He killed 6 people not 5. The little boy died later. He was kept alive so that the family could donate his organs. That takes a lot of compassion for a family to lose a child and still think of other families in need.
@Marilyn Glazier when I heard what Jackson family did and donated his organs but your right the compassion that it took for them to do that selfless act of kindness , this whole thing is heartbreaking and listen to this piece of sh*t talk about healing on both sides and is the prosection even thinking about the families and victims is so i cant even think of the words , I am sorry for Brooks kids his mother but BROOKS YOU ALONE put them in that situation !!!
Fun fact: the jury was ready to acquit him of all charges until he said, "Do the right thing". They were so compelled that they all agreed to find him guilty on all counts.
The amount of time that it took the jury to come back with Guilty on all 76 charges, was exactly the amount of time it took them to fill out the 76 forms.
You know the minute that Brooks mentioned “doing the right thing” during his closing argument, each and every member of the jury thought to themselves, “oh, we will”.
The part about not kicking themselves later is what cracked me up. If a juror was genuinely torn on nullifying, and the two futures they could have kicked themselves over were "I let this guy the community hates walk, everybody is miserable, the guy ends up back in jail anyways but is a walking threat until it happens and this jury is considered one of the worst in modern history" or "I put a guy who can't stay out of a court house in jail, because he drove over people, and if I'm somehow wrong, it's his self representation that was unable to prove it". Or maybe best case scenario for him "I feel bad I put a father in jail for life but there was literally no way he wasn't guilty so that part can't weigh on me anyways". Like literally if a juror was torn and thought about that it would turn them against him ten times out of ten.
Agreed! After what these jurors have had to sit through, I hope they at least felt some satisfaction that they would be able to do something for the victims' loved ones. They deserve at least that much.
I have never seen a defendant who was such a self centered, non caring individual. He did not give a damn he murdered those people. He only cared about getting off. He is a repulsive individual.
If he's not housed in protective custody he will end up face to face with someone who was impacted with this crime. I hope they get some more justice then.
@@shannonEGBOK I'm of the opinion, that wherever they put him, somebody knows somebody.... Did he still has to deal with the court case of what he did to the ex-girlfriend. I mean he's already in jail for life. He still got to pay for that one...
I also think that of the Cruz case- they better be grateful to the Bailiffs that protect them or this WOULD be a death sentence case 🙄 They’re so lucky we don’t treat them the way they treat other people.
Ikr? He’s always moaning about his rights, he doesn’t consent to this, blah blah. Never once does he acknowledge the people he killed had the right to live, but he wants to treated preciously, after all the things he’s done.
He actually killed 6 people. 8 yr old Jackson Sparks passed 2 days later from traumatic brain injury. The other 5 were Virginia “Ginny” Sorensen 79, Leanna Owen 71, Tamara Durand 52, Wilhelm Hospel 81, and Jane Kulich 52. God rest their souls and I hope their families are able to heal from this senseless tragedy.
Thank you for honoring the victims. People always only remember the perpetrators. I’ll forget this prick’s name, but I’ll work to remember the victims.
I can't imagine any of their families pain but the child especially because I have a daughter who recently got a bad concussion and it scared the hell out of me and she never lost consciousness but was extremely confused for hours. Watching your baby suffer is the worst pain I could ever imagine. 💔
Not to mention the 60+ others he seriously injured, their families, the first responders and their families, the witnesses… This fool forever altered the lives of HUNDREDS of people. When he was questioning that poor mom that had all 4 of her kids hospitalized I swear that was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. How she was able to keep her composure and not leap across that stand at him is beyond me. I don’t think I’d be able to be that strong. It’s really surprising that nobody tried to take a swing at him. There was the guy in the court that yelled at him at one point, and the victim impact statement by one of the son’s of Jane was very emotionally heated and I thought at one point he was gonna snap and go after him. And I wouldn’t have blamed him for doing so. Darrell, his momma, and his “pastor” grandmother are all incredibly insufferable, self centered, professional victim, awful human beings. My heart continues to go out to all of the people hurt…especially the children. ❤
Thank you so much, & prayers sent up to Heaven for these innocent folks that were killed, slain, because an entitled monster was mad or passed off about being offended...
"The jury should know," but he objects to every single piece of information the prosecution wants to admit into evidence. He only wants the jury to know the information that supports his story... whatever the fuck his story is, I have no idea what his defense is but it doesn't seem to make much sense at all. He's trying to dispute the fact that it was actually him in the car when it plowed through that parade. But it also seems that he's trying to say that the car malfunctioned, causing him to plow through the parade. I don't think even he knows what his defense is.
What's crazy to me is the dude had the goal to try to argue jury nullification which makes no sense in this case in order to achieve jury nullification a perpetrator has to be sympathetic for example if a man kidnaps your child and raped him or her and you shot that guy in the face you are now charged with murder you might want to argue for jury nullification I personally wouldn't convict you and I don't care how much evidence the state had but there was no sympathy to be garnered from Mr Brooks he did what he did because he's an evil son of a bitch And he shows no remorse
Its such a gift he represented himself… his victims and their families really got a gift to see him self destruct and show what a self absorbed monster he really is… if he had representation they would never see the true monster… In this case the monster was more apparent than any case Ive seen
Really, your comment is a so true. After hearing about other crimes, I’m certain these criminals have mare similar to Brooks; quick to temper, long record, deadbeat and no conscience. But they stay silent and do what their attorneys say, dressing up in a suit and trying to look innocent.
@Blob86 W 🎯 That couldn't be more true. I thought the same thing from the minute the trial started. I don't think I've ever come across a more narcissistic sociopath and psychopath in my entire 53 years on earth. I work in mental health and I seriously don't know which is a harder disorder for people to be in recovery with. They both really can overlap each other.
I see your point but at the same time I feel like it’s adding “insult to injury” and it is extra torturous to watch him as they already know he’s an indescribable monster and then the court allows him to indulge himself the whole time and get all the attention he wanted
He must not have reviewed Ted Bundy's different Court trials where he represented himself. Ted displayed to the world his inner 'monster' also..........he fried.........too bad Brooks didn't.
He doesn’t even have custody of any of his children nor does he see them . They live in different states and he owes back child support from as far back as 2009 .
In 2016 my entire brake system failed on my Dodge Durango . I was at the top of a hill headed down towards a busy intersection in a school zone during school dismissal. I refused to involve another vehicle/ person so I took it off the road in hopes of losing some momentum . But the dip that ran alongside the road damaged my steering . And I struck a corner of a building . Burst fractured my spine . But that was easier to live with than involving another human being . That was my choice . His choice was to hurt people and there is no disguising this truth . His karma alone , to me , would be insurmountable. That’s what u get when u choose chaos
Brooks is such a violent imbecile, you’d think he would want to stay far away from cops after being in jail 48 hours prior and violating the terms of his bail, but instead he heads straight to where the most cops and squad cars are in the city at the time instead of turning the freaking steering wheel.
@@bellezanegra0206 I believe the running her over was about two weeks prior to the parade incident. He also a day before the parade and the day of the parade also punched and/or slapped her both times when they met up because he wanted her to pay him back the money he spent on bail
@@thelatinist5024 lol, he tried to open the door on 'past bad acts' at least a couple of times! But that was just because he didn't know it he was doing.
Six people were killed - Virginia Sorenson, 79; Leanna Owen, 71; Tamara Durand, 52; Jane Kulich, 52; Wilhelm Hospel, 81, and Jackson Sparks, 8 years old. Thank you jury, Judge & prosecution for your patience - and thank you Bruce & Michael.
Thank you. All of these people had names and lives. I think this is especially important because of the way the case was tried and the way DB tried to discount the victims when he interrogated the witnesses by not referring to them by name or at all.
@@KriegAdler09 To be fair, he isn't the first I have heard make this mistake. The last victim died at the hospital a few days later. For some reason people forget that.
This judge was so pissed during this entire trial. The guy made a mockery of his offense and completely disregarded the families feelings for a second time
My favorite part is the jury getting a verdict in 3 ish hours. So they spent like, less then 3 minutes per verdict for all 76 counts. Jury smacked his bs down hard.
You have to figure its about 2 hours and 59 minutes to laugh about how insane the whole thing was, 59 seconds to catch their breath and one second to all say guilty.
@@ParanormalEncyclopedia I thought maybe they needed an hour and a half to fill out 76 verdict forms, and the rest of the time for coffee breaks, laughing at his stupidity and stretching their legs.
@@nottellingyou14 Yeah didn't even think of that. Gotta assume a lot of laughing though. I mean he seriously tried to argue that the jury should just nulify the pesky laws against murder.
