Driver plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.
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@mik said in Car plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:
Link to videoAfter he ditched the car he apparently knocked on a stranger’s door with some sob story.
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@mik said in Car plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:
Good enough for me. A terrorist designation implies there was some goal involved.
Well, presumably we don't really know that at this point. I would say that if this was in any way connected with the non-guilty verdict of Kyle Rittenhouse then it should be described as terrorism.
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@mik said in Car plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:
Good enough for me. A terrorist designation implies there was some goal involved.
Well, presumably we don't really know that at this point. I would say that if this was in any way connected with the non-guilty verdict of Kyle Rittenhouse then it should be described as terrorism.
Yes, if determined so, that would be appropriate.
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Those people saying the killings are karma for Rittenhouse, and that the people of WI are responsible for the deaths sound oddly similar to the kind of clueless twats who used to make excuses for Provisional IRA atrocities back in the 70's and 80's.
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Just out of curiosity, is it pronounced woah-keesha? Or wow-keesha? Or some other way.
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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@jon-nyc said in Car plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:
Just out of curiosity, is it pronounced woah-keesha? Or wow-keesha? Or some other way.
WALK-eshaw
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
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Don't you DARE call it what it really was:
And this is CNN's homepage about 5 minutes ago.
If you look closely, you might see a story about it.
It's there, at the bottom, below stories about Keanu Reeves, movies to watch, a WWE wrestler getting attacked, and Native American chefs.
It deals with the driver's lack of emotion.
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G George K referenced this topic on
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VDH: A Tale of Two Cities: Kenosha vs. Waukesha
An amoral media and Left, so far, have kept an inconvenient Waukesha “car crash” out of the mainstream news—reversing their wild sensational obsessions with Kenosha. After all, in their unhinged racialized worldview, the demonization of a 17-year-old white male, who shot three other white males, still could be squeezed for racial juice, given the larger contextual landscape of a riot over a police wounding of an African-American male.
The shooting of Jacob Blake that set off the Kenosha riots was later determined to be justified, given the armed suspect was heading toward his car, after fighting with police, who were called to the residence to protect a woman who had a restraining order against the career violent felon.
In sum, Rittenhouse had no criminal record; all four of his assailants had lengthy arrest records. Three of them were ex-felons. He had no record of the racial hatred of which he was accused.
In contrast, Brooks was an abject violent racist whom the media sought to shield. And he was a career felon, who both long ago and quite recently should have been kept behind bars so that he would not murder innocents.
How a Wisconsin ex-felon received a $1,000 bail bond and freedom to mow down innocents, after trying to run down two with his car, while another juvenile without an arrest record, with good grounds to claim self-defense, was required to post a $2 million bond (and so stayed incarcerated pending charges without running water in his cell) is a commentary on the abject implosion of the American justice system.
Rittenhouse should have never been charged; Brooks should not have been out of jail. The effort to make the former a beneficiary of white supremacy and the latter a victim of it required a level of amoral media deceit that finally was unsustainable even in this bankrupt age.
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@jon-nyc said in Car plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:
Just out of curiosity, is it pronounced woah-keesha? Or wow-keesha? Or some other way.
WALK-eshaw
@george-k said in Driver plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:
@jon-nyc said in Car plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:
Just out of curiosity, is it pronounced woah-keesha? Or wow-keesha? Or some other way.
WALK-eshaw
This is closer to how I am accustomed to hearing it.WOK uh shaw is another way to describe it.
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WÔK-ə-ʃɑː
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I’ll wait until we see it elsewhere. Literally everything I’ve seen from him turned out to be a lie. At any rate he doesn’t deserve the benefits of any doubts.
@jon-nyc said in Driver plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:
I’ll wait until we see it elsewhere.
Elsewhere:
https://www.scribd.com/document/543560548/Brooks-pretrial-assessment
Darrell Brooks Jr. had been assessed as a fairly high risk for release from jail two weeks before he allegedly drove through Waukesha's Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring dozens more.
Brooks' release on $1,000 bail has people outraged over the subsequent Nov. 21 tragedy, critiquing an often overlooked and misunderstood part of the criminal justice system — the pretrial risk assessment.
Brooks was arrested in Milwaukee County after police say he punched and ran over a former girlfriend on Nov. 2.
Before his initial appearance on Nov. 5, he was evaluated by JusticePoint, the agency that contracts with Milwaukee County to provide pretrial screening and monitoring services. It conducted a Pretrial Risk Assessment Report on Brooks on Nov. 5.
Such reports are also called Public Safety Assessments and commonly referred to as PSAs. Milwaukee County began implementing them a decade ago.
A tool for the assessment finds where a defendant's likelihood of failing to reappear in court, on the y axis, intersects with his likelihood of new criminal activityon the x axis.
Factors cited for his score included that he was charged with a violent crime while he was out on bail for a prior charge and that he had been convicted and incarcerated for earlier violent crimes.
In his favor was that he had no violations for failure to appear in other cases during the past two years.
The report also noted Brooks "is diagnosed with a serious and persistent illness in which he is not receiving treatment for."
Police reports from the Nov. 2 incident indicate Brooks suffers from mental health issues for which he is supposed to be taking medication. The exact diagnosis was redacted in the reports, obtained last week by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The PSA also flagged Brooks as a risk to commit a new violent crime. That factor is listed as either a yes or a no, and is not part of the other color scale matrix.
The grid goes from light green (low risk) in one corner, to red (higher risk) in the other corner.
Brooks landed in the red zone, yet his bail was set at $1,000, and he was ordered to have the highest level of supervision by JusticePoint if he made bail.
Technically, that followed the PSA recommendation — Level 5 supervision, and cash bail.
