Multiple dead after car ploughs through parade in Wisconsin

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Well....if it turns out to be this person, he'll, at least, spend the rest of his life in prison.

I work in the criminal courts. A not inconsiderable amount of people have records like what I've just read. A pretty typical rap sheet for a career criminal. It can be said that, at times, there's too much leniency.

By no means, though, are the majority of people who grew up in lower socioeconomic conditions criminals.

It doesn't matter all that much whether there's a connection to Rittenhouse, or to terrorism, or to whatever----the driver of the red SUV killed at least five people, and injured at least 40 people.

It doesn't matter if the driver of the red SUV was black, white, green, or polka-dotted----he killed at least five people, and injured at least 40 people.

Common sense states that there was at least some intent in this. He didn't just get there by accident, I don't believe. I believe he had to go through a bunch of barriers in order to get to Main Street. I know, from experience, that barrier set up in parade areas are very difficult to breach.

Of course, this impression is pending subsequent news.

The defendant's rap sheet, of course, shouldn't have been released.

Really.....it's sad and pathetic. A bunch of lives wasted because of some idiot who wanted to avoid jail (if this was the only motivation for this)

If this was the same person who sought to escape police chasing him, he probably would have been sentenced on the fleeing from police to a term concurrent with what he faced in his open case. In other words, he probably wouldn't have had to serve extra time for the new offense (fleeing from police). Prosecutors only seek consecutive sentences in extraordinary circumstances. This guy just seemed like a "run of the mill" sort of criminal----unless this occurred.

If you look at a sample of rap sheets, you will notice many "concurrent" sentences. They do this for administrative convenience, rather than a desire for some sort of "justice."

Belief and speculation are irrelevant.

Yeah....that's all well and good....but I never claimed it was anything other than "belief and speculation."

We have to look out for subsequent news. And we have to await the subsequent proceedings which will arise from this occurrence.

It is a fact, though, that it is a pity that at least five people had to be killed, and at least 40 people injured, by someone driving a red Ford SUV.

The police have officially identified the "person of interest" as being Darrell Brooks, Jr. His ID was found in the Ford SUV, and he was found in possession of a Ford key. It is not registered to him---but to a woman who lives in the same house as him.

Habitual criminal + unemployed = Rapper.

Considering he might be very at home in a prison, it makes you wonder why he seemed so desperate to avoid it. I'm sure whatever trouble he was in wasn't THAT bad to warrant what he did unless he was off his face of drugs which seems likely.