As I described last week, Darrell Brooks has been doing his best to turn his trial (for running people down in a Waukesha Christmas Parade) into a kind of daily circus. Today, Brooks was removed from the court room after he continued mumbling during testimony by his own witness.

“Mr. Brooks, you are advised to stop with the commentary,” Judge Jennifer Dorow said.

“No, I’m gonna say what I wanna to say,” Brooks replied.

Judge Dorow stopped the trial and excused the jury as Brooks claimed this was “judicial misconduct.” She refused to take the bait and said nothing while the jury was leaving the room. Brooks kept badgering and finally Dorow ordered that the room be cleared so Brooks could be moved to another room where he could participate remotely.

#BREAKING: The defendant #DarrellBrooks has been removed from the courtroom again after repeated interruptions during this own witness's testimony.

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At the time of that disruption, Brooks was actually interrupting his own witness who’d been called out of order to accommodate the schedule of an interpreter. Here’s what led up to Brooks being ejected.

This witness was a complete disaster for Brooks defense. Marquez was injured by Brooks as he drove his SUV through the parade. Marquez however did not recall any details from the incident. Brooks then questioned about the plaintiff, complaints, and claims. On his own witness!!

— John Curtis  (@Johnmcurtis) October 18, 2022

The state then cross-examined Marquez and that’s when Brooks began objecting to everything.

Brooks “of course it was gonna be overruled.” pic.twitter.com/BdRudhs9LM

— John Curtis  (@Johnmcurtis) October 18, 2022

And the mumbling and interruptions just kept going as you can see in both of these clips.

Brooks refused to behave appropriately.

Brooks “man judicial misconduct. Man. Crazy. Crazy.” pic.twitter.com/8pWZZSQ1Se

— John Curtis  (@Johnmcurtis) October 18, 2022

Finally, Judge Dorow had had enough and asked the jury to leave.

I still don’t understand what Brooks’ goal is with all of this. I suggested last week that he was attempting to goad the judge into an outburst. It still seems that way to me but he’s not having much success. Especially given the level of constant disrespect, she’s remaining pretty calm. And despite it all, the truth of what happened is making it on the record. Yesterday, the jury heard how, after the attack, Brooks was wandering south of the parade asking strangers to call him an Uber.

The day’s first witnesses testified seeing Brooks in a residential area off Maple Avenue south of the parade route.

The first was Sean Backler, who spoke directly to a person he identified in court as Brooks following the parade attack. Backler said Brooks asked him to call an Uber for him, which Backler declined to do.

Domanic Caproon also said he spoke to Brooks, who asked Caproon to call for a ride. Caproon didn’t request an Uber, but he said he gave his cellphone to Brooks, who called an unknown person.

Erin Cordes testified she also talked to Brooks in the aftermath of the incident near the parade route. Brooks asked to use her phone and called his mother, Cordes testified, adding that she heard Brooks repeatedly insist his mother call him an Uber ride…

The man who briefly sheltered Brooks after he came to his home on Elizabeth Street, near Aries Industries, testified that Brooks presented himself as “homeless and cold” before police arrived.

Daniel Rider, who knew nothing about the parade incident at that time, became more nervous when he heard squad cars approaching his house, subsequently telling Brooks he would have to wait for the Uber ride he called outside the house. Rider’s Ring video camera recorded the moment officers arrived and arrested Brooks.

When Brooks was arrested, officers searched him and found a key with a ford emblem on it. As you may recall, the vehicle used in the attack was a red Ford Escape.

Despite the disruptions, the prosecution is expected to wrap up its case tomorrow. Then it will be Brooks’ turn to try to present a defense. I don’t suspect that is going to go very well, which means we’ll probably have a lot more disruptions and muttering about the judge. But in the end, none of it seems to be helping him at all. He’s going to jail for life and I imagine once he winds up there he’ll spend the next 30+ years telling anyone who will listen that he was only convicted because the whole process was so unfair to him.