Darrell Brooks Jr., who is charged with driving through a 2021 Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring dozens of others, made a tearful opening statement Thursday as he began presenting his own defense. He said the incident was not premeditated.
The man accused of plowing an SUV through a Wisconsin Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring dozens, was removed from the courtroom as his trial began. Darrell Brooks then removed his shirt WAUKESHA, Wis. — The man charged with driving through a 2021 Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring dozens of others, made a tearful opening statement Thursday as he began presenting his own defense.
Brooks, 40, of Milwaukee, is charged with six counts of first-degree intentional homicide, 61 counts of recklessly endangering safety, six counts of hit-and-run causing death, two counts of bail jumping — all felonies in connection to the parade tragedy — and one count of misdemeanor battery.Defendant gives emotional opening statement
Brooks has repeatedly challenged the judge's authority and balked at her rulings. On Thursday, after the state showed a video Brooks had posted to social media of him rapping, which featured the red SUV that struck people in the parade, Brooks vehemently objected. He called it"ridiculous" that he be expected to give a legal argument as to why it should not be shown.
So far Brooks has questioned both the state's witnesses and his own on their memories of the incident, seeming to lay some groundwork to argue he could not be positively identified as the driver of the vehicle despite overwhelming video and photo evidence. Testimony got heated as Kirby said he cautioned the ex-girlfriend from meeting up with Brooks, saying it was a"bad idea" and he was worried for her safety, and said he"saw a red SUV take off like a bat out of hell down Main Street and go through a crowd of people."
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