Black male with a 22-year criminal record uses a car to mow down 30 in Waukesha, killing 8. Leftists start making excuses

Yesterday (November 21, 2021) just after 4 pm, residents of the quiet Wisconsin town of Waukesha were enjoying their annual Christmas parade.  High school marching bands and dance groups, teenagers.

Suddenly, without warning, a man with a criminal record spanning 22 years drove through the marchers at high speed from behind, hitting scores, killing 8.  

The killer drove away, but a short time later the damaged vehicle was found, with the driver's ID inside.  The alleged driver--a cold-blooded killer--is Darrell Brooks, a 38-year-old black male with a long criminal record.

In addition to past convictions over 22 years, Brooks's rap sheet includes multiple open cases.  His criminal record includes numerous weapons charges, battery and assault charges, all kinds of drug charges from meth to cocaine, vehicle theft, receiving stolen property, obstructing officers, domestic abuse, recklessly endangering safety, strangulation, and suffocation...the list goes on and on.

Just two days before the deadly attack, Brooks had been freed on $1,000 bail from an earlier felony assault charge.

Again and again, Darrell Brooks has been caught, processed... and released. Despite a long record showing that he's a career criminal and an ongoing threat to the community, charges have repeatedly been dropped or pleaded down, sentences were reduced to time served (in one case just 19 days), and he was always given work release, probation and bail, despite a record of continuing to commit crimes whenever he was released.

He was free to kill people in Waukesha because incompetent or corrupt or "woke" state's attorneys and district attorneys refuse to prosecute most crimes, refuse to ask judges for stiff sentences when they do prosecute, plea-bargain cases down, down, down until they get an easy conviction, even if that easy conviction provides such a small penalty that it barely takes the criminal off the street at all.

Simply put, "woke" Leftist officials don't want to put criminals behind bars, and use any excuse to release convicted criminals long before they've served their sentences.  In recent years most Americans have watched in horror as governor after governor has flung open the prison gates for mass releases, for reasons as lunatic as fear of COVID contagion or budget pressures.

We are told that it is hard to obtain a conviction, even when criminals are plainly guilty.  Sometimes that is true.  But even so, there are tens of thousands of violent criminals whom our system has managed to catch, prosecute and convict.  There is no reason why those crooks should be out on the street before they've served virtually all their sentence.

There is only one reason why crime is so high in America today, only one reason why so many known criminals are on the streets, free to rob, rape, brutalize, and murder.  It's that leftist politicians have sided with criminals time and again, against the law-abiding citizenry.


H/T John F. Di Leo at American Thinker