Why Waukesha parade attacks are not "suitable for media narratives"

2021-12-14 10:35:56 By : Ms. Alexis Huang

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Waukesha, Wisconsin — Sharon Millard, 67, has been very shy throughout her life. She often asked identical twin sisters to date instead of her in high school.

But since on November 21, Darrell Brooks allegedly broke into dozens of people in the Waukesha Christmas Parade, killing 6 people, including an 8-year-old boy, and injuring as many as 60 people. Millard felt it was necessary to talk about it. thing. The atrocities she witnessed.

According to the police, one of the victims was Millard's companion "Dancing Granny"-79-year-old Virginia "Ginny" Sorenson-who was thrown into the air by Brooks' SUV like a rag doll.

"No one has seen him come," Millard told the Washington Post. "He walked too fast. I only know that I saw Ginny flying up in the air and landing in front of me. I saw her curled up, blood flowing from her like a river. I was standing in a pool of blood. ."

Brooks is a 39-year-old violent professional criminal, a registered sex offender, and an amateur rapper from northern Milwaukee with a criminal record dating back to 1999. He allegedly slapped his child's mother in the face at the beginning of last month and then drove Passing by her, leaving tire marks on her legs. Despite the seriousness of the crime, he was released five days before the Waukesha riot, and the liberal Milwaukee County prosecutor paid only $1,000 in cash bail.

"He could be a quiet guy," Brooks' Milwaukee neighbor Willie Bates told the Post. "But he could also be a bad guy."

Brooks traveled back and forth between his mother's house in a rough area north of Milwaukee and the houses of various girlfriends in Waukesha 20 miles away. When living with his mother, he often patronizes meeting places near Capitol Drive, such as Teutonia Liquors, JJ Fish & Chicken and the run-down Big Man's Place bar-the bosses go through locked doors and cheap bars before letting customers in. The surveillance camera is peeping out.

A screenshot of Brooks's Facebook page, under his MathBoi Fly rapper, was mysteriously deleted immediately after the murder on the march, showing that he had praised Hitler and supported the life of blacks—and called for violence against whites.

"So when we started bakk knokkin white people TF out ion and wanted to hear it...old white man ppl 2, KNOKK DEM TF OUT! PERIOD," he wrote with his rap name MathBoi Fly and a middle finger emoji road. 

The Brooks case has now become a celebrity, not in the mainstream media. The mainstream media initially said that the deadly attack was caused by a "car" driving into the parade, but it has been chorused by more and more influential podcasts such as Joe Logan and the online experts who claimed Brooks and his Waukesha victims were "swept out" by the media because it was not in line with their agenda.

The growing protest may be the reason for the announcement on Saturday that First Lady Jill Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Enhof will visit Waukesha on Wednesday. Although bordering Milwaukee County of the extreme Democratic Party, Waukesha County is the headquarters of the Republican Party.

Brooks' mother, Dawn Woods, issued a letter to the media on December 1, stating that Brooks had a mental illness and did not "get the help and resources he needed." An ex-girlfriend who had a son with Brooks 20 years ago told the Washington Post that he suffers from bipolar disorder.

According to a law enforcement source, Brooks has an unstable history and may suffer from some mental illness, but he also fits the image of a stubborn and qualified criminal. The source added that Wisconsin does not lack mental health services.

The massacre occurred after Kyle Rittenhouse shot two people and wounded another in Kenosha, just 52 miles south of Waukesha. He was found not guilty and acquitted.

Some locals told the Washington Post that they wanted to know if Brooks was affected by the outcry against Rittenhouse’s acquittal—especially considering his social media posts—maybe it was time to drive to the parade. To the point.

Brooks was apparently away from another domestic violence incident on the day of the murder, but the police said they did not pursue him. He drove the car in a "zigzag movement" to "hit and hurt as many people as possible"-this is different from the Bastille Day celebrations where terrorists drove a truck into the seaside in Nice, France, in a zigzag pattern. In July 2016, 84 people died.

"We have already had six deaths and the teenagers have been seriously injured, and they will have to learn to walk again on Christmas," state Rep. Cindi Duchow, a Waukesha resident and Republican told the Washington Post.

Duchow said: "Because this was done by a black man, the media did not want to report it. They were full of the Rittenhouse case because the kid was white. Here, race is not important to us, but the media made Everything about race." 

Although Brooks scored the highest in the risk assessment test, the Milwaukee District Attorney's Office of Milwaukee DA John Chisholm (Milwaukee DA John Chisholm) decided to release Brooks on a bail of $1,000, which made some state lawmakers in the Waukesha area angry.

Chisholm’s office issued a statement after the march attack, acknowledging that the state’s bail proposal was “too low given the nature of the recent allegations and the pending allegations against Mr. Brooks.”

