I PLEAD THE FIF…

What a clown show.

More coverage from Vice, of all people. Emphasis is ours and it’s LOL:

After declaring himself a sovereign citizen and deciding to represent himself at trial, the man accused of killing six people and injuring 62 others by driving his SUV into a Wisconsin Christmas parade cross-examined several victims of the attack himself in court last week.

“Fair to say there were hundreds, even thousands of people for the parade?” Darrell Brooks Jr., 40, asked a witness who said he saw the SUV driving over people like “speed bumps.” “And you only saw a handful of people struck?”

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Early on in his trial, Brooks fired the attorney defending him against six first-degree murder charges and 77 additional charges in connection to the attack on Nov. 21, 2021, in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Since then, he’s continually spouted points from the pseudo-legal sovereign citizen movement, which purports believers don’t need to follow the United States legal system and attempted to delay his trial numerous times.

Brooks previously pleaded not guilty because of insanity but then pulled that defense and has now pleaded not guilty.

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As detailed by Fox 6 News, the state called several witnesses to the stand, almost all of which gave emotional testimony about what they saw during the attack. Because he’s representing himself, Brooks was allowed to cross-examine the witnesses. His questions were designed to cast doubt that he was the one driving, and he asked numerous witnesses if they could see exactly who was driving.

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During cross-examination, Brooks has frequently called “hearsay”—until the judge chastised him for not knowing what it meant—and attempted to cast doubt on the idea that people were intentionally struck. Brooks even cross-examined a police officer who shot at the vehicle in an attempt to stop the attack. “I’m trained to stop the threat. You were the threat,” the officer said when Brooks asked if he was “shooting to kill.”

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