I get the sentiment, but somehow I’m not seeing any “laughing” about anything by the jury. I’m sure they all breathed a sigh of relief as they made their verdict, but even as ridiculous as he’s been and the many laughable antics, the seriousness would deter any human being. Thankfully they did the RIGHT thing and upheld the law. Now this POS scumbag is forever off the streets!! ☮️👍🏼☮️
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And showed exactly how soulless and devoid of empathy he is. How he could roll his eyes and act so fippant in the faces of all his victims during their impact statements was mind blowing. There is no question this guy is rage inducing and disgusting but it's also fascinating to see how depraved and inhuman he is. This is a very interesting case and I'm sure criminologists will pick this one apart in detail for years to come.
He really thought he was going to get somewhere with this whole "I'm a victim too, in fact I'm the bigger victim." schtick. The fact that he is behaving now means he is capable, he just chose not to throughout the entire trial. All his little outbursts, arguing and backtalk was simply a control tactic for him. He just wanted to torture everyone involved for his own ego.
Right because he had nothing…zero…defense. His only chance was provoke a mistrial by poking the bear over and over to see if they make a procedural mistake. Evil incarnate.
Narcissists like him learn this behaviour over time and they don't change it because it works! He thought it would work here! He will have a number of caretakers before him that enabled this behaviour over and over and so he learned that if he does what he does it will get him what he wants. That's how you turn children into men like this. He's still responsible for his behaviour but this sort of thing doesn't come out of a vacuum. Did you watch his mother's interview after he was sentenced? She put on a great show of being upset, the only time she released an actual tear was when the reporter asked her directly about the effect of it on her own life. THEN and only then did a tear roll - self-pity. She was roused to genuine sadness when her own life was brought into question. He has a family full of this same narcisssism.
I’ve watched all of these cases, but I find myself willing to watch them all over again with Bruce’s commentary and facial expressions. Legend. Hilarious.
He was DEFINITELY one of those kids who stood in front of the mirror practicing his presidential speech, pretending to be the teacher or on a radio show.😂 loves his voice wayyyyy too much
Agreed. “You have the power,” “I’m going to speak from the heart.” This guy thought he was in some feel-good movie vie where the poor victim is unjustly prosecuted by the powers that be, only to be found not guilty and then made a Supreme Court justice who makes the laws less mean.
I think the thing that infuriates me the most about Daryl Brooks is complete inability to care or understand how regular social interactions work. He really sat there and was a dick to everybody and then still somehow expected the jury to sympathize with him enough to just let him walk. Never acknowledged any kind of a story or reason for why he did what he did. Basically just tried the side step the whole thing
Narcissists live in a grand delusion. This is why his conduct =/= consequences in his own mind. As far as he's concerned, he's the victim. The court system is victimizing him. His ex-girlfriend and mother of child was victimizing him, the governmental system was victimizing him, the law was victimizing him. He is the ultimate victim. The fact he murdered 6 people and injured many others pales in comparison to the pain he feels in his delusional experience. His experience is the only one that matters. These victims should have heard the horn! It was the car - it malfunctioned and magically hit those people! He's mentally ill and so isn't at fault! His girlfriend made him so mad that he just HAD to hit her and the rage he felt made him go out and kill and maim people! Over and over again, it's someone else's fault. This is the nature of the delusion - they are faultless, and any error they make is the fault of someone or something else. There is no reasoning with the delusional. It's not possible. There will always be a spiral of excuses as to why they cannot be held to their own actions. It's like trying to hold water in your hands, it will always flow out through some crack.
There was already a minuscule chance of the jury finding him innocent but the SECOND he said his conscience was clear, he destroyed even the smallest of chances.
I know how this happened. You were mad at your girlfriend, throwing a tantrum (like we've witnessed in court) and made the decision to drive down the parade route and mow down anyone and everyone you could. That's how this happened.
i work a few miles from waukesha and i still remember being at work when this happened and the panic of my coworkers trying to call their kids and their loved ones it’s something that will never leave my mind
That just breaks my heart. There's so many things I didn't think about or understand until I actually watched this case. I hope everyone was okay at your workplace.
I'm so sorry you and all the other victims of this "man's" crime. Every one of you and other victims deserve justice. I understand you weren't physically there that evening but you and others that had that terror is heartbreaking. It reminds me of the families of the 911 victims.
I am a lawyer in Australia and although I don’t practice extensively in crime, I appear in court a lot. I find your content very interesting. Although our system is a little different and the nomenclature of the crimes a little different, the principles are the same and Bruce’s commentary is always very interesting. Keep up the good work! The thing that I find amazing is that Bruce finds the time to make this amount of content while managing what must be a busy practice. Thanks for taking the time to share.
Usually I'd complain about the double audio, but in this case, it accurately conveyed the feeling of watching Brooks live. (What is happening? What is this garbled noise?)
2 and a half minutes per count. Not including time it takes to leave the courtroom and re-enter. Not including time it takes to fill out the paper work. So you’re looking at close to a minute per count.
@@hithere9377 yeah, that's what I figure. 2 hours to look over evidence and leave for the night... then an hour 13 minutes later the judge was notified that they had reached a verdict. Slightly less than a minute per charge.
Yep first jury in the world or in the history of the civilized world to ever speed run through 76 counts and come back with a guilty verdict on all of them. And to think he honestly thought the jury would go out of their way to nullify the law to get him off he actually thought that he had a chance to convince them to do that, which just goes to show you how narcissistic he actually is.
Exactly. He was so busy trying to defend the "law" that he forgot to defend himself. Not to mention that he was also busy trying to discredit and embarras Ms. Patterson that I think he forgot why he was even on trial in the first place. This guy spent so much time trying to discredit parents of the children he ran over because they didn't actually see him do it, that he made himself out to be the monster everyone thought he was. Calling these folks as witnesses was disgraceful, shameful, and borderline sadistic. Frankly, I think he enjoyed trying to discredit them.
I got into an argument the other day with someone attacking me for pointing that out. They very adamantly claimed he never said it. I gave them the time stamp of him saying just that!
Too bad they can't give him the death penalty. Of course he did it on purpose, like a little boy having a temper tantrum because he didn't get his way.
Between that and all the times he made them have to get up and leave and come back and leave again .. that woulda pissed me off enough to offer to be the one who fills out all the guilty papers myself
Haha! I know what u mean….he was just a boreing idiot…..and full of himself but in his case it was pretty obvious he didnt care he was running down people and that makes him guilty as charged
I still can’t believe he actually thought that jury would decide to nullify the law on his behalf. He pressed so hard to make sure they were aware it was an option. But how could he ever think that 12 people would decide to overlook the law on his behalf. It’s mind blowing how high an opinion he has of himself.
I love his particular phrasing too. "You can nullify laws you disagree with". Yeah bro, the jury is totally going to disagree with laws against murder.
But don’t Christians believe that everything that happens is God’s will? Y’all pretend like you’re horrified by senseless violence but then you use the same logic to defend your own atrocities.
@@user-ro9md9wp3j Not all Christians are extremist nutjobs like that. Thankfully, most are reasonable. It does suck that the reasonable majority doesn't do more to rein in their more psychotic counterparts, tho. They can and they should, but most just don't.
Especially the family of that little boy. He had his whole life ahead of him and Darrell Brooks stole it from him and doesn’t even show remorse for killing a child, as well as five other innocent people. Truly pathetic.
@@fugginrambo I had been wanting to make a comment for a long time...especially to his son, Michael. Anyhow, since his dad sort of brought it to our attention, I thought now's the time. I realize it's very, very hard being the Creative.
Having done a fair amount of video editing I know it's sometimes easy to miss things or render an outdated version of the video you're working on. I appreciate how hard you guys work on your videos, but I do think this one would benefit from a tune up. I'm sure you guys are working on it already. I love your videos and I hope you don't see this as a negative comment. Keep up the good work!
I came here to look for a comment like yours. I can’t imagine how hard editing would be but this video makes me appreciate all the other videos that are flawlessly executed
Agreed, love this channel but the audio is such a distraction from the story it becomes unwatchable. A quick quality check prior to posting each video could prevent a lot of headaches. And to keep the video up this long without fixing it gives the impression that you don’t care about your audience. Perhaps you don’t know how to fix it after the fact, if that’s the case, maybe mention it at the beginning of the video or make a separate one explaining the situation. Otherwise the audience feels confused bewildered
I know it would be unprofessional, but just once I wanted the judge to say, "I'm going to be the one deciding how long you're in jail, smart-ass. Quit pissing me off!"