The statement added: "The bail recommendation in this case is inconsistent with the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office's handling of violent crime cases, and does not comply with the defendant's risk assessment before bail."

But state senator Chris Capenga (R-Delafield) is very disgusted with low bail, and he has now begun to write a letter to Governor Tony Evers on December 6 to overthrow Chisholm.

"The leftists are very sympathetic to Kyle Rittenhouse's victims, but they didn't say a word about the victims here," Capenga said. "This does not fit their narrative. The reality is that this person [Brooks] is pure evil, and the leftist soft crime policy exploded in front of them. But they want to ignore it and hope it disappears. At the same time, in The parents of the 8-year-old boy who died in the parade had to spend their first Christmas without him."

Millard said Brooks’ skin color and the politics of the case are not important to her and shouldn’t be important to anyone. She only hoped that she could forget the nightmare she and many others experienced in the parade.

Millard said: "He drove in the middle (of the parade) with the goal of attracting as many people as possible," Millard said. She was talking all the time, even on live TV that scared her.

"They should put him in a room and let us see him. I think he should be sentenced to death. He will burn in hell."

But the residents of Waukesha also admitted that they just don't know why Brooks did this and are wary of racism.

"We all have a backstory," said Kristopher Mageske, 60, who is a frequent visitor to the Nice Ash cigar bar, Waukesha's "Cheers." "We all have reasons to mess up. If that guy [Brooks] needed help, he could have gotten it. I am more concerned about the damage he brings to this community. Not only the people he killed and hurt, but all their relatives and relatives. It will also be affected in the next few years. No matter what I say, I will look like some white supremacist, but do you know? I am married to a Mexican Indian woman, I have a black son-in-law and three black grandchildren Granddaughter. Don't tag us here just because we are conservative."

Brooks did not explain the reason for his behavior in a brief video interview in prison last month, only that he felt "dehumanized" and "demonized."

"The motivation lies in criminal proceedings," Waukesha police captain Dan Bowman told the Washington Post last week.

Bowman declined to elaborate, but the police officer described in the complaint how they yelled "Stop, stop!" Brooks repeatedly hit the hood of the car when it flew past. A police officer said that he saw Brooks "looking straight ahead... it looks like there is no emotion on his face."

Both police and witnesses said that Brooks deliberately attacked as many as 60 people. He was charged with six counts of intentional homicide and was detained in Waukesha County Prison on bail of $5 million. Two other dancing grandma, 71-year-old LeAnna Owen and 52-year-old Tamara Durand, were killed along with 81-year-old William Hospel (a dancing grandma’s husband) and a bank employee named Jane Kulich. She was 52 years old. Is walking beside her company's float. Jackson Sparks was 8 years old. He died of a brain injury two days after he was shot during a parade with a baseball team. His 12-year-old brother Tucker was also shot and injured, but was discharged after receiving treatment for a skull fracture. A relative of the Sparks family told the Post that Jackson’s parents did not want to talk about their son publicly.

The three injured children are still in good condition at the Children's Hospital in Waukesha. Many other victims have been discharged from the hospital but suffered life-changing injuries. A hospital source told the Washington Post that a child's limbs were almost torn off.

Crystal Ruloff (Crystal Ruloff) is a bartender in Nice Ash. She was watching the parade in the apartment above the bar. She said she would never forget to see Brooks roaring from the side on the street. Turning to the other side, pick two people before her eyes.

"This is absolutely terrible," Lulov told the Washington Post. "There are corpses everywhere. I think I'm watching something on TV. It's not true. This kind of thing doesn't happen in Waukesha."

Waukesha’s charming Main Street is where the parade attack took place, similar to a postmodern Maybury RFD. Splashes of bleach can be seen on the streets, covering the blood stains that were splattered on November 21st. Blue lights can be seen on the windows of the house throughout the night as part of the "Unity with Blue Light" event sponsored by the city.

Waukesha Mayor Shawn Reilly said that locals are slowly clearing up the mess.

"It took away some of our innocence," Reilly said. "I don't think we will feel the same about participating in the parade. We feel very sad for the people affected. Some injuries are terrible. Many people were run over by cars, so there were many head injuries. Many people saw them in front of them. Massacre. We will deal with this issue for a long time."

Waukesha Police Captain Bowman, a native son, sounds more hopeful. He said that the massive donations and support to Wakosha and his victims "actually united us."

"This is terrible," he said. "But it also brings us closer together. Hearing the voices of ordinary people around the world really helps us, and it will help us recover."

Millard now works as a teacher's assistant every day, practicing the "dancing grandma" routine, with her husband and daughter, and talking on the phone with her twin sisters in California-but she still doubts whether the town can recover. She said that she started to collapse at work the other day.

"I can't stop seeing Ginny dying in front of me in my mind," she said. "I know that I am not the only person affected by this. I can't imagine that we will overcome all this."