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- 0:20Speaker 1: This man just committed as murder and mercilessly ran over
- 0:23Speaker 1: fifty innocent people in a single horrifying rampage. Race was
- 0:40Speaker 1: on to catch the mass killer who committed this horrifying act,
- 0:43Speaker 1: but he managed to flee on foot into a neighborhood.
- 0:47Speaker 1: Little did he know his every movement was being recorded
- 0:50Speaker 1: and what would follow is the largest manhunt this town
- 0:54Speaker 1: has ever seen.
- 0:57Speaker 2: What I can see him.
- 1:05Speaker 1: Daryl Brooks had been on the wrong side of the
- 1:07Speaker 1: law since he was just seventeen years old. He was
- 1:10Speaker 1: clearly a troubled and disturbed individual, racking up charges of
- 1:13Speaker 1: domestic abuse, reckless endangerment, and was even registered as a offender.
- 1:17Speaker 1: But all of this seemed to culminate in twenty twenty one,
- 1:20Speaker 1: on the grand return of the Waukeshaw Christmas Parade following
- 1:23Speaker 1: the pandemic, Daryl Brooks decided to ruin the lives of
- 1:26Speaker 1: countless people as he took his anger out on the
- 1:29Speaker 1: Christmas parade in a blind moment of rage. From the
- 1:32Speaker 1: hour of four pm, neighbors reported a violent argument coming
- 1:36Speaker 1: from Daryl's house. He and his girlfriend weren't on the
- 1:39Speaker 1: best of terms and would occasionally explode into fiery roads
- 1:42Speaker 1: such as this one. Often it'd be about their troubled relationship,
- 1:45Speaker 1: and this one ended in physical violence toward his girlfriend
- 1:48Speaker 1: and one of the most violent and senseless acts Wisconsin
- 1:52Speaker 1: has ever seen. Thirty minutes after the argument, Daryl exited
- 1:56Speaker 1: his house and sped across the familiar roads towards the
- 1:59Speaker 1: center of Wakisha, and at four thirty nine he reached
- 2:02Speaker 1: the main street before plowing through the barricades to the
- 2:05Speaker 1: Christmas parade at forty miles per hour. Five seconds in,
- 2:09Speaker 1: he claimed his first four victims, several members of the
- 2:12Speaker 1: Dancing Granny's performance group. As he continued, he pressed on
- 2:15Speaker 1: the accelerator, swerving to hit as many people as possible
- 2:19Speaker 1: an eight year old a few seconds later. This is
- 2:21Speaker 1: when police and bystanders began to react, trying to clear
- 2:24Speaker 1: the roads, warn others of the attack, and attempt to
- 2:27Speaker 1: stop Daryl from driving. Thankfully, this worked to some extent,
- 2:31Speaker 1: and only one more person was killed. Ten seconds later,
- 2:34Speaker 1: after a total of thirty seconds of the order spree,
- 2:37Speaker 1: Darryl sped out of the parade route, leaving sixty two
- 2:40Speaker 1: people injured behind him. Once he was out of the
- 2:43Speaker 1: other side of the parade, Darrol fled roughly half a
- 2:46Speaker 1: mile from the parade before abandoning his SUV near a
- 2:48Speaker 1: house on Elizabeth Street about six minutes later. From there,
- 2:52Speaker 1: he fled on foot. He even tried knocking on someone's
- 2:54Speaker 1: door and claiming he was homeless, asking them to call
- 2:57Speaker 1: an uber for him. He was given a jacket and
- 2:59Speaker 1: a sandwich before fleeing when he noticed police searching the area.
- 3:03Speaker 1: Not long after, he was captured by a security camera,
- 3:06Speaker 1: which helped the cops approximate his route and track him down.
- 3:10Speaker 1: It's hard to see, but if you look closely at
- 3:12Speaker 1: the top of this road, you can spot Daryl trying
- 3:14Speaker 1: to inconspicuously navigate his way around Walkeshat to escape the police.
- 3:18Speaker 1: But given the scale of this event, the cops were
- 3:21Speaker 1: dedicating all their resources to finding him. Cops set up
- 3:24Speaker 1: a perimeter around where his suv was found abandoned. Nobody
- 3:28Speaker 1: was allowed in or out, meaning that if Daryl was here,
- 3:31Speaker 1: they'd find him soon. Eventually, a resident spotted him hiding
- 3:35Speaker 1: out in the woods and the cops were able to
- 3:37Speaker 1: narrow their search efforts considerably. After six hours into the manhunt,
- 3:41Speaker 1: the cops located him at a house in a residential
- 3:44Speaker 1: area and moved in to apprehend him. This is the
- 3:47Speaker 1: bodycam footage of that intense arrest.