It's worth pointing out that Brooks not giving testimony wasn't a strategic decision, it was the result of the judge interpreting Brooks's refusal to call additional witnesses when repeatedly asked if he had any additional witnesses or intended to testify himself as forfeiting through his own conduct the right to call any further witnesses or give any further testimony. Darrell Brooks conducted himself in the courtroom as one who could do whatever he wanted because there was no meaningful way the Judge could punish him for his conduct. What was she going to do? Add a few months for contempt of court on top of six consecutive life sentences?
This entire closing argument shows he has no regrets and still only thinks about himself. He talks about how HE will never hold his child, not about his child growing up without him. He talks about HIM not being able to meet his newborn son, not about his kids not having a dad. Oh, and he talks about his conscience being clear. He deserves every minute in jail. I'm glad he won't get the death penalty; that would be too fast.
The oldest daughter said that she and his other kids hate him! He has ignored them for years! He owes $40,00 in back child support!"He is only using them now to gain sympathy for himself! His is totally vile and evil to the core!
Thank you Bruce. This trial was crazy, glad it’s over. Not one ounce of remorse for the people he killed and injured, only remorse Darrell has was for himself.
I want to agree 109% with you, but after going back and rewatching the whole trial (yes, I’m a glutton for punishment) he had noticeable regret, noticeable pain, when it came to the kids, when their injuries or autopsies were testified to. It can be argued the pain was his fear/panic at another thing detailing publicly why he’s in trouble like in his opening, but I don’t think so. I think the kids are a soft spot. Had more parents been in the stand to detail their kids injuries, we would’ve seen his regret more. He is despicable, an easy target for ridicule and definitely deserves everything he gets, but again, I think he regrets harming the kids. If anyone reads this, I know he’s a shit parent to his own kids, so how can he regret hurting others? If he never had good role models for parents, it makes it hard(er) to be a good parent. You can love a child and not be a good parent. Behaviors are not emotions.
@@Bozbaby103 if you bought that act of him forcing tears and repeatedly, with as much drama as an elementary school play, that he was having an emotional moment, you are the epitome of gullibility. Don’t worry, you’re not alone; (wink wink nudge nudge)…mommy believes him too (well okay, she doesn’t. But if she doesn’t go along with the monster she created, he might send one of his gang buddies after her).
He says it wasn't intentional, watching the trial he blames everyone else but himself. I believe HE believes it wasn't intentional because that would mean it was HIS actions. He can't deal with that... nothing is ever Darrell's fault.
Also love how he states “I blew my horn so even tho I deliberately drove thru your parade and deliberately hit ppl I did blow my horn so they should have moved” unbelievable!!
Right up there with lamenting to the cops interviewing him that his life is basically over, and complaining to the judge that he's fighting for his life. One has to ask - what exactly was so wonderful about his life that it was worth preserving?
I discovered your channel 2 weeks ago and have been absolutely binging. You’re a legend. Also one thing I definitely notice: Michael is getting a LOT of mileage out of those cuff links :)
He didn't testify for himself because he figured he could "testify" in his own way with his closing arguments. He uses his "emotions" (which are fake to begin with) to try to sway the jury. It is probably how he got the women to fall for him and want to "fix him" or "help him" but the rest of us who actually can see him for the monster he is aren't fooled one bit!! He is a complete narcissist!!
Thanks Michael! I’m so glad you’re helping your dad provide all of this content for us, it’s awesome. You should do a cameo some time! I’m so curious to see a lil Bruce haha
Thank you for reacting to this! I had hoped you would. And thanks to Michael for helping the channel so much! But I'm not sure what happened with the technical issues? Edit- You didn't hear one of his best lines! He said he had a clear conscience!!! You really should have reacted to the prosecutor's rebuttal. She did an excellent comeback to his 'feel sorry for me' nonsense.
Yeah, I watched the whole trial and he was so cringe most of the time. Every once in a while he would almost make a good point, but would shoot himself in the foot a moment later.
I hope the members of the jury keep silent, because one wrong word it's a mistrial. There is a high profile rape case in Australia and a jury member said the wrong thing, instant mistrial. After lots of emotions and waste of taxpayers money another trial is taking place in February 2023. Greetings from the UK 🇬🇧
Listening to him, I had the urge to climb through the screen and pull that fire alarm on the wall behind him, just to make him stop. Serving up the pity play is sooooo disgusting. Hard to hear.
To hear a murderer actually say "we should have a long life to live" is so sickening. First time I've ever actually heard a POS say this. I wouldn't say or do anything if this guy got real justice
I think people who have never been to jail do not fully understand how terrible the rest of his life is about to be. Death would be a blessing for him. He is 40 years old. He will have to live the next 30-40 years a line in a cell. No love, no companionship, no birthday celebrations , no special moments. Around a bunch of other convicts who hate child killers. He will be on the bad end of extortion , he will be assaulted and possibly become someone’s boy toy. The guards will mess with him and put him in the hole at every chance they get. It will be a slow painful and miserable death. I wouldn’t be surprised if he killed himself. I hope he doesn’t and lives 50 years of this torture.
I believe that comment sealed his fate. Even if the car malfunctioned and he honked his horn to warn people (not true), any rational person would have some remorse. The jury saw through all of his BS.
@@Bob-fy8bt I agree. Not to mention his demeanor towards actual victims or parents/spouses/family of victims during questioning. His lack of remorse or any acknowledgement of his own culpability is absolutely appalling
He was enraged because he was just bonded out of jail from trying to run over his ex just a week or two before this parade and was pissed that he again wasn't able to control her and get her to refuse to testify or change her story, so he was trying to physically attack her again only this time she had two friends with her. The female friend he struck in the face when she tried to defend his ex, but then the male friend yanked both women behind himself and Brooks being half this man's size backed down. The male friend told Brooks to leave that he had already alerted the police of his presence. Brooks made a U-turn crashed thru the barriers blocking the parade route, almost hitting the police standing by the barriers. Brooks honked his horn and ran over the crowed. His vehicle was found to be in perfect working condition and even if it hadn't been Ford said it had no effect on the braking system and that Brooks could have simply stopped the vehicle like the all the others that had malfunctioned.
Your missing the part where he didn't just go straight to the parade route he went to the gas station and stopped. He wasn't accidentally on the parade route because he was afraid of police the street he drove down had police vehicles on it with lights flashing. If he was afraid to get caught he wouldn't have drove towards the police. Before he dropped his GF off they drove around the area for 35 minutes he knew how to drive out of the area without being seen by police.
@@allenwoody8738 no, he was at the gas station prior to meeting with Erika, prior to the parade. He went straight from White Rock Ave (where they got into the fight) to Main street and took a right onto the parade route. IF he had turned right onto Barstow (going towards the gas station) instead of slamming into the first victim and then the Waukesha West Band, he would have been on his way to that gas station and SO MANY lives would never have been impacted. I live a mile from this street he murdered people on. Fear moved quickly throughout Waukesha. My son received a Snapchat saying that there was an active shooter driving towards our home shooting people... We feared for what could be coming our way. Of course, it was just rumors, but still!
@@schmatsa9231 i am so sorry he did all this to you and you're community. Seeing the strength of Waukesha and how kind everyone is both heartbreaking and inspiring.
The male friend you are referencing is Nick Kirby. He's a known pedophile and he's even smaller than Darrell Brooks at 5'6, so I'm not sure where you got your facts.
@@betochiwas no shit. It was his entire tactic. He knows he is guilty and the only way out is a mistrial. He didn’t even say sorry once to the victims.
Fascinating breakdown of this nutty pro se ( Latin: for yourself”) trial. Love the grandma in the basement e-form commercials too. 😂 I can just picture grandma with a “Don’t Self Snitch” hat on. lol. Great job Bruce and Michael!
did you see the short with his wife? It's lovely to see both of them show so much pride in their boy. They're all so cute they should have their own show...lol
This dude was literally saying “if you don’t agree with the laws I am being accused of breaking, nullify this trial.” Like…dude, the laws are “killing old women and children with your car,” LOL I’m pretty sure nobody on that jury disagrees with that law.
@@DemxnTheyThem The state cannot appeal if a jury acquits someone. That's the end of the case. The only time prosecutors can appeal a decision is if a judge tries the case and makes the decision. A "Not Guilty" vote by a jury is the end of the line and the end of the charges. They cannot be appealed and they cannot be refilled.
The thing about jury nullification is that most people take those two words and think that it's about the jury. Jury nullification is when a jury thinks that the law is wrong, and they nullify the LAW. For example, an entire jury nullifying marijuana possession laws for example. This jury would have to think that intentional homicide isn't a good law to enforce and should be stricken from the record. That's what makes it even funnier, DB thought that they'd say "yeah, intentional homicide IS a stupid restriction on peoples' rights, you're right, go free."
