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Aaron Rodgers to contemplate future after ’emotion’ of season has passed
GREEN BAY, Wis. — The signs were everywhere that Sunday night was it for Aaron Rodgers: He walked off Lambeau Field with his arm around best buddy Randall Cobb, he didn’t want to give away his game-worn jersey and he fought back his emotions in the final moments of his postgame session with reporters.
Before anyone drafts retirement papers or a trade agreement, consider the other indicators that came after the Green Bay Packers’ season-ending 20-16 loss to the Detroit Lions: He did and said some of the same things after the Packers’ exit from the playoffs last season. And the season before that.
This time, however, there will be no playoffs. All the Packers needed to do was beat the Lions on Sunday night and they were in. Instead, they finished 8-9 and missed the postseason for the first time in coach Matt LaFleur’s four seasons.
“At some point, the carousel comes to a stop and it’s time to get off, and I think you kind of know when that is,” Rodgers said Sunday. “And that’s what needs to be contemplated. Is it time? Also, what’s the organization doing? That’s part of it, as well. But the competitive fire is always going to be there. I don’t think that ever goes away. Sometimes it gets transferred, I think, to other things that might not ever fill that large void. But like I said, I feel good about what I’ve accomplished in this league and wouldn’t have any regrets walking away. But I got to see what it feels like once I get away from this.”
Last offseason, Rodgers announced his decision to return on March 8. He signed a three-year, $150 million contract extension shortly thereafter. That deal contains a $58.3 million bonus plus more than $1 million in other guarantees if he plays in 2023. Rodgers insisted on Sunday that he could walk away from that money.
When asked what the determining factor will be, Rodgers said: “It’s a feeling.” He then proceeded to list several things that could influence that feeling.
“Do I feel like I have anything left to prove to myself?” he said. “Do I want to go back and gear up for another grind? Or is it time? Is time to step away? Is it time for another voice to be leading this team?
“I think I need to get away and contemplate those things. Those are real to me. I have a lot of pride in what I’ve accomplished in this league, but I’m also a realist, and I understand where we’re at as a team. We’re a young team; there could be some changes with some of the older guys, and it could be time to step away. But I could take some time and say hell no, man, I need to get back out there and go on another run. But I’ll have to see what it feels like once I’m away from it.”
Rodgers admitted his decision also could be influenced by whether the Packers bring back players like Cobb, David Bakhtiari, Mason Crosby and Marcedes Lewis.
Even if the organization has yet to tell Rodgers face-to-face whether it wants him, it has done so publicly. Last month, general manager Brian Gutekunst told reporters he wants Rodgers to return. LaFleur said he believes the organization still feels the same way, even after one of Rodgers’ least productive seasons.
“Yeah, in my mind, absolutely,” LaFleur said. “But I think, ultimately, he’s going to decide that.”
While Rodgers didn’t sound keen on playing for another team in the event he wasn’t ready to retire but the Packers wanted to move on to Jordan Love, he didn’t completely close that door.
Rodgers’ last throw of the season was intercepted by Lions safety Kerby Joseph with 3:27 left in the game. The Packers never got the ball back. It was Rodgers’ 12th interception of the season — second highest only to the 13 he threw in 2008, his first season as a starter. Joseph, who picked off Rodgers twice in the November game at Detroit, became the first player to pick him off three times in a single regular season.
Yet Rodgers had no question in his mind that he can still play at a high level, just like he felt at this time last year, when he had wrapped up his second straight NFL MVP season and the fourth of his career.
“The answer is yes,” he said.
Still, Rodgers found life after the trade of wide receiver Davante Adams to the Las Vegas Raiders in March to be rough sledding, even though the Packers drafted three wideouts in Romeo Doubs, Christian Watson and Samori Toure. Even so, Rodgers said there’s “a lot of good, young talent on this team [and] if certain guys make the jumps from years one to two, this offense could look a lot different.”
Just like he did after the previous campaign, Rodgers said he wanted to get away from the season and “take the emotion out of it.”
That’s something he did for most of his 20 minutes in the media auditorium Sunday night.
Until the end.
That’s when he was asked, if this is it, what he will miss the most. Rodgers paused for 10 seconds and said: “I’ll miss the guys. I’ll miss the fans.”
He paused again, collected himself and said: “Yeah. Thank you.”
And into another offseason of contemplation he went.
Indiana Jones Is Back! ‘It’s Full Of Adventure, Laughs, And Real Emotion,’ Says Harrison Ford – World-Exclusive Image | Movies
Indiana Jones. Indy. Henry Jones Jr. Whatever you call him, Harrison Ford’s whip-cracking, Nazi-punching, relic-relishing archaeologist is cinema’s ultimate action hero – a man whose very image invokes the smell of popcorn and the thrill of big-screen adventure. Through the decades, he’s