- 4:01Speaker 3: The ground, You guys so much?
- 4:12Speaker 4: Your name?
- 4:24Speaker 5: Oh okay, If everything turns out to be on the happener,
- 4:30Speaker 5: then you'll be on your way all right.
- 4:38Speaker 1: With Darryl in custody, the officers were able to begin
- 4:41Speaker 1: questioning him, but quickly they were forced to stop due
- 4:44Speaker 1: to the fact that the FBI wanted to take over
- 4:46Speaker 1: this case. I've asked a former detective to analyze this
- 4:49Speaker 1: interview and he was able to give a deep dive
- 4:52Speaker 1: into every influential moment. Prior to the investigation. The detectives
- 4:56Speaker 1: involved already knew just about everything. They knew he was driving,
- 4:59Speaker 1: that he did own the car, and that he had
- 5:01Speaker 1: found the car key inside his pocket. What makes this
- 5:04Speaker 1: interrogation so interesting, though, is that Daryl doesn't even know
- 5:07Speaker 1: what he's being brought in. Four police never told him
- 5:10Speaker 1: he was suspected of the parade killings. From the cops perspective,
- 5:14Speaker 1: this almost five hour long interrogation wasn't really to figure
- 5:17Speaker 1: out if he did it, more so to see how
- 5:20Speaker 1: Brooks would react. They wanted to see how much he'd lie,
- 5:23Speaker 1: and if he'd felt any remorse for what he'd done.
- 5:29Speaker 6: There you go, all right, I only been out of work.
- 5:43Speaker 7: A few months.
- 5:44Speaker 3: Anything to do with the pandemic, that yeah a lot.
- 5:48Speaker 8: Yeah it made me.
- 5:52Speaker 6: I got still blind that though.
- 5:53Speaker 8: So yeah, like what, I'm probably gonna go back I
- 5:57Speaker 8: was working at a sheet metal place, so I'm probably
- 5:59Speaker 8: gonna go back there.
- 6:00Speaker 6: And do you stay at your is it your mind?
- 6:02Speaker 6: You've talked about your mom? Is it her address you.
- 6:04Speaker 9: Stay at now?
- 6:05Speaker 3: Is she owns the house, she owns the owns the house.
- 6:08Speaker 3: She doesn't stay there anymore, but she owns the house. Okay,
- 6:12Speaker 3: she she has her own house. She h.
- 6:14Speaker 6: I think we put your mom as emergency.
- 6:16Speaker 1: The detectives have already found the first indication that Brooks
- 6:19Speaker 1: is willing to lie. If you haven't noticed, the extreme
- 6:22Speaker 1: shoulder pain Brooks complained about earlier has miraculously vanished. Just
- 6:26Speaker 1: a few minutes into the interview. He was able to
- 6:29Speaker 1: move his arm effortlessly as if the pain never existed,
- 6:32Speaker 1: something that would later be used as evidence in Courge,
- 6:35Speaker 1: and his tendency to lie will become even more obvious
- 6:38Speaker 1: as the detectives continue to divert his attention.
- 6:41Speaker 3: When you ask Jephanie's any time it was still dangerous. Okay,
- 6:46Speaker 3: well there's still a lot of people out. It were
- 6:48Speaker 3: steel people out. Oh, couldn't steel people out.
- 6:51Speaker 6: Not a lot in that area.
- 6:52Speaker 3: But he was a lot of people out, and he was,
- 6:54Speaker 3: like I said, it was people. It was older couples
- 6:56Speaker 3: walking down the street. Was the younger people walking down
- 6:58Speaker 3: the street?
- 6:59Speaker 6: People are in.
- 6:59Speaker 3: After something was going on. I don't know, but it
- 7:03Speaker 3: kind of seemed like it was a lot like it
- 7:05Speaker 3: was something going on to where it was violent. How
- 7:08Speaker 3: along was it between leaving Stephanie's and those.
- 7:12Speaker 6: Cops yelling at.
- 7:13Speaker 3: You at the door that guy's house?