In the clip of the prosecutor you played at the beginning she was actually asking the judge to just let him argue jury nullification and give an instruction to the jury so that they could get it over with. It shows their confidence in their case.
What a rollercoaster. His orignial argument is that he was not the one driving, then there was a fault with the car, and then at the end he says he did not intend to kill.
@@kellyc2425 IMHO his pronunciation of ask is fine, his pronunciation is known as African American Vernacular English (AAVE) which has historical context.
I was watching this body language and a legal analysts cover this. They pointed out that when Darrel started crying, he saw the jurors weren't showing him the sympathy he was hoping for- they were giving nothing. Hysterical when people like that find themselves in an environment where their usual manipulations tactics don't work. They were used to behaving a certain way but now that behavior was also part of their downfall and dug a deeper hole. Also hysterical that he thought a reddit post could save him... "I've never seen this before" yeah, sure... cry harder
He really honestly feels sorry for himself. Never even accepted any of blame. I so hate him. If a driver runs into a person, they stop the car and run to help them. He didn’t even try to help and just ran away and now he’s the victim. 😡😡😡
His closing argument is basically “it’s unfair that you want to punish me for what I’ve done because I don’t want you to 😢”
True. His defense was also hey they were in my way not my fault
Yeah, he honked. It's their problem they didn't get out of his way fast enough. Such a stupid waste of a pretend to be human being.
@@ethical13 yea.....The people should have bent like the Matrix (Matrix facepalm)
he has a i'm a black victim of the white devil syndrome and zero personal acountability!
@@mromatic17 Lots of people are victims of racism but we don’t drive through parades. He’s a psychopath.
He killed 6 people not 5. The little boy died later. He was kept alive so that the family could donate his organs. That takes a lot of compassion for a family to lose a child and still think of other families in need.
Dear Lord Jesus, your comfort please.
good point Marilyn!
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@Marilyn Glazier when I heard what Jackson family did and donated his organs but your right the compassion that it took for them to do that selfless act of kindness , this whole thing is heartbreaking and listen to this piece of sh*t talk about healing on both sides and is the prosection even thinking about the families and victims is so i cant even think of the words , I am sorry for Brooks kids his mother but BROOKS YOU ALONE put them in that situation !!!
I didn't know that that makes my heartbreak even more God bless that family
Fun fact: the jury was ready to acquit him of all charges until he said, "Do the right thing". They were so compelled that they all agreed to find him guilty on all counts.
You're kidding I hope.
ofcourse it is a joke David don't't be stupid
Well put it made me laugh
Lol 😂
@vizoredchris Oh. My. God. BEST comment ever! You win the prize.
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The amount of time that it took the jury to come back with Guilty on all 76 charges, was exactly the amount of time it took them to fill out the 76 forms.
He will be granted an appeal
The jury probably wanted this case to be done and over with as much as the prosecution.
@@mikedick6029 He definitely deserves an appeal. It is totally clear that the defense attorney was working for the prosecution. HA!
@@mikedick6029 he will file and it will be tossed.
@@mikedick6029 even if there are grounds for appeal, he simply does not have the legal knowledge necessary to make a successful case
You know the minute that Brooks mentioned “doing the right thing” during his closing argument, each and every member of the jury thought to themselves, “oh, we will”.
The part about not kicking themselves later is what cracked me up.
If a juror was genuinely torn on nullifying, and the two futures they could have kicked themselves over were "I let this guy the community hates walk, everybody is miserable, the guy ends up back in jail anyways but is a walking threat until it happens and this jury is considered one of the worst in modern history" or "I put a guy who can't stay out of a court house in jail, because he drove over people, and if I'm somehow wrong, it's his self representation that was unable to prove it". Or maybe best case scenario for him "I feel bad I put a father in jail for life but there was literally no way he wasn't guilty so that part can't weigh on me anyways". Like literally if a juror was torn and thought about that it would turn them against him ten times out of ten.
Agreed! After what these jurors have had to sit through, I hope they at least felt some satisfaction that they would be able to do something for the victims' loved ones. They deserve at least that much.
Lol, right?
I have never seen a defendant who was such a self centered, non caring individual. He did not give a damn he murdered those people. He only cared about getting off. He is a repulsive individual.
Exactly!
“I’ve chosen to speak from the heart.” Slight problem with that, Darrell - you don’t have one.
He does, just only for himself.
Think about how civilized we are to allow this guy to go through this trial without beating the shit out of him....
If he's not housed in protective custody he will end up face to face with someone who was impacted with this crime. I hope they get some more justice then.
@@shannonEGBOK They won’t need to be impacted, he is famous and killed a child and that doesn’t go down well in prison.
@@shannonEGBOK I'm of the opinion, that wherever they put him, somebody knows somebody.... Did he still has to deal with the court case of what he did to the ex-girlfriend. I mean he's already in jail for life. He still got to pay for that one...
I also think that of the Cruz case- they better be grateful to the Bailiffs that protect them or this WOULD be a death sentence case 🙄
They’re so lucky we don’t treat them the way they treat other people.
Ikr? He’s always moaning about his rights, he doesn’t consent to this, blah blah. Never once does he acknowledge the people he killed had the right to live, but he wants to treated preciously, after all the things he’s done.
He actually killed 6 people. 8 yr old Jackson Sparks passed 2 days later from traumatic brain injury. The other 5 were Virginia “Ginny” Sorensen 79, Leanna Owen 71, Tamara Durand 52, Wilhelm Hospel 81, and Jane Kulich 52. God rest their souls and I hope their families are able to heal from this senseless tragedy.
Thank you for honoring the victims. People always only remember the perpetrators. I’ll forget this prick’s name, but I’ll work to remember the victims.
I can't imagine any of their families pain but the child especially because I have a daughter who recently got a bad concussion and it scared the hell out of me and she never lost consciousness but was extremely confused for hours. Watching your baby suffer is the worst pain I could ever imagine. 💔
Not to mention the 60+ others he seriously injured, their families, the first responders and their families, the witnesses…
This fool forever altered the lives of HUNDREDS of people. When he was questioning that poor mom that had all 4 of her kids hospitalized I swear that was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. How she was able to keep her composure and not leap across that stand at him is beyond me. I don’t think I’d be able to be that strong. It’s really surprising that nobody tried to take a swing at him. There was the guy in the court that yelled at him at one point, and the victim impact statement by one of the son’s of Jane was very emotionally heated and I thought at one point he was gonna snap and go after him. And I wouldn’t have blamed him for doing so.
Darrell, his momma, and his “pastor” grandmother are all incredibly insufferable, self centered, professional victim, awful human beings.
My heart continues to go out to all of the people hurt…especially the children. ❤
Thank you so much, & prayers sent up to Heaven for these innocent folks that were killed, slain, because an entitled monster was mad or passed off about being offended...
@@autumnsantomauroganggangI hope she heals well.
This closing statement was the biggest load of self indulgent claptrap ever
Absolutely! ❤
He focused on intent -- I once heard this: if someone intended differently, they would have done differently.
Once he finally stopped the SUV why didn't he use someone phone to call the police.but no he trying to get a Uber to get away
He objects to that.
Funny how he believes the “jury should know” except he doesn’t want them to know he’s a convicted sex offender.
Great point! He's so full of contradictions, it's disgusting....
Or domestic batterer
He was her pimp, she was a Craigslist escort.
"The jury should know," but he objects to every single piece of information the prosecution wants to admit into evidence. He only wants the jury to know the information that supports his story... whatever the fuck his story is, I have no idea what his defense is but it doesn't seem to make much sense at all. He's trying to dispute the fact that it was actually him in the car when it plowed through that parade. But it also seems that he's trying to say that the car malfunctioned, causing him to plow through the parade. I don't think even he knows what his defense is.
What's crazy to me is the dude had the goal to try to argue jury nullification which makes no sense in this case in order to achieve jury nullification a perpetrator has to be sympathetic for example if a man kidnaps your child and raped him or her and you shot that guy in the face you are now charged with murder you might want to argue for jury nullification I personally wouldn't convict you and I don't care how much evidence the state had but there was no sympathy to be garnered from Mr Brooks he did what he did because he's an evil son of a bitch And he shows no remorse
Its such a gift he represented himself… his victims and their families really got a gift to see him self destruct and show what a self absorbed monster he really is… if he had representation they would never see the true monster… In this case the monster was more apparent than any case Ive seen
It’s scary how dumb and self centered his is!
Really, your comment is a so true. After hearing about other crimes, I’m certain these criminals have mare similar to Brooks; quick to temper, long record, deadbeat and no conscience. But they stay silent and do what their attorneys say, dressing up in a suit and trying to look innocent.
