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Once he was in the parade, I'm not so sure it would be so easy to just make a turn down a different street.
Do we know what kind of barriers he crashed? Were they saw horse type or orange cone/barrel traffic barriers? Or did he actually crash into and push police cruisers out of his way?
In any case, I agree once he made contact with the crowd I don't think it would have been that easy to turn around.
A court-appointed attorney will guide him to say it was an accident and he HAS gotten off the hook repeatedly for a lifetime of crime.
An accident isn't going to get him off for this; even if it was initially an accident it was caused by his reckless driving AND he kept going injuring/killing people as well as fled the scene.
Stupid yes but I'm sure he's been driving for years. Plowing through a crowd in an effort to evade the police simply doesn't make sense. The police weren't chasing him. He could have easily turn the car around and gone in another direction.
At that point, the police were shooting at him lol.
Maybe he panicked.
You are projecting rational thought on him. He's just left what sounds like a domestic violence incident. Men in that mode are usually enraged and irrational.
And again he may have believed the police were or would soon be chasing him. He knew whatever he had done could get him in trouble.
Do we know what kind of barriers he crashed? Were they saw horse type or orange cone/barrel traffic barriers? Or did he actually crash into and push police cruisers out of his way?
The only thing I can find is this quote from Police Chief Thompson
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Brooks "intentionally drove his maroon SUV through barricades and into a crowd of people" at 4:39 p.m. Sunday, Thompson said.
The only thing I can find is this quote from Police Chief Thompson
I've purposely not watched a lot of the videos f what happened, so I can't say what the actual barricades were made of
Same here. I'm waiting until someone puts them all together so I don't have to watch it multiple times.
I was mainly wondering if the side streets were blocked by police cruisers because that's what my town does. Possibly, that kept him from turning onto one of the side streets.
At that point, the police were shooting at him lol.
Maybe he panicked.
You are projecting rational thought on him. He's just left what sounds like a domestic violence incident. Men in that mode are usually enraged and irrational.
And again he may have believed the police were or would soon be chasing him. He knew whatever he had done could get him in trouble.
But they wouldn't have had he turned around and went back the other way.
I'm sure he realized he was in big trouble and the police might be looking for him. Enraged/irrational no doubt but he's also a career criminal. So, if the idea was not to get caught... why the freak out? The police weren't chasing him. Why not turned around and go back the other way.
The police believe what he did was deliberate. So, the question then becomes... why?
You think he's stupid and/or angry enough to step on the gas to get through a parade. I suspect it was more than that.
I think he came upon the parade. And while in a rage decided then and there to plow into the crowd and kill people. Was he motivated by race? My guess is yes.
But none of this speculation matters because Brooks isn't dead.. and we'll know why soon enough.
It seems mighty logical if you think that maybe he didn't even know there was a parade until he come up on it
He didn't "come up on it." He was not being pursued and he drove past BARRIERS.
Drive past any barrier on the road, and you're at the mercy of whatever happens next. Parade, construction, ditch, ice, snow, etc. there's a reason you don't drive past the barrier.
He didn't "come up on it." He was not being pursued and he drove past BARRIERS.
Drive past any barrier on the road, and you're at the mercy of whatever happens next. Parade, construction, ditch, ice, snow, etc. there's a reason you don't drive past the barrier.
He did it because he wanted to. He had run over someone before. The man is psycho and just wanted to kill some people.
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