WAUKESHA, Wis.—The man who served for 15 years as Milwaukee County sheriff said his former colleagues in the Milwaukee district attorney’s office and the circuit court system “have blood on their hands” for letting Darrell E. Brooks Jr. out on low bail two days before he allegedly mowed down and killed six participants—including an 8-year-old boy—in the Waukesha Christmas Parade.
David A. Clarke Jr., who last served as Milwaukee sheriff in 2017, on Thursday blamed Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and the Milwaukee County Circuit Court for “deliberate indifference” that allowed Brooks to make bail even though he was charged with allegedly running over the mother of his child with the same vehicle used in the Waukesha killings.