@Blob86 W 🎯 That couldn't be more true. I thought the same thing from the minute the trial started. I don't think I've ever come across a more narcissistic sociopath and psychopath in my entire 53 years on earth. I work in mental health and I seriously don't know which is a harder disorder for people to be in recovery with. They both really can overlap each other.
I see your point but at the same time I feel like it’s adding “insult to injury” and it is extra torturous to watch him as they already know he’s an indescribable monster and then the court allows him to indulge himself the whole time and get all the attention he wanted
He must not have reviewed Ted Bundy's different Court trials where he represented himself. Ted displayed to the world his inner 'monster' also..........he fried.........too bad Brooks didn't.
He doesn’t even have custody of any of his children nor does he see them . They live in different states and he owes back child support from as far back as 2009 .
Ya but he cut the “um-biblical-cord” so that is everything 😅😂
@@MichelleMastrullo😂😂
In 2016 my entire brake system failed on my Dodge Durango . I was at the top of a hill headed down towards a busy intersection in a school zone during school dismissal. I refused to involve another vehicle/ person so I took it off the road in hopes of losing some momentum . But the dip that ran alongside the road damaged my steering . And I struck a corner of a building . Burst fractured my spine . But that was easier to live with than involving another human being . That was my choice . His choice was to hurt people and there is no disguising this truth . His karma alone , to me , would be insurmountable. That’s what u get when u choose chaos
Bless you ❤
Sorry about those Spinal injuries. I’m amazed that you made that excellent last Minute decision! Good job!
Hope you are alright. You did the right thing :(
You did a brave thing, I hope you healed up alright ✌🏼
Brooks is such a violent imbecile, you’d think he would want to stay far away from cops after being in jail 48 hours prior and violating the terms of his bail, but instead he heads straight to where the most cops and squad cars are in the city at the time instead of turning the freaking steering wheel.
He doesn't know law, he knows buzzwords, stall tactics, and phrases that he learned from jailhouse lawyers.
And sovereign citizen websites 🤣
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Exactly. I don’t know why people keep saying, he know the law. He got his butt kicked, in that trial. He didn’t know anything.
He hasn’t been able to hold his newborn son, but the parents of the children he killed will NEVER hold their children again 💔💔
Also that kid is waaay better off without that loser raising him.
Brooks said "This wasn't an intentional act", but he was out on bond for running over his own girlfriend with the same vehicle!!!
Just days earlier right? Under a month
@@bellezanegra0206 I believe the running her over was about two weeks prior to the parade incident. He also a day before the parade and the day of the parade also punched and/or slapped her both times when they met up because he wanted her to pay him back the money he spent on bail
@@bellezanegra0206 If I remember correctly that incident was on 11/2/21.
But the jury didn’t get to hear that, of course. Somehow it seems not to have been included in “all the facts” he thought the jury should hear.
@@thelatinist5024 lol, he tried to open the door on 'past bad acts' at least a couple of times! But that was just because he didn't know it he was doing.
Six people were killed - Virginia Sorenson, 79; Leanna Owen, 71; Tamara Durand, 52; Jane Kulich, 52; Wilhelm Hospel, 81, and Jackson Sparks, 8 years old.
Thank you jury, Judge & prosecution for your patience - and thank you Bruce & Michael.
Thank YOU! So many times the victims names are never spoken or are forgotten.
Thank you. All of these people had names and lives. I think this is especially important because of the way the case was tried and the way DB tried to discount the victims when he interrogated the witnesses by not referring to them by name or at all.
Thank you - it’s insulting when even a lawyer cannot get the facts straight - multiple times in their own video.
@@KriegAdler09 To be fair, he isn't the first I have heard make this mistake. The last victim died at the hospital a few days later. For some reason people forget that.
@@windywednesday4166 Because it wasn't about them...in his mind it was always all about him. He is a narcissist.
This judge was so pissed during this entire trial. The guy made a mockery of his offense and completely disregarded the families feelings for a second time
My favorite part is the jury getting a verdict in 3 ish hours. So they spent like, less then 3 minutes per verdict for all 76 counts. Jury smacked his bs down hard.
You have to figure its about 2 hours and 59 minutes to laugh about how insane the whole thing was, 59 seconds to catch their breath and one second to all say guilty.
@@ParanormalEncyclopedia I thought maybe they needed an hour and a half to fill out 76 verdict forms, and the rest of the time for coffee breaks, laughing at his stupidity and stretching their legs.
@@nottellingyou14 Yeah didn't even think of that. Gotta assume a lot of laughing though. I mean he seriously tried to argue that the jury should just nulify the pesky laws against murder.
I get the sentiment, but somehow I’m not seeing any “laughing” about anything by the jury. I’m sure they all breathed a sigh of relief as they made their verdict, but even as ridiculous as he’s been and the many laughable antics, the seriousness would deter any human being. Thankfully they did the RIGHT thing and upheld the law. Now this POS scumbag is forever off the streets!! ☮️👍🏼☮️
Shout out to Micheal Rivers, the content genius ❤ Your dad is so awesome. You’re lucky. My dad sucks.
Mr. Rivers, it was a lucky day when your channel turned up in my suggested videos list. During covid I became very ill. 1st with Covid pneumonia, then severe anemia, sepsis, the list goes on. I was in 3 hospitals for a total of 1 year. Eventually a stroke at a relatively young age. When you can only walk with help and the hospital staff is stretched beyond belief there is little to do to occupy your mind. I was gifted a great android phone. Watching TH-cam was my saving grace! Your channel is very informative, humorous, most of all entertaining. MICHAELRIvers is a content genius. In closing i thank God for your channel, as it is so far above theother channels that are available on all the many streaming services. Ive binged your old videos and look forward forward to viewing all your upcoming new content 🎉
Can you please fix the audio echoing? It's SO satisfying watching Brooks twist in the wind as the reality of life in prison hits him.
Dude really thought he laid some profound wisdom and knowledge on them 😂
His actions during this whole trial just shows that he's capable of running people over and killing them with rage.
@dormie basne absolutely agree! The judge really did a great job. But he was just uncontrollable.
He posted a bunch of anti white things on social media. He's a racist murderer.
Amen 🙏 Jessica. Awesome comment
a few weeks prior to the incident he was arrested for running over his gf with the same car, so he's definitely capable of doing such a thing...
And showed exactly how soulless and devoid of empathy he is. How he could roll his eyes and act so fippant in the faces of all his victims during their impact statements was mind blowing. There is no question this guy is rage inducing and disgusting but it's also fascinating to see how depraved and inhuman he is. This is a very interesting case and I'm sure criminologists will pick this one apart in detail for years to come.
Darrell: “I haven’t been able to hold, touch, kiss…”
Bruce: “They’ll make arrangements for that in prison”
😂😂😂 Excellent Commentary, Sir!!!!
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He really thought he was going to get somewhere with this whole "I'm a victim too, in fact I'm the bigger victim." schtick. The fact that he is behaving now means he is capable, he just chose not to throughout the entire trial. All his little outbursts, arguing and backtalk was simply a control tactic for him. He just wanted to torture everyone involved for his own ego.
Right because he had nothing…zero…defense. His only chance was provoke a mistrial by poking the bear over and over to see if they make a procedural mistake. Evil incarnate.
Narcissists like him learn this behaviour over time and they don't change it because it works! He thought it would work here! He will have a number of caretakers before him that enabled this behaviour over and over and so he learned that if he does what he does it will get him what he wants. That's how you turn children into men like this. He's still responsible for his behaviour but this sort of thing doesn't come out of a vacuum.
Did you watch his mother's interview after he was sentenced? She put on a great show of being upset, the only time she released an actual tear was when the reporter asked her directly about the effect of it on her own life. THEN and only then did a tear roll - self-pity. She was roused to genuine sadness when her own life was brought into question. He has a family full of this same narcisssism.
"With all due respect" coming from Darrell Brooks essentially translates to "shut up and listen to me"
I can understand Darrellese, ''with all due respect'' literally translates to ''fuck you judge, I have no respect for you whatsoever''.
I’ve watched all of these cases, but I find myself willing to watch them all over again with Bruce’s commentary and facial expressions. Legend. Hilarious.
He was DEFINITELY one of those kids who stood in front of the mirror practicing his presidential speech, pretending to be the teacher or on a radio show.😂 loves his voice wayyyyy too much
Agreed. “You have the power,” “I’m going to speak from the heart.” This guy thought he was in some feel-good movie vie where the poor victim is unjustly prosecuted by the powers that be, only to be found not guilty and then made a Supreme Court justice who makes the laws less mean.
