re: Deputies arrest 4 in LSU student Madison Brooks case

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How was it that she was so out of mind she was standing in front of an oncoming vehicle?

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Its been said she was trying flag down a car. Not sure if true. Even sober people have been killed doing that...not judging speed and distance and thats it.

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We know and they knew it was almost 3AM, freezing cold, she was drunk, and she was lost.

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Im not arguing they could not have possibly handled the situation better but they have not been charged in any with her death, not yet anyway.

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Said by who?

What you're suggesting is incredulous.

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It was said in this thread but I'll scratch that comment as I could not find it anywhere where the uber driver said that. Not sure why that would be incredulous. Its definitely possible she wasn't thinking straight so is it more incredulous that she was trying to flag a car down vs just wandering in the middle of the road

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Wonder why they didn't? Hmmm . . .

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Because they feared being in trouble for raping her? Leaving her at Jack in the Box down the street would not have made a difference in that situation. I think at that point they probably did not realize how much trouble they could possibly be in...maybe the driver did IDK.

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It was said in this thread

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A lot has been said in the thread where people attributing something to a nonexistent source. Much of it came from one poster.

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A lot has been said in the thread where people attributing something to a nonexistent source. Much of it came from one poster.

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Once people start quoting Hodsontiger, the thread has fallen off the rails.

That was a special case because of all the politics behind it. Especially since it was an election year, the BLM movement at the time etc. This case is more of a regional case and yeah there's racial undertones, it's not the same as the Rittenhouse case.

You rang?



It is unknown why Brooks was standing in the middle of the road when she was hit by a vehicle. 

She was taken to a hospital in critical condition.

Deputies said they do not believe or suspect impairment from the driver.

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Why was she in the road? Would have to read the statement of the Uber driver as to what he saw. This article just said she was in the middle of the roadway.

The story below says:

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Brooks, 19, was allegedly raped in a car before the fatal accident, and her suspected attackers let her out on Burbank Drive (Louisiana Highway 42), a four-lane highway that's separated by a grassy median.

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But the guys, I thought, had said the Pelican Lakes subdivision:

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It may have been she Madison was so intoxicated she just wandered into the roadway not being able to see clearly.

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No DA would charge them and no jury would convict them because they didn't leave an intoxicated girl on the side of the road and instead drove her to a police station or somewhere safe. Even if she did immediately want out of the car.

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Had they done that prior to the rape, yes.

After the rapes, she was a walking rape kit. All of the evidence was there and there are cameras near any police station - lots of them.

The lawyers for the perps said they'd been drinking ("They were at a bar a few hours so..."), so another reason not to roll up at the police station.

It's also a reason not to go to the well-lit gas stations they passed up on the way to the drop off location. More cameras and more witnesses.

Some pretty good detective work went into just tracking them down. They had to go through all the footage from Reggie's (likely after locating it due to phone location history) and figure out who these guys were. You saw the footage outside Reggie's. Not exactly clear and they were some random dudes from Walker. Not locals or LSU students.

How'd police figure out who the four guys were?

What was Madison doing in traffic at 3 a.m.?

We don't have the Uber driver's statement.

I think she was flagging down help but was struck instead. How is my making assumptions anything else different than 90% of the non-media non-affidavit statements in this thread?

But you guys are raising a good point:

WHERE WAS MADISON DROPPED OFF?

Check this out:

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Kerry Miller, an attorney representing Brooks’ family, slammed the comment telling Fox News Digital: “I was blown away by that comment. I mean their clients gave sworn statements that they raped a young girl who was intoxicated.

“What does he mean by that? That had she not been run over by a car seconds after being dropped off in the middle of the road that they wouldn’t have come forward and admitted their guilt? … Clearly a crime was committed. And I think that will be proven in court.”

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Question for Judge:

IF what the family attorney said is true, is that manslaughter?

Or negligent homicide?


This says "seconds" and we know Madison was .319...


Did the Uber driver have a dash cam? Wonder if the perps are seen driving from the scene on the cam?