- 7:15Speaker 6: Was it dark with a yell lady?
- 7:16Speaker 3: Yeah, by the time they came and it was dark. Okay,
- 7:18Speaker 3: But we had been sitting out here. We had been
- 7:20Speaker 3: sitting out there for a minute meet me and a
- 7:22Speaker 3: guy to find how long twenty thirty minutes?
- 7:26Speaker 6: Maybe we were.
- 7:27Speaker 3: Sitting right there just like this. You're sitting on the porch.
- 7:30Speaker 3: Well called me an ober.
- 7:32Speaker 6: I caught the ober.
- 7:33Speaker 3: I said, look, man, I let him know. I said, listen,
- 7:35Speaker 3: I ain't trying to rob you or don't like that
- 7:37Speaker 3: because when I knocked on the door, he Kondom was like, whoa.
- 7:39Speaker 3: I'm like, look, I've got no weapons. I'm not trying
- 7:42Speaker 3: to break in your house.
- 7:42Speaker 6: I'm not trying to rob you.
- 7:44Speaker 1: Darryl has clearly thought a lot about this alibi, since
- 7:46Speaker 1: he's managing to deliver a lot of very specific details. However,
- 7:51Speaker 1: the officers already have mountains of evidence against Darryl and
- 7:54Speaker 1: don't believe a word he's saying. As the interrogation continues,
- 7:58Speaker 1: Daryl continues to lie until all the cops have had enough.
- 8:01Speaker 6: Let me see this, Durell.
- 8:02Speaker 9: So you weren't out, you weren't on wakeshot Saturday Sunday.
- 8:06Speaker 3: Yes, right, you're a part of the investigation. There's a
- 8:09Speaker 3: lot of parts, right, and.
- 8:10Speaker 9: The investigations investigation we try.
- 8:13Speaker 6: Well, it's domestic of the East thing that's coming upright.
- 8:16Speaker 6: You talked about being a you know, a religious man.
- 8:19Speaker 7: I can do that.
- 8:19Speaker 6: God, I can do better, and we all could.
- 8:22Speaker 3: I'm not we all why That's why yesterday is a mistake.
- 8:26Speaker 3: I should just freaking watch the game. You just yeah,
- 8:29Speaker 3: that's the thing.
- 8:30Speaker 9: What do they teach us in Christianity, Durell, that they
- 8:33Speaker 9: teach us that we're broken, right, we're sinners. You're a father,
- 8:37Speaker 9: you got three children eighteen to eighteen, fourteen and seven, Yes, sir,
- 8:41Speaker 9: all right, you got a mama that raised you well
- 8:44Speaker 9: and a god you believe in, absolutely.
- 8:47Speaker 6: Right, and all that are. Here's the thing they all
- 8:50Speaker 6: want is.
- 8:51Speaker 9: To tell that you're telling the absolute well truth and
- 8:54Speaker 9: nothing about the truth, right absolutely. I just have concerns
- 8:58Speaker 9: I by fact check that Durell not telling me the truth.
- 9:01Speaker 9: You don't have a car, so Marcus had to bring
- 9:03Speaker 9: you out. You don't own a car. Your mom doesn't
- 9:06Speaker 9: own a car, right, So why did we find you
- 9:08Speaker 9: with a car key.
- 9:08Speaker 7: In your pocket?
- 9:10Speaker 3: It was his name of my pocket. I don't even
- 9:12Speaker 3: though they say that was laying on the ground.
- 9:14Speaker 1: The car key in Daryl's pocket is a key part
- 9:17Speaker 1: of this case, as it shows that Daryl does in
- 9:19Speaker 1: fact drive despite his statements to the officers. Knowing that
- 9:22Speaker 1: he's quickly being backed into a corner, Daryl tries even
- 9:25Speaker 1: harder to convince the officers of his innocence. But these
- 9:28Speaker 1: officers had done their research, and we're about to take
- 9:31Speaker 1: a different angle that would hopefully guilt him into confession.
- 9:35Speaker 6: It's yours, it's your car.
- 9:36Speaker 9: Key. I'm trying to be as open and honest with
- 9:38Speaker 9: you as I can be, and I'm.
- 9:40Speaker 6: Not calling you a terrible man. I'm not saying you
- 9:43Speaker 6: were out.