I think it was a Grammy not a presidential speech 😉
I think the thing that infuriates me the most about Daryl Brooks is complete inability to care or understand how regular social interactions work. He really sat there and was a dick to everybody and then still somehow expected the jury to sympathize with him enough to just let him walk. Never acknowledged any kind of a story or reason for why he did what he did. Basically just tried the side step the whole thing
most insufferable kinds of humans
Narcissists live in a grand delusion. This is why his conduct =/= consequences in his own mind. As far as he's concerned, he's the victim. The court system is victimizing him. His ex-girlfriend and mother of child was victimizing him, the governmental system was victimizing him, the law was victimizing him. He is the ultimate victim. The fact he murdered 6 people and injured many others pales in comparison to the pain he feels in his delusional experience. His experience is the only one that matters. These victims should have heard the horn! It was the car - it malfunctioned and magically hit those people! He's mentally ill and so isn't at fault! His girlfriend made him so mad that he just HAD to hit her and the rage he felt made him go out and kill and maim people!
Over and over again, it's someone else's fault. This is the nature of the delusion - they are faultless, and any error they make is the fault of someone or something else. There is no reasoning with the delusional. It's not possible. There will always be a spiral of excuses as to why they cannot be held to their own actions. It's like trying to hold water in your hands, it will always flow out through some crack.
He has anti social personality disorder. He has no empathy
There was already a minuscule chance of the jury finding him innocent but the SECOND he said his conscience was clear, he destroyed even the smallest of chances.
I know how this happened. You were mad at your girlfriend, throwing a tantrum (like we've witnessed in court) and made the decision to drive down the parade route and mow down anyone and everyone you could. That's how this happened.
He wanted to kill white people. He posted a bunch of racist stuff on social media.
It is pretty obvious, ain't it?
absolutely
@Brettney Gibbs- 💯👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Correct!
i work a few miles from waukesha and i still remember being at work when this happened and the panic of my coworkers trying to call their kids and their loved ones it’s something that will never leave my mind
That just breaks my heart. There's so many things I didn't think about or understand until I actually watched this case. I hope everyone was okay at your workplace.
I'm so sorry you and all the other victims of this "man's" crime. Every one of you and other victims deserve justice. I understand you weren't physically there that evening but you and others that had that terror is heartbreaking. It reminds me of the families of the 911 victims.
I am a lawyer in Australia and although I don’t practice extensively in crime, I appear in court a lot. I find your content very interesting. Although our system is a little different and the nomenclature of the crimes a little different, the principles are the same and Bruce’s commentary is always very interesting. Keep up the good work! The thing that I find amazing is that Bruce finds the time to make this amount of content while managing what must be a busy practice. Thanks for taking the time to share.
How awful that must have been . I’m so sorry for the fear and pain he caused the good people of Waukesha.
It speaks to Brooks' level of delusion that he thinks that any jury would have a desire to offer up a jury nullification in his case.
Out of his mind
Usually I'd complain about the double audio, but in this case, it accurately conveyed the feeling of watching Brooks live. (What is happening? What is this garbled noise?)
🤣 Yeah pretty accurate statement
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LOL, absolutely my experience as well!
It is fair to say... 😁
At first I thought I accidentally had two tabs playing. I've done that before. 🤣
I think it's worth mentioning that the jury spent a total of about 3 hours, 15 minutes, deliberating 76 counts.
2 and a half minutes per count. Not including time it takes to leave the courtroom and re-enter. Not including time it takes to fill out the paper work. So you’re looking at close to a minute per count.
Just filling out paperwork
@@hithere9377 yeah, that's what I figure. 2 hours to look over evidence and leave for the night... then an hour 13 minutes later the judge was notified that they had reached a verdict. Slightly less than a minute per charge.
Paperwork's a bitch.
Yep first jury in the world or in the history of the civilized world to ever speed run through 76 counts and come back with a guilty verdict on all of them.
And to think he honestly thought the jury would go out of their way to nullify the law to get him off he actually thought that he had a chance to convince them to do that, which just goes to show you how narcissistic he actually is.
“You don’t want a criminal lawyer, you want a CRIMINAL lawyer.”
Better call Saul
Lincoln lawyer
"There are two sides to every story"......he forgot to tell the jury his side.
Exactly. He was so busy trying to defend the "law" that he forgot to defend himself. Not to mention that he was also busy trying to discredit and embarras Ms. Patterson that I think he forgot why he was even on trial in the first place. This guy spent so much time trying to discredit parents of the children he ran over because they didn't actually see him do it, that he made himself out to be the monster everyone thought he was. Calling these folks as witnesses was disgraceful, shameful, and borderline sadistic. Frankly, I think he enjoyed trying to discredit them.
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"I have no regrets" I can't believe he said that! What a prick.
I got into an argument the other day with someone attacking me for pointing that out. They very adamantly claimed he never said it. I gave them the time stamp of him saying just that!
Too bad they can't give him the death penalty. Of course he did it on purpose, like a little boy having a temper tantrum because he didn't get his way.
@@RLS1 Who would defend this guy?! 😂
@spookyruthy idk I assume someone who is as insanely ignorant as he is. 🤷🏼♀️ lol
If I was a juror, I’d be so pissed sitting there listening to him everyday, I’d find him guilty just for that
Between that and all the times he made them have to get up and leave and come back and leave again .. that woulda pissed me off enough to offer to be the one who fills out all the guilty papers myself
And you should never serve on a jury for this reason
Haha! I know what u mean….he was just a boreing idiot…..and full of himself but in his case it was pretty obvious he didnt care he was running down people and that makes him guilty as charged
@@ryanm8465I think they didnt mean that litterally.
@@kelcritcarroll Like... literally not literally?!
I still can’t believe he actually thought that jury would decide to nullify the law on his behalf. He pressed so hard to make sure they were aware it was an option. But how could he ever think that 12 people would decide to overlook the law on his behalf. It’s mind blowing how high an opinion he has of himself.
He was hoping his victim hood and race card would be accepted everywhere, but this dumb n***a is so stupid he doesn't think he did anything wrong.
Isn't Narcissism astounding?
I love his particular phrasing too. "You can nullify laws you disagree with". Yeah bro, the jury is totally going to disagree with laws against murder.
I think he was going for a hung jury at that point tbf. He was swinging for the fences hoping anything sticks.
Correction "mind boggling" lol
"There's a lot of people attempting to heal"
Yes, and you being locked away for the rest of your life is the start of their healing process
"Hes going to say it the first 90 seconds"
"I object to that"
Promptly does just that
I liked how he objected to a sustained objection. This guy is so dumb.
Bruce, I feel like you missed the part where he said his conscience was clear and this was God's will. My jaw literally dropped on the floor!
I missed that too. Wow that’s sick.
It was in his opening argument.
But don’t Christians believe that everything that happens is God’s will? Y’all pretend like you’re horrified by senseless violence but then you use the same logic to defend your own atrocities.
@@user-ro9md9wp3j Not all Christians are extremist nutjobs like that. Thankfully, most are reasonable. It does suck that the reasonable majority doesn't do more to rein in their more psychotic counterparts, tho. They can and they should, but most just don't.
A rare case of honesty. His conscience is clear because he doesn't have a conscience.
Any time he talks about how hard this has been on him all I can think is how hard it must be on the families of the six people he murdered.
Especially the family of that little boy. He had his whole life ahead of him and Darrell Brooks stole it from him and doesn’t even show remorse for killing a child, as well as five other innocent people. Truly pathetic.
This should have NEVER gone to trial! If he was a REAL man, he would have just pled guilty and accepted his fate! He is a piece of s***!
I heard a lawyer say: “If the law does not apply to you, then the law cannot protect you.”
Bruce, I love how you lift your son up. It really is the sweetest thing. ❤
I KNOOOOWWW ❤
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Me too!
It looks to me like his son, Michael is the creator and creative process behind these videos.
@@camillemagdalena1761 he's definitely said that many times. I think he did the intro song too. Bruce seems like an awesome guy
@@fugginrambo I had been wanting to make a comment for a long time...especially to his son, Michael.
Anyhow, since his dad sort of brought it to our attention, I thought now's the time.
I realize it's very, very hard being the Creative.
Having done a fair amount of video editing I know it's sometimes easy to miss things or render an outdated version of the video you're working on. I appreciate how hard you guys work on your videos, but I do think this one would benefit from a tune up.
I'm sure you guys are working on it already. I love your videos and I hope you don't see this as a negative comment. Keep up the good work!
I came here to look for a comment like yours. I can’t imagine how hard editing would be but this video makes me appreciate all the other videos that are flawlessly executed
i thought the same thing. but he's still learning! that's the cool part about stuff like video editing - he's only gonna get better and better at it.
Yes sir. I'm not trying to be rude, but the content genius kinda screwed the pooch on this one.
