Waukesha massacre suspect: I'm feeling "dehumanized," you know
Ed Morrissey Dec 02, 2021 6:41 PM ET
Tell us you don’t have effective counsel without telling us you don’t have effective counsel. No lawyer would advise Darrell Brooks to speak with the media after being charged with the murder of six people and wounding of dozens of others in his car attack on a Christmas parade. And even an incompetent first-year law student would likely be smart enough to tell Brooks not to paint himself as the victim in a media interview:
Darrell Brooks Jr. has spent the last 10 days locked up in a Wisconsin jail cell after allegedly mowing through the barricades and into revelers at the Waukesha Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring 62.
Now he feels “dehumanized,” he told Fox News Digital Wednesday in his first remarks to the media, seemingly surprised that he had visitors.
“I just feel like I’m being monster – demonized,” Brooks, 39, said during a brief video visit in Waukesha County Jail – a stone’s throw from where tragedy struck over a week earlier. …
Not even his mother has dropped by, he said. Earlier in the day, she released a statement on behalf of the family decrying Wisconsin’s criminal justice system for failing her son, a longtime felon with a 50-page rap sheet detailing domestic violence, firearms, drugs and other convictions in Wisconsin, according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
How did Fox News Digital even get this interview? Did they just show up to the jail and ask for Brooks? It certainly appears that way, given his “surprised” appearance at their visit.
Brooks’ mother, who bailed him out prior to the murders, issued a statement that claimed her son had a serious mental illness and that the system had “failed” him:
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