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[–]ShalomEveryone 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday demanding answers regarding how the Department of Justice plans to respond to the recent mass murder in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

What happened is a city matter until there is evidence that the driver was acting on behalf of or as part of a group. So far it's just one asshole criminal who was evading authorities before he ran people over trying to make his getaway. In a video we can clearly see the driver swerve out of the way of an individual before driving through a barricade. If this guy was trying to kill as many people as possible he would not have swerved out of the way of someone standing in the path of his SUV.

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[–]wristaction[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

None of what you typed out there is relevant to the establishment of the fact that Darrell E. Brooks acted with intent as a racially motivated domestic violent extremist.

Every part of your representation of the driver's behavior is refuted both in the WPD's public statements and the police radio feed of the incident. Brooks was not being pursued by police as he drove through the sawhorses.

There exists no publicly known evidence that there was a prior incident for Brooks to flee from. Rather, the WPD's radio chatter indicates that two individuals approached a police unit nearby the parade route at a point which the tail of the parade had already passed to report a "knife fight" some five or six blocks from the parade route. Units were dispatched to the location. Responding units indicated "no sign" of an altercation. The reporting individuals then offered an adjusted location for the responding units to investigate. Responding units again reported no sign of the reported "knife fight". Shortly afterward, Brooks drove through the sawhorses and onto the parade route.

Brooks swerved around vehicles and solitary pedestrians before reaching a block of parade participants, a group of young girls called "the Dancing Grannies". Brooks then accelerated and drove through the center of the parade route to its end. These facts are recorded in affidavits to the court submitted by the DA. Brooks is charged with explicitly intentional acts.

The federal agency definition of a Domestic Violent Extremist does not require a defendant be explicitly enrolled with a group. Rather, the DOJ (and lower jurisdictions) will refer to classes which are defined in their own rubric. Social media content and network activity is sufficient to establish membership of one of these classes.