‘Not fitting their narrative’: Waukesha feels abandoned after tragic parade attack

New York Post ^ | December 13, 2021 | Dana Kennedy

[karpov]

WAUKESHA, Wis. — For her whole life, 67-year-old Sharon Millard was so shy she used to ask her identical twin sister to go on dates in her place in high school.

But ever since Nov. 21, when Darrell Brooks allegedly plowed into dozens of people at the Waukesha Christmas parade, killing six people, including an 8-year-old boy, and injuring up to 60 others, Millard has felt compelled to speak about the atrocity she witnessed.

One of the people killed was Millard’s fellow “Dancing Granny” — 79-year-old Virginia “Ginny” Sorenson — who was tossed up in the air like a rag doll by Brooks’s SUV, police say.

“No one ever saw him coming,” Millard told The Post. “He was going so fast. All I knew is I saw Ginny fly up in the air and land in front of me. I saw her curled up and blood was coming out of her like a river. I was standing in blood.”

Brooks is a violent 39-year-old career criminal, registered sex offender and amateur rapper from north Milwaukee with a rap sheet going back to 1999, who allegedly punched the mother of his child in the face early last month and then drove over her, leaving tire marks on her leg. Despite the severity of that crime, he was released five days before the Waukesha rampage on a cash bail of just $1,000 set by liberal Milwaukee County prosecutors.

“He can be a quiet dude,” Brooks’ Milwaukee neighbor Willie Bates told The Post. “But he can also be a bad dude.”

Brooks bounced between his mother’s house in a rough area on Milwaukee’s north side and those of various girlfriends, one 20 miles away in Waukesha.

[cport]

"Can’t help it. I’m an engineer by trade."

I get it, I was an engineering tech at my last job. I used to grumble about how the engineers would get the glory; they designed it, but we built the proto, tested it, and did all the scutt work during V&V. As I progressed in my career, I eventually realized that I had the better job; I enjoyed the complexity of my job, being part of the creative process, the satisfaction of creating protos from scratch and testing and retesting until producing something that worked, getting paid overtime for my long hours as opposed to the salaried engineers, and all without the looming spectre of massive school loan debt (all I invested was a six year hitch in the Navy to learn elecronics).

In this instance, I believe I would thoroughly enjoy that role. Plenty of prototypes out there on zero bail to test it out on, over and over, as I am confident that you would submit your initial design with extra wide tolerances that would need to be narrowed, thereby ensuring the V&V portion of the development process would take a considerable amount of time. I am also pretty sure that you would be there to oversee each step in the process, unlike the usual format that embroiled the engineers were I worked; countless status report meetings with the now political head engineer that used to drink beers with you but now dogs you about how long the V&V is taking as you all collectively edit your Gannt chart because the development lab created your your delays with our hour-long plus liquid lunches at the local brew pub.

[cport]

To those unfamiliar with engineering process, V&V stands for verification and validation.

[.44 Special]

I can certainly understand your point of view. Many of us came from the shop floor and got our education along the way. Timed served mold-maker, fitter, and machinist.
I even laughed when it was time to shoot the engineers and put it into production.

[cradle of freedom]

Notice he lives with his mother between girl friends. When he is living with his girlfriend he is parasiting off her welfare checks.

Thank you Lyndon Baines Johnson.