Wednesday 26 October 2022 05:34 AM Waukesha parade killer Darrell Brooks tells jury he's 'made peace with God' in ... trends now

Accused Waukesha, Wisconsin parade killer Darrell Brooks made his closing argument in the end of his farcical, month-long trial Tuesday, in which he said his 'conscience is clear.' 

Darrell Brooks, 40, allegedly plowed through the crowd at a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on November 21, 2021, killing six people between the ages of eight and 81, and injuring more than 60 people.

Though Brooks elected to represent himself in his trial, his repeated interruptions, outbursts, and erratic behavior have led to him being removed from the courtroom and led to Judge Jennifer Dorow admitting she's frightened of him.

In his closing remarks, Brooks said 'my conscience is clear' and has 'made peace with God' - even shockingly saying it 'was God's will' that it happened - before the jury was sequestered at 6:24 p.m. local time, while appearing to cry. 

The judge allowed him to give his closing arguments to the jury in person on Tuesday. 

He tried to argue that the SUV had been recalled due to a throttle malfunction. After Opper objected - a Wisconsin State Patrol vehicle inspector testified earlier in the trial that the vehicle was in good working order, including the brakes - he suggested the driver might have panicked. He noted that some witnesses testified they heard the SUV's horn honking.

He didn't quite acknowledge he was the driver but said that at night when he's alone in his cell he often asks questions how 'this' happened. 

But he has never asked himself if 'this' was intentional because he knows it wasn't. He didn't explain what he was referring to with the word 'this.'

'Throughout this year I´ve been called a lot of things,' Brooks said. 'And to be fair I am a lot of things. A murderer is not one of them.'

Among the sideshows during the trial, Dorow said Friday that Brooks was giving her a 'stare-down' which she called disrespectful and 'frankly, makes me scared.' Brooks continued to stare at the judge while banging his fists on the table.

Brooks had just finished accusing the prosecution of coaching Brooks' own witnesses, an allegation Dorow said 'has no basis in fact,' USA Today reported. 

The trial became a bit of a sideshow at multiple stages, as Brooks was removed to participate virtually in a separate courtroom multiple times and yelled that the court had 'no integrity' after the jury had been excused for the day.  

At times, Brooks has refused to recognize his own name and frequently has muttered under his breath about the trial not being fair and objected to almost every question prosecutors have asked of witnesses, usually to no avail.

At one point, he stuffed a laminated sign reading 'objection' into the waistband of his orange prison attire after the judge muted his microphone so she could read off his 77 charges without interruption 

Brooks earlier this week told the jury to remember that there were two sides to every story, while repeatedly mentioning the amount of 'suffering' the parade incident had created - his own included.

He insisted that nothing that happened during the parade attack last November was intentional, and tearfully bemoaned the names - such as 'monster' and 'demon' -  he had been called in the press since his arrest.

Brooks finally told the jury that he wanted them to see him for who he truly was, and told them the power was in their hands to determine what was truth and what wasn't.

He is charged with murdering six people by plowing an SUV through a Christmas parade in Wisconsin last year.

Judge Jennifer Dorow noted that she had provided him with excerpts from a judicial book on opening statements that she felt 'would be helpful to provide to Mr. Brooks as he puts together his opening statement.' 

She added that his remarks needed to be 'based on the law and evidence you believe is properly admissible.' 

Brooks started by talking about how there are 'two sides to every story.'

'I would just like to first say that, I want to bring to remembering something that I think everyone in this room has been taught, pretty much as far back as we can remember, is that there's always two sides to every story,' he said.

Brooks has called what happened at the parade 'a tragedy' while reminding jurors that there's two sides to every story.

'It's easy to look at the magnitude of something like this and form opinions,' he said. 'I think it's easy to disregard a lot of factors. ... It's easy to forget the other side of the coin.'

He then started choking back tears and dabbing his eyes with a tissue. He said the entire community is suffering, including his family.

'There's been a lot of words thrown out there about the alleged, lot of speculation, lot of ridicule. Words like `demon.´ Words like `molester,´' he said.

He had tried to get the case against him thrown out on grounds of insanity, but he withdrew the plea early last month

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