The War on American Communities – by Pedro L. Gonzalez
According to the police, Brooks intentionally drove his vehicle into the crowd. And although they claimed he might have been leaving the scene of a domestic disturbance, police also confirmed that they were not pursuing him at the time that he could have but didn t turn down a side street that would have taken him around the event and smashed through parade barriers intended to block traffic. High-angle camera footage shows Brooks speed into the frame after penetrating the perimeter, slightly decelerating, then carefully steering his SUV into pedestrians. His social media posts present a range of extremist views, from encouraging knocking out white people and enslaving them to supporting Black Lives Matter, the Black Panther Party, and the Black Hebrew Israelites, a militant black supremacist hate group. In one of his rap songs, Brooks bragged about being a terrorist and a killer in the city.
After the incident, an utterly remorseless Brooks went to a stranger s house and pretended to be a homeless man pleading for help. The homeowner invited him in, gave him a jacket, and made him a sandwich before police arrested Brooks on his front porch. Along with much of the media, Waukesha Police Chief Daniel Thompson is essentially treating the incident as a mass casualty accident. Thompson, who has been reluctant to associate Brooks political views with the attack, helped organize a Black Lives Matter march where his officers kneeled with and praised protestors last year.