Agreed, love this channel but the audio is such a distraction from the story it becomes unwatchable. A quick quality check prior to posting each video could prevent a lot of headaches. And to keep the video up this long without fixing it gives the impression that you don’t care about your audience. Perhaps you don’t know how to fix it after the fact, if that’s the case, maybe mention it at the beginning of the video or make a separate one explaining the situation. Otherwise the audience feels confused bewildered
I know it would be unprofessional, but just once I wanted the judge to say, "I'm going to be the one deciding how long you're in jail, smart-ass. Quit pissing me off!"
It's worth pointing out that Brooks not giving testimony wasn't a strategic decision, it was the result of the judge interpreting Brooks's refusal to call additional witnesses when repeatedly asked if he had any additional witnesses or intended to testify himself as forfeiting through his own conduct the right to call any further witnesses or give any further testimony.
Darrell Brooks conducted himself in the courtroom as one who could do whatever he wanted because there was no meaningful way the Judge could punish him for his conduct. What was she going to do? Add a few months for contempt of court on top of six consecutive life sentences?
This entire closing argument shows he has no regrets and still only thinks about himself. He talks about how HE will never hold his child, not about his child growing up without him. He talks about HIM not being able to meet his newborn son, not about his kids not having a dad.
Oh, and he talks about his conscience being clear. He deserves every minute in jail. I'm glad he won't get the death penalty; that would be too fast.
The oldest daughter said that she and his other kids hate him! He has ignored them for years! He owes $40,00 in back child support!"He is only using them now to gain sympathy for himself! His is totally vile and evil to the core!
Nah, we have 10,000 guys just like him. Throw em in the ocean
He was never a dad to any of his children. He just used them as a prop, for sympathy.
A monster that knew what he was doing n he wasn't under the influence of drugs so he used self harm as a defense
"NO REGERTS!" -Darrell Brooks 💀
"Also jury nullification"
Thank you Bruce. This trial was crazy, glad it’s over. Not one ounce of remorse for the people he killed and injured, only remorse Darrell has was for himself.
I feel the same way, not one ounce of remorse in him! Looking forward to home getting a ridiculous amount of time and then some!
I want to agree 109% with you, but after going back and rewatching the whole trial (yes, I’m a glutton for punishment) he had noticeable regret, noticeable pain, when it came to the kids, when their injuries or autopsies were testified to. It can be argued the pain was his fear/panic at another thing detailing publicly why he’s in trouble like in his opening, but I don’t think so. I think the kids are a soft spot. Had more parents been in the stand to detail their kids injuries, we would’ve seen his regret more. He is despicable, an easy target for ridicule and definitely deserves everything he gets, but again, I think he regrets harming the kids.
If anyone reads this, I know he’s a shit parent to his own kids, so how can he regret hurting others? If he never had good role models for parents, it makes it hard(er) to be a good parent. You can love a child and not be a good parent. Behaviors are not emotions.
@dormie basne agree 💯💯💯💯‼️‼️‼️‼️🙏🏼 he does hate white people, he is a racist! I hope prison is BRUTAL every single day for him!!!
@@Bozbaby103 if you bought that act of him forcing tears and repeatedly, with as much drama as an elementary school play, that he was having an emotional moment, you are the epitome of gullibility. Don’t worry, you’re not alone; (wink wink nudge nudge)…mommy believes him too (well okay, she doesn’t. But if she doesn’t go along with the monster she created, he might send one of his gang buddies after her).
he felt sorry he got caught thats all
Damn he cut the IMBIBLICAL cord yall, and you dare say he’s a monster???
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I almost mentioned this lol
He says it wasn't intentional, watching the trial he blames everyone else but himself. I believe HE believes it wasn't intentional because that would mean it was HIS actions. He can't deal with that... nothing is ever Darrell's fault.
Also love how he states “I blew my horn so even tho I deliberately drove thru your parade and deliberately hit ppl I did blow my horn so they should have moved” unbelievable!!
This guy really thinks he is another victim? He went exactly where he needed to go. This is sadistic.
I couldn’t believe Brooks claimed no one’s heart was as broken as his. It was appalling!
It's his head that's broken, never his heart ( he ain't got one) 🙁
Right up there with lamenting to the cops interviewing him that his life is basically over, and complaining to the judge that he's fighting for his life. One has to ask - what exactly was so wonderful about his life that it was worth preserving?
It's to expected... murderers tend to get emotional when thinking about how the mess they create affects them. How it affects others leaves them cold.
He asked the jury to do the right thing and guess what….. they did!!
My thoughts exactly!
Yep, life in prison no chance of parole.
They sure did !!!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
He don’t give a toss about his children….. he’s been in prison most of his life anyway !!! 😱😱😱😱
@@rohananya Yes, and thank you for giving them the Round of Applause they deserved.
I discovered your channel 2 weeks ago and have been absolutely binging. You’re a legend.
Also one thing I definitely notice: Michael is getting a LOT of mileage out of those cuff links :)
He didn't testify for himself because he figured he could "testify" in his own way with his closing arguments. He uses his "emotions" (which are fake to begin with) to try to sway the jury. It is probably how he got the women to fall for him and want to "fix him" or "help him" but the rest of us who actually can see him for the monster he is aren't fooled one bit!! He is a complete narcissist!!
I honestly think he was an expecting both an acquittal and an Oscar after this speech.
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Thanks Michael! I’m so glad you’re helping your dad provide all of this content for us, it’s awesome. You should do a cameo some time! I’m so curious to see a lil Bruce haha
Thank you for reacting to this! I had hoped you would. And thanks to Michael for helping the channel so much! But I'm not sure what happened with the technical issues? Edit- You didn't hear one of his best lines! He said he had a clear conscience!!! You really should have reacted to the prosecutor's rebuttal. She did an excellent comeback to his 'feel sorry for me' nonsense.
Ya technical issues messed me up
Yeah, I watched the whole trial and he was so cringe most of the time. Every once in a while he would almost make a good point, but would shoot himself in the foot a moment later.
Yeah audio was double layered until like halfway
@@maxokream6269 and at about 16 mins he was muted so no clue what his comments were.
I hope some of the jurors speak about their experience. I can't wait to hear what they have to say!
I hope the members of the jury keep silent, because one wrong word it's a mistrial. There is a high profile rape case in Australia and a jury member said the wrong thing, instant mistrial. After lots of emotions and waste of taxpayers money another trial is taking place in February 2023. Greetings from the UK 🇬🇧
IMO I think they said everything they needed to in the verdict and how quickly they came to it.
Listening to him, I had the urge to climb through the screen and pull that fire alarm on the wall behind him, just to make him stop. Serving up the pity play is sooooo disgusting. Hard to hear.
To hear a murderer actually say "we should have a long life to live" is so sickening. First time I've ever actually heard a POS say this. I wouldn't say or do anything if this guy got real justice
I think people who have never been to jail do not fully understand how terrible the rest of his life is about to be. Death would be a blessing for him. He is 40 years old. He will have to live the next 30-40 years a line in a cell. No love, no companionship, no birthday celebrations , no special moments. Around a bunch of other convicts who hate child killers. He will be on the bad end of extortion , he will be assaulted and possibly become someone’s boy toy. The guards will mess with him and put him in the hole at every chance they get. It will be a slow painful and miserable death. I wouldn’t be surprised if he killed himself. I hope he doesn’t and lives 50 years of this torture.
Anyone else about fall off their chair when he told the jury his conscience was clear?? 😳🤬
It was a true statement. He doesn't care one bit about those be killed.
I believe that comment sealed his fate. Even if the car malfunctioned and he honked his horn to warn people (not true), any rational person would have some remorse.
The jury saw through all of his BS.
@@Bob-fy8bt I agree. Not to mention his demeanor towards actual victims or parents/spouses/family of victims during questioning. His lack of remorse or any acknowledgement of his own culpability is absolutely appalling
Omg that made me SO MAD
Nope, sociopaths don't have one to cloud up anyway.
I love Bruce’s remarks. “Well if you crash into a crowd of people and you don’t give a flying f”. So true but funny when a lawyer says it.
He was enraged because he was just bonded out of jail from trying to run over his ex just a week or two before this parade and was pissed that he again wasn't able to control her and get her to refuse to testify or change her story, so he was trying to physically attack her again only this time she had two friends with her. The female friend he struck in the face when she tried to defend his ex, but then the male friend yanked both women behind himself and Brooks being half this man's size backed down. The male friend told Brooks to leave that he had already alerted the police of his presence. Brooks made a U-turn crashed thru the barriers blocking the parade route, almost hitting the police standing by the barriers. Brooks honked his horn and ran over the crowed. His vehicle was found to be in perfect working condition and even if it hadn't been Ford said it had no effect on the braking system and that Brooks could have simply stopped the vehicle like the all the others that had malfunctioned.