- 9:43Speaker 9: Yesterday hunt and just let me finish. But you did
- 9:46Speaker 9: not walk to that house. You did not walk to
- 9:49Speaker 9: that house. You did not come here in a tank. Here,
- 9:53Speaker 9: you've got a key in your pocket, your car, your
- 9:58Speaker 9: mom's name. For the love of God, Marcus, for yourself,
- 10:00Speaker 9: for your family. You know what happened yesterday?
- 10:03Speaker 6: For the people?
- 10:04Speaker 3: Tell me what happened with the car?
- 10:07Speaker 7: What am I being with.
- 10:08Speaker 6: Your mom's car? You're driving? Goofy? People call you in
- 10:12Speaker 6: you drove out here in your mom's car, the red car.
- 10:14Speaker 9: You're driving a little silly, probably because your pet. You
- 10:17Speaker 9: met up with Eric in the car at the park.
- 10:20Speaker 3: She got in get taught and what you're telling me,
- 10:24Speaker 3: He was pretty consistent that it was nothing physical. I
- 10:26Speaker 3: didn't put my hands on her, but she met her
- 10:28Speaker 3: in the car. And what's going on?
- 10:31Speaker 9: Man? Asking you a question?
- 10:32Speaker 6: Just being you are out there on Some people said
- 10:35Speaker 6: you were driving kind of greed.
- 10:37Speaker 1: Daryl is heavily on the back foot now and has
- 10:39Speaker 1: very little room to wiggle out of this one. Eventually,
- 10:42Speaker 1: the pressure from the detectives would cause him to cave
- 10:45Speaker 1: and admit that he was driving at the time, now
- 10:48Speaker 1: choosing to change tactics and try to garner sympathy from
- 10:51Speaker 1: the detectives, deflecting blame onto his girlfriend and an apparent
- 10:54Speaker 1: alcohol problem.
- 10:55Speaker 3: Erica, She's a sweetheart until she gets the alcohol. D
- 11:00Speaker 3: you are type of jazz?
- 11:03Speaker 10: Is it?
- 11:04Speaker 3: I have somebody touch you, and I'm gonna keep my
- 11:08Speaker 3: daughter away.
- 11:09Speaker 6: From you, and even my mom doesn't.
- 11:12Speaker 3: Even like her around when she's drenching.
- 11:14Speaker 9: I've never been with anyone as bad as what you're
- 11:16Speaker 9: saying right there, but I think he can attest to.
- 11:19Speaker 11: It with probably.
- 11:23Speaker 6: You know, so, Drel, what were you thinking when he
- 11:26Speaker 6: was driven?
- 11:26Speaker 7: Driven to this period?
- 11:27Speaker 3: When am I facing?
- 11:28Speaker 6: I don't have no problem talking with you guys. People.
- 11:30Speaker 6: You got people injured that had to go to the hospital.
- 11:33Speaker 3: So they're saying I injured somebody, or you're saying I
- 11:36Speaker 3: injured somebody.
- 11:37Speaker 7: So I'm looking at what.
- 11:38Speaker 3: Reckless endangerment The very least, Yeah, the very least people
- 11:42Speaker 3: got hurt.
- 11:42Speaker 6: That's requisentator.
- 11:43Speaker 3: I don't know exactly why they're gonna classify it.
- 11:45Speaker 9: Yeah, people had legs broken, dangermous where you may have
- 11:48Speaker 9: hurt somebody later actions You did.
- 11:50Speaker 6: Hurt somebody later action You wanted information from us?
- 11:53Speaker 11: For sure?
- 11:53Speaker 3: I want you to watch and see what's in it.
- 11:55Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a good point. It's information charing.
- 11:56Speaker 7: Why do you want me to see that car?
- 11:59Speaker 6: Why it's important?
- 12:01Speaker 1: Why is it important?
- 12:02Speaker 3: Easy to admit what is wan away?
- 12:06Speaker 9: Everybody did.
- 12:09Speaker 6: Everybody knows what's going on. There's a children right there,
- 12:15Speaker 6: there was the kids. You are look at you gonna
- 12:17Speaker 6: look at it. Hurt you hurt emotionally, so hopefully.
- 12:29Speaker 5: Don't do that.
- 12:31Speaker 1: The most shocking part about this interview is this moment
- 12:35Speaker 1: when Daryl discovered what had actually happened to the victims.
