentenced Brooks to just two days in jail and ordered him
to pay a fine which, of course, he never did.

In 2010, Brooks was charged in Wood County with felony
strangulation and suffocation (with a previous conviction) and
misdemeanor counts of battery and criminal damage to property.
After a no contest plea, Judge Todd Wolf sentenced Brooks—who
had faced more than a decade in prison—to just three years’
probation and 90 days in jail.

The following year, Brooks was for the third time charged with
resisting or obstructing an officer in Milwaukee County and, in
a terrifying bit of foreshadowing, turned his car on and shifted
to drive while an officer had him pulled over, prompting that
officer to believe Brooks would try to run him over.

Although he was still on probation from the Wood County case and
had several prior convictions for resisting arrest and had
several times failed to appear on prior criminal charges, Court
Commissioner Cedric Cornwall freed Brooks on a $1,000 signature
bond. When he was eventually convicted after a plea deal, Judge
Nelson Phillips sentenced Brooks to just 37 days in jail.

The conviction did prompt authorities in Wood County to revoke
his probation, but Brooks was sentenced to just 11 months in
jail for strangulation (with a prior conviction).

In 2016, Brooks was charged with failing to comply with Nevada’s
sex offender registry for the past eight years. He initially
posted bail, but then failed to appear in court and, at some
point, skipped town and moved back to Wisconsin. Although state
law requires him to register as a sex offender within ten days
of his arrival, he never did.

All told, between the ages of 17 and 34, Brooks was convicted of
more than a dozen crimes—including several serious felonies such
as child sexual assault—but served less than three years behind
bars.

In July 2020, Brooks was charged with two felony counts of
second degree recklessly endangering safety through the use of a
firearm and one count of felony possession of a firearm by a
felon after he allegedly fired at his nephew and his nephew’s
friend during a party. Bail was set at $10,000 but two weeks
later, Brooks issued a demand for a speedy trial.

Because of the courtroom closures during the COVID-19 pandemic,
the Milwaukee County Circuit Court System was unable to grant
this, and Judge David Feiss lowered bail to $7,500. In February
2021, the speedy trial request was still unable to be granted,
and Feiss lowered bail again…to just $500. Brooks posted three
weeks later and walked free.

The following month, Brooks was in court in Waukesha County on a
child support case that dated back to 2004. Brooks had for
years refused to pay child support and while the Waukesha County
District Attorney’s Office asked for a contempt of court finding
and jail time, but Court Commissioner Daniel Rieck stayed a 120-
day jail sentence pending Brooks’ payment of support.

Two months later, on May 27th, 2021, Brooks was arrested in
Union City, Georgia on yet another domestic violence charge
after a man at a motel reported hearing Brooks repeatedly
striking a woman. The following day, he was released on yet
another signature bond and again fled the state and returned to
Wisconsin.

That November, just 16 days before the massacre, Brooks was
charged with running over his girlfriend’s leg during an
argument at a gas station. He faced felony counts of second
degree recklessly endangering safety and bail jumping as well as
misdemeanor charges of resisting or obstructing an officer and
domestic abuse battery and disorderly conduct. His 2020
shooting case was still open, but Assistant District Attorney
Carole Manchester recommended just a $1,000 cash bail. Court
Commissioner Cedric Cornwall agreed, and Brooks posted and was
released on November 16th, just five days before the killing
spree.

That same day, he appeared before Waukesha County Court
Commissioner David Herring for child support nonpayment.
Prosecutors demanded that Brooks be immediately jailed, but
Herring issued a stay and released Brooks on his own
recognizance, meaning he didn’t have to pay a penny to secure
his release.

Five days later, following the last in a long line of domestic
violence incidents, Brooks allegedly slammed his SUV into the
Waukesha Christmas Parade, killing six people and injuring more
than 60 others.

The crime was unspeakable, and made unforgiveable by the fact
that Darrell Brooks, Jr. should have been in custody. For more
than two decades, he committed serious crimes with little if any
serious consequences ever imposed on him.

Instead, the consequences of this leniency were imposed on all
of us. And now we’re forced to watch them play out in court;
his psychotic ramblings a daily reminder of how foolish we have
been to trust our safety to people who see it as their mission
to keep thousands of Darrell Brooks Jrs on our streets each
month.

We want to look away, to ignore his hysterics and the mockery he
is making of the justice system, but the tragic reality is that
he has been making a mockery of the justice system for years
while we ignored it.

We allowed this to happen and now, at the very least, we should
endure his painful spectacle because as long as we allow the
people who continually set Darrell Brooks, Jr. free to serve in
the justice system in any capacity whatsoever, we should feel
the consequences of our actions.

Because Darrell Brooks, Jr. never did.

https://www.maciverinstitute.com/2022/10/we-deserve-the- disgusting-spectacle-of-the-darrell-brooks-trial/

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