Your missing the part where he didn't just go straight to the parade route he went to the gas station and stopped. He wasn't accidentally on the parade route because he was afraid of police the street he drove down had police vehicles on it with lights flashing. If he was afraid to get caught he wouldn't have drove towards the police. Before he dropped his GF off they drove around the area for 35 minutes he knew how to drive out of the area without being seen by police.
Plus it’s debatable if he ever used the horn. Just pure control and rage and ego
@@allenwoody8738 no, he was at the gas station prior to meeting with Erika, prior to the parade.
He went straight from White Rock Ave (where they got into the fight) to Main street and took a right onto the parade route. IF he had turned right onto Barstow (going towards the gas station) instead of slamming into the first victim and then the Waukesha West Band, he would have been on his way to that gas station and SO MANY lives would never have been impacted.
I live a mile from this street he murdered people on. Fear moved quickly throughout Waukesha. My son received a Snapchat saying that there was an active shooter driving towards our home shooting people... We feared for what could be coming our way. Of course, it was just rumors, but still!
@@schmatsa9231 i am so sorry he did all this to you and you're community. Seeing the strength of Waukesha and how kind everyone is both heartbreaking and inspiring.
The male friend you are referencing is Nick Kirby. He's a known pedophile and he's even smaller than Darrell Brooks at 5'6, so I'm not sure where you got your facts.
The fact he thinks that the jury would even have a thought of jury nullification was crazy to me.
He was just trying to get a mistrial
@@betochiwas no shit. It was his entire tactic. He knows he is guilty and the only way out is a mistrial.
He didn’t even say sorry once to the victims.
@@justjill2896 Of course he didn't apologize. He killed White people. That's his way of getting reparations.
Fascinating breakdown of this nutty pro se ( Latin: for yourself”) trial. Love the grandma in the basement e-form commercials too. 😂 I can just picture grandma with a “Don’t Self Snitch” hat on. lol. Great job Bruce and Michael!
This whole trial reminds me of a kids in the hall sketch where the jury asks the judge halfway through “can we find him guilty now?”
Aww Kids in the Hall. Thanks for giving me the nostalgic feels ☺️
If I was thinking about that show while watching this idiot in court, I would totally be doing 'Im crushing your head!!!'
And he sounded like Oswald Bates from "In Living Color" defending himself!
Kids in the Hall!! ❤️❤️💯
I love how close and how much pride you seem to have with your son, Michael.
did you see the short with his wife? It's lovely to see both of them show so much pride in their boy. They're all so cute they should have their own show...lol
YES, GREAT FATHER AND SON RELATIONSHIP GOOD JOB ON THE PART OF THE FATHER KEEP IT UP
This dude was literally saying “if you don’t agree with the laws I am being accused of breaking, nullify this trial.” Like…dude, the laws are “killing old women and children with your car,” LOL I’m pretty sure nobody on that jury disagrees with that law.
I watched this whole trial and was about pulling my hair out!! 😂 My lord what a Narcissist!! I knew they'd come back quilty!! Awesome job.
I watched the whole thing too. I think just his being his own lawyer shows how deep his narcissism is. This crime was also an act of narcissism.
Same!!
@@ShoalBear Exactly!!!!💯💯
“No trouble here….see ya later buddy”……no danger of regrets regarding his sentence…..the jury is not looking for any accolades from him….
For him to believe that this jury would give him a break and nullify the law, is a joke.
Even if they acquitted him it STILL wouldn't nullify the law. He would just be acquitted and the state would almost certainly appeal.
@@DemxnTheyThem The state cannot appeal if a jury acquits someone. That's the end of the case. The only time prosecutors can appeal a decision is if a judge tries the case and makes the decision. A "Not Guilty" vote by a jury is the end of the line and the end of the charges. They cannot be appealed and they cannot be refilled.
I'm still shaking my head that DB thought that he could charm the jury into nullifying itself.
The thing about jury nullification is that most people take those two words and think that it's about the jury. Jury nullification is when a jury thinks that the law is wrong, and they nullify the LAW. For example, an entire jury nullifying marijuana possession laws for example. This jury would have to think that intentional homicide isn't a good law to enforce and should be stricken from the record. That's what makes it even funnier, DB thought that they'd say "yeah, intentional homicide IS a stupid restriction on peoples' rights, you're right, go free."
If Brooks was the lawyer for Cruz, then the jury would have definitely given Cruz the death penalty.
Thanks Michael River's and all your content recommendations
He blames the survivors for his sorrows. He doesn't blame himself for any of the payback for what he has done.
I love when Bruce talks about grandmas and meth labs in the basement 😂
That tickles me every time because I’m a grandma of 3!🤣 Thank God I’m not that kind of Grandma!🤦🏾♀️😂
Noooooooo....I found it so hard to watch that I stooped after 16 mins...now I have to go finish watching it even with all the audio issues.
He's seen some shit haha
@@Frandrew_PeeDiddy 😂 phew! Good to know you your grandkids won’t be needing eforms
@@ShoalBear 😂 no worries it’s in the intro when he talks about eforms
Nice job on putting all this great content together Michael Rivers
In the clip of the prosecutor you played at the beginning she was actually asking the judge to just let him argue jury nullification and give an instruction to the jury so that they could get it over with. It shows their confidence in their case.
They need to get this judge a sound board to press a button that says “overruled, objection noted”. Lmao
Another one for 'denied'
I can't believe his tactic of charming and flattering the Judge and jury through the whole trial didn't work...
I can't believe this guy thought that there was even the tiniest shred of a chance that jury would nullify for *him*.
Fairly new to the channel Bruce, and loving it….so thanks. To be honest, I love when you throw out the f-bombs……tell it like it is.
Cheers,
Kev
I love it too. He does it in a classy way. The classiest cusser in Minnesota! 😂
I come for the Stop Snitching song but stay for Bruce saying naughty words like a distinguished gentleman!
So this guy's closing argument is "yall should let me off for the good of the healing process"
What a rollercoaster. His orignial argument is that he was not the one driving, then there was a fault with the car, and then at the end he says he did not intend to kill.
"I panicked so I decided to aim for the people instead of the parked unoccupied cars". Makes sense bro. Makes total sense.
Darrell Brooks videos will never get old.
One of Dorow's biggest accomplishments was getting Brooks to put on a suit and try to act like a lawyer.
I was hoping you would cover this! Thank You Michael… you genius content creator!
I love how Mr Brooks learned how to pronounce tacit agreement by the end of the trial. 🤣
Damn funny right?……Tackit……wtf?
Shows at least he is capable of learning.
Now if he'd just learn how to "ask" a question, not "axe" a question.
He backslid on the pronunciation, and he never understood the meaning or applicability of the term." Tack it" was like nails on a chalkboard
@@kellyc2425 IMHO his pronunciation of ask is fine, his pronunciation is known as African American Vernacular English (AAVE) which has historical context.
Was my audio messed up or was that the video? lol. All the same great clip. I love your content!!!
I was watching this body language and a legal analysts cover this. They pointed out that when Darrel started crying, he saw the jurors weren't showing him the sympathy he was hoping for- they were giving nothing. Hysterical when people like that find themselves in an environment where their usual manipulations tactics don't work. They were used to behaving a certain way but now that behavior was also part of their downfall and dug a deeper hole. Also hysterical that he thought a reddit post could save him... "I've never seen this before" yeah, sure... cry harder
Wonder if he caught a jurist looking at the clock/ their own watch
Spidey and law and lumber 😜 I love when they get together ❤️
And surprised it came to light, very telling!
Come on, give him a break. He couldn't rehearse his closing. He didn't have a mirror in his cell! That's why he wasn't well-prepared. Poor Brooks!
@@shantidavid6062 tho his lovely new boyfriend thought his speech was excellent. 😂🤣🤣
His mother is going around calling him a victim. She is I’m sure, partially responsible for the POS HE IS.
Classic case of what’s in the bitch comes out in the pup 💁🏼♀️
I think he just wanted to live out his childhood dream of being a lawyer after knowing he’d get life no matter what he did.
Shout out from Austria to Michael, the Mastermind behind this awesome channel. You and your dad make a great team. Thanks for the great content!
He really honestly feels sorry for himself. Never even accepted any of blame. I so hate him. If a driver runs into a person, they stop the car and run to help them. He didn’t even try to help and just ran away and now he’s the victim. 😡😡😡
He had the nerve to say , We will never know why God allowed this to happen!!! The judge even addressed this horrific statement in her sentencing.