- 12:38Speaker 1: Daryl didn't once ask about the victims or if anyone
- 12:41Speaker 1: had lost their lives, very likely because he had no
- 12:44Speaker 1: remorse to give and was concerned only for himself. At
- 12:48Speaker 1: this point, the detectives have successfully achieved the main objectives
- 12:51Speaker 1: of the interview to get Daryl to admit he was
- 12:54Speaker 1: driving the car and to see if he had any remorse.
- 12:56Speaker 1: The interrogation was exceptionally long to corroborate the strong evidence
- 13:00Speaker 1: they already had, and to acquire footage that would persuade
- 13:03Speaker 1: a jury that Daryl had no remorse, which is why
- 13:06Speaker 1: they let him lie and portray himself as a selfish
- 13:09Speaker 1: evil man as much as possible, And in that trial,
- 13:12Speaker 1: Daryl would continue to paint himself in that exact light
- 13:15Speaker 1: as he decided to represent himself. This would result in
- 13:18Speaker 1: one of the most ridiculous and infamous court cases ever
- 13:22Speaker 1: on the Internet, with Daryl screaming, shouting, and even threatening
- 13:25Speaker 1: his way through the trial, constantly making legal mistake after
- 13:29Speaker 1: legal mistake, ruining his chances of getting away with a
- 13:32Speaker 1: low sentence. So to start with, Detective J. Carpenter comes
- 13:36Speaker 1: to the stand it has a lot of information to
- 13:38Speaker 1: share about their little chat in the interrogation room.
- 13:41Speaker 5: You interview the defendant Daryl Brooks on November twenty one,
- 13:46Speaker 5: twenty twenty one, at a prossly eleven o'clock PM, to recall.
- 13:49Speaker 8: That being caught in any for the record objection is overruled.
- 13:56Speaker 7: Yes, not relevant, it is real.
- 14:00Speaker 5: What observations did you make during this clip about the use.
- 14:04Speaker 2: Of his writer Both his arms were to come out
- 14:06Speaker 2: like this and move to me what a person would
- 14:09Speaker 2: do when they're normally conversing. It would seem unusual to
- 14:12Speaker 2: make those movements if he was in fact in as
- 14:15Speaker 2: much pain as he was claiming to us he was in.
- 14:18Speaker 5: Last night, we asked for States Exhibit eighty one to
- 14:22Speaker 5: be admitted to evidence, which is the defendant statement provided
- 14:25Speaker 5: two a Carpenter Detective Stern on November twenty first of
- 14:29Speaker 5: last year, objection.
- 14:30Speaker 7: Out in provide any statement on the twenty first.
- 14:32Speaker 10: Dury will disregard the statement by mister Brooks. He is
- 14:35Speaker 10: not testifying.
- 14:36Speaker 7: Therefore his statements.
- 14:37Speaker 5: Are not evidence.
- 14:39Speaker 7: My objection should be noted for the record.
- 14:41Speaker 1: May be hearing that Daryl repeatedly keeps calling objections. His
- 14:45Speaker 1: legal experience is clearly based entirely on movies and TV,
- 14:49Speaker 1: but unfortunately for him, in order for an objection to
- 14:51Speaker 1: be sustained by a judge, the objection needs to have
- 14:54Speaker 1: a legitimate reason. Darryl is unable to object for a
- 14:58Speaker 1: legitimate reason, and as such almost all of his objections
- 15:01Speaker 1: are overruled by the judge, meaning the prosecution is able
- 15:05Speaker 1: to continue.
- 15:05Speaker 6: I believe that.
- 15:06Speaker 4: These photographs are designed to make a suggestion to the
- 15:09Speaker 4: jury that Erica Patterson is a bad mom.
- 15:12Speaker 6: I think that that's what the defendant is trying to do.
- 15:14Speaker 4: If we go down that road, we would be forced
- 15:16Speaker 4: to counter that claim by pointing out that not only
- 15:18Speaker 4: does the defendant not live with the child in question,
- 15:20Speaker 4: he doesn't live with any of the other children that
- 15:22Speaker 4: he has. He impregnated Erica Patterson when she was a
- 15:26Speaker 4: minor in Nevada.
- 15:28Speaker 11: For doing so, he was convicted of statutory sexual seduction,
- 15:32Speaker 11: pled guilty in March of two thousand and seven to
- 15:34Speaker 11: that fellony offense and is a sex offender on the
- 15:37Speaker 11: registry as a result. So if there's any causation that
- 15:40Speaker 11: would lead to Erica Patterson being a bad mom, mister
- 15:43Speaker 11: Brooks has a direct role in that causation.
