Darrell Brooks sentencing: Brooks outburst as judge was handing down sentence — FOX6 News Milwaukee

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: The record should reflect that it's 453, Mr. Brooks is back in this courtroom, Mr. Brooks. The only way I will honor that request is if you specifically waive your right to do so. Without that, that's not a convenience for you over there. You go over there when you frankly demand removal under Illinois v. Allen. You demand anything. No, you conduct it. [00:00:25] Speaker 2: My conduct didn't demand anything either. [00:00:29] Speaker 1: All right, Mr. Brooks, please sit down, and I'm going to continue with my sentencing remarks. [00:00:34] Speaker 2: You keep changing the jurisdiction. It's a subject matter jurisdiction that has yet to be proven on the record in that court and in this one. [00:00:43] Speaker 1: Mr. Brooks, please sit down. [00:00:44] Speaker 2: I would like to go back to the other court. [00:00:45] Speaker 1: It's not a courtesy to you. If you'd like to specifically waive your right to be physically present, then I will entertain that. Otherwise, you need to sit down. [00:00:53] Speaker 2: I never waived the right to not be present. [00:00:56] Speaker 1: That's because you forfeited your right to be present by conduct. I didn't forfeit anything, Your Honor. You're now back in this courtroom. [00:01:01] Speaker 3: Your Honor, I wrote three. I did what you asked me to do. [00:01:04] Speaker 1: You never once pledged to me, sir, that you would not interrupt. And you're demonstrating by being here that you continue to interrupt. [00:01:11] Speaker 2: Man, I ain't trying to hear all that. Because at the end of the day, I did what you asked me to do. [00:01:16] Speaker 3: You told me, you told the bailiff to tell me. [00:01:18] Speaker 1: Mr. Brooks, this is not a debate. [00:01:20] Speaker 3: You told the bailiff to tell me that I had to write. [00:01:21] Speaker ?: It's not a debate. [00:01:21] Speaker 1: You asked to come over here, and I honored that. [00:01:24] Speaker 3: Well, I exercised my right three times. I shouldn't have had to do it three times. [00:01:28] Speaker 1: None of those opportunities that you wrote to me said, I pledge to not interrupt. [00:01:34] Speaker 3: I've never had to do that before. You've never required that before. [00:01:39] Speaker 1: That is actually not true, sir. [00:01:40] Speaker 3: You've never required that before. Every single time that I've been brought over there, after some time, sometimes very short, sometimes an extended period of time. [00:01:51] Speaker 1: Mr. Brooks, you are just simply trying to delay the inevitable. Please sit down. [00:01:54] Speaker 3: I don't care about the inevitable. It was already written from day one what was going to happen. It doesn't make me lose any sleep about that. I know I'm okay. I'm okay with everything. Then please sit down. I just want to be treated fairly, which I have not been. Please sit down. And then you, your honor, and then you always make it seem like it's some type of aim, and it's not. Please sit down. We're talking about constitutional rights. You just told me, or you told the bailiff to tell me that I had to write to exercise a right that I should already have. I did that. Not once, not twice, three times. And it still was an honor. And then I raised this sign. I'm waving this for like 20 minutes. Saying I would want to come back. I'm doing this. You're here now. Hey, can I come back? Can I come back? Can I come back? So sit down. It was an honor. And then I said, okay. I'll write this and I'll see if your honor can see it on the screen, the objection sign saying, I've exercised my right to be present. Can I stop for a minute? May I have the order of the court? [00:02:59] Speaker 1: I'll explain it. But you have to stop so I can explain it. Your honor, you've never, I did what you asked me to do. Actually not. Yes. [00:03:08] Speaker 3: Let me explain if you would like. If I didn't, your honor, if I did not do what you asked me to do, then why was I allowed to come back if I did not do what you asked me to do? [00:03:17] Speaker 1: Because I'm frankly going to a very distinct portion of this hearing where I am going to impose sentence. Okay, that doesn't answer the question though. [00:03:26] Speaker 3: And that matters. That doesn't answer the question. [00:03:28] Speaker 1: Please sit down and I will explain and remain quiet without interrupting me. [00:03:32] Speaker 3: With all due respect. [00:03:34] Speaker 1: That doesn't mean you're respecting me, so please sit down. [00:03:36] Speaker 3: With all due respect, you told the bailiff when I first said, because every time that I've been brought over there in the past. [00:03:44] Speaker 1: Mr. Brooks, I don't need a history lesson of what I've done. [00:03:49] Speaker 3: That when I exercise my right to be present, you've always said, we have the record. We have the record. We can dig into the record. [00:03:58] Speaker 1: Mr. Brooks? [00:03:59] Speaker 3: I know what the requirement was of me going over there. You've always stated on the record that when I exercise my right to be present, you will bring me back if I will follow the rules of the quorum. That's your exact words, which you said every time. [00:04:16] Speaker 1: Which you're demonstrating right now that you have absolutely no ability to do. [00:04:21] Speaker 3: With all due respect, I've never had to go through any type of certain words that needed to be said or stressed or anything like that before. I've always done it the way that you've asked me to do it. No different day today, when I told the bailiff I would like to be present, you told the bailiff, if he wants to be present, he has to put it in writing. [00:04:47] Speaker 1: And pledge to me that he will not interrupt me. [00:04:50] Speaker 3: I put it in writing. [00:04:51] Speaker 1: Without a pledge. [00:04:53] Speaker 3: So why am I here? [00:04:59] Speaker 1: Because I'm going to move on to another phase of this hearing, and I thought it important that you be here in person. [00:05:05] Speaker 3: So I was here. [00:05:06] Speaker 1: But you didn't reclaim your right to be back here. [00:05:09] Speaker 3: Then why am I here then, Your Honor? [00:05:10] Speaker 1: Because I'm allowing it to happen. [00:05:12] Speaker 3: Okay, and I respect that you're allowing it, but still, it doesn't answer the question, though, Your Honor. It does not answer the question. Mr. Brooks. Your Honor, as a public servant, I have the right to ask questions of Your Honor. [00:05:26] Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you one more time, and if you refuse to sit down, then you are in direct disobedience of a court order. Sit down and be quiet so I can make the appropriate record. [00:05:38] Speaker 3: Can you tell me what the court order is? [00:05:40] Speaker 1: He's not going to obey. He's now forfeiting his right to be present. I didn't say I wasn't going to obey. He will go into the other courtroom. [00:05:46] Speaker 2: I didn't say I wasn't going to obey. We'll be in recess until he's there. I just asked what is the order.