In the early hours after the horror unfolded, the corporate press settled on the narrative that culprit Darrell Edward Brooks Jr was ‘fleeing the scene of a crime’ after being involved in a ‘knife fight’.
This served to diminish Brooks’ responsibility for carrying out the massacre and eliminate any possibility that it was motivated by his now proven hatred for white people and support for Black Lives Matter.
How convenient, except that as predicted, it turned out to be false.
As the Associated Press later reported, based on statements by law enforcement, the killer “was not being chased by police at the time of the crash.”
This means that Brooks deliberately rammed into dozens of victims, having decided to take the parade route when he could have turned down a number of less busy roads instead.
That’s why he was subsequently hit with five charges of intentional homicide, with more charges possible.
(...) Summit News