- 15:45Speaker 12: And that's further thore today. I'm not because that's a
- 15:48Speaker 12: lie since he want to make a record and not
- 15:53Speaker 12: be accurate. So let's be accurate all on a record.
- 15:55Speaker 12: Saince she think he knows so much.
- 16:01Speaker 5: She was interrupting, and that's what he is.
- 16:04Speaker 10: Over the top, mister Brooks, I'm ordering you to sit
- 16:09Speaker 10: down and to let the This.
- 16:15Speaker 1: Is how a huge amount of this trial played out.
- 16:17Speaker 1: The prosecution would make a point and Daryl would get
- 16:20Speaker 1: extremely animated and try to deny it with nothing but
- 16:23Speaker 1: anger and false truths. In this example, the prosecution mentioned
- 16:26Speaker 1: Daryl's offender registry, to which he responded by saying that
- 16:30Speaker 1: she told him she was eighteen, as if that excused
- 16:32Speaker 1: him of all wrongdoing. But the most shocking and unprecedented
- 16:36Speaker 1: moment of the trial was when the judge had to
- 16:38Speaker 1: stop all court proceedings. But she felt genuinely scared of him.
- 16:42Speaker 13: So long as the jury's out, we should probably discuss that.
- 16:45Speaker 7: So that had to be that had to be said.
- 16:48Speaker 10: That's not how it was said.
- 16:52Speaker 6: To run the record back, mister Brooks.
- 16:56Speaker 7: Work and I heard it.
- 16:57Speaker 5: This is to benefit you, So there was understand.
- 17:02Speaker 7: As a prior record you, honor.
- 17:04Speaker 13: When I leave the table, I'm away from the courtroom
- 17:06Speaker 13: and I have to elevate my voice a wedge record
- 17:10Speaker 13: able stop talking.
- 17:15Speaker 3: And I said to Vague and turn for bag docum.
- 17:18Speaker 10: One more interruption and you're going to be removed to
- 17:20Speaker 10: the next.
- 17:20Speaker 7: Corpus what you want to do anyway?
- 17:23Speaker 13: I believe he has seven prior criminal convictions and O
- 17:27Speaker 13: W I fourth from two thousand and three criminal trespassed
- 17:31Speaker 13: dwelling from two thousand.
- 17:33Speaker 10: I need to take a break. This man right now
- 17:35Speaker 10: is having a stare down with me. It's very disrespectful.
- 17:38Speaker 10: He pounded his fist frankly.
- 17:40Speaker 1: The judge put up with an awful lot in this
- 17:42Speaker 1: trial and gave Daryl a huge amount of leeway in
- 17:45Speaker 1: order to keep everything as fair as possible. But even
- 17:47Speaker 1: with all that in mind, he still managed to completely
- 17:50Speaker 1: botch his legal defense, even when he was acting Coleman polite.
- 17:54Speaker 1: Take this for example, where he argued he wasn't being
- 17:56Speaker 1: given a fair trial because he wasn't allowed to confront
- 17:59Speaker 1: the state of Wisconsin itself.
- 18:01Speaker 7: Not if I'm not allowed to face my accuser, 'ren it?
- 18:04Speaker 8: My accuser in this matter would be the state of
- 18:07Speaker 8: Wisconsin with arda.
- 18:09Speaker 10: Actually, your sex Amendment rights in that regard have been
- 18:11Speaker 10: complied with.
- 18:12Speaker 8: I'm christen a written judicial fact finding, a fact and
- 18:17Speaker 8: conclusion of law on this issue. For the grounds that
- 18:21Speaker 8: I just stated, I'm not being awarded the chance to
- 18:24Speaker 8: face my accuser, which I should be awarded that bi technicality.
- 18:29Speaker 1: Daryl is correct. The sixth Amendment does grant him the
- 18:32Speaker 1: right to confront the person or persons accusing him of
- 18:34Speaker 1: the crime in this case, that being the state of Wisconsin.
- 18:37Speaker 1: But what he's asking is a physical impossibility. The state
- 18:40Speaker 1: of Wisconsin is not a person nor a witness in
- 18:43Speaker 1: this case. He is being allowed to confront any witness
- 18:46Speaker 1: of the crime that's involved in the trial, so his
- 18:48Speaker 1: rights are all being met. He's simply grasping its straws
- 18:52Speaker 1: by seemingly trying to challenge the US judicial system as
- 18:55Speaker 1: a whole. And Daryl's misunderstanding of the legal system was
- 18:58Speaker 1: made even more clear to his closing arguments. If you
- 19:01Speaker 1: had chosen a lawyer to defend him, maybe he could
- 19:03Speaker 1: have gotten away with slightly less charges or a lighter sentence,
- 19:07Speaker 1: But instead he gave this travesty of a statement.
- 19:11Speaker 7: Good after Now, it's been a long day.
- 19:14Speaker 8: First off, I'd just like to start by letting you
- 19:16Speaker 8: guys know that Salada information that you guys should be
- 19:21Speaker 8: pretty too. I believe you and you alone have the
- 19:24Speaker 8: power you and you alone decide what is true and
- 19:27Speaker 8: what isn't true. You should be informed that you have
- 19:30Speaker 8: the power to nullify any law that you don't agree with.
- 19:33Speaker 1: Darryl is not entirely correct here. Yes, the jury can
- 19:37Speaker 1: nullify laws. However, this is only done when the law
- 19:40Speaker 1: that has been broken is extremely strange and the person
- 19:43Speaker 1: is one hundred percent guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. For example,
- 19:47Speaker 1: Alaska has a law that states it's illegal to whisper
- 19:50Speaker 1: in someone's ear while they're moose hunting. If a case
- 19:53Speaker 1: like this found its way to trial, the jury could
- 19:55Speaker 1: nullify that law. Darryl Brooks gave his closing statement for
- 19:59Speaker 1: fifty minutes with not saying very much other than attempts
- 20:01Speaker 1: to debunk the evidence and to quit himself of his crimes. However,
- 20:05Speaker 1: there was one point that stuck out from his closing
- 20:08Speaker 1: statements that shows just how evil he truly is.
- 20:12Speaker 8: It's hard to keep everything together emotionally, and honestly, I
- 20:17Speaker 8: don't believe that I have any more tears left.
- 20:21Speaker 7: It's been a hard year for the families. Mostly.
- 20:25Speaker 8: That opens the door to talk about a forgiveness for
- 20:27Speaker 8: a little bit, where every healing process there comes a
- 20:31Speaker 8: forgiven process.
- 20:32Speaker 7: It's not an easy dan for anyone.
- 20:35Speaker 1: Daryl is trying to deflect the jury onto it being
- 20:37Speaker 1: a tough year for victims as well as anyone who
- 20:40Speaker 1: was present at the parade, But in reality, it was
- 20:43Speaker 1: his crime that made this year the toughest for the victims.
- 20:47Speaker 1: The jury deliberated for less than a day and they
- 20:49Speaker 1: came back with a verdict that he was guilty on
- 20:52Speaker 1: all seventy six counts. Daryl was ready to be sentenced,
- 20:55Speaker 1: but not before the judge spoke to him directly.
- 20:58Speaker 10: First, Brooks, no one is safe from you. This community
- 21:03Speaker 10: can only be safe if you are behind bars for
- 21:07Speaker 10: the rest of your life. The community is not safe
- 21:11Speaker 10: from your violent and criminal conduct unless you are in custody.
- 21:15Speaker 10: You left a path of destruction, chaos, death, injury, confusion,
- 21:22Speaker 10: and panicked as you drove seven or so blocks through
- 21:25Speaker 10: the Christmas parade, never once stopping or seemingly caring about
- 21:30Speaker 10: the wake of carnage that you left. Four of those
- 21:33Speaker 10: blocks were turned into a scene that, frankly, is no
- 21:37Speaker 10: different than a war zone. This court is imposing a
- 21:40Speaker 10: life sentence without the possibility or eligibility for extended supervision.
- 21:45Speaker 10: One life sentence for Virginia Sorensen, one life sentence for
- 21:50Speaker 10: Leanna Owen, one life sentence for Tamara Durand, one life
- 21:54Speaker 10: sentence for Jane Kulick, one life sentence for Bill Hospital
- 21:57Speaker 10: and one life sentence for Jackson's.
- 22:03Speaker 1: Daryl Brooks was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences in
- 22:07Speaker 1: prison without the possibility of parole, meaning that Daryl Brooks
- 22:10Speaker 1: will spend the rest of his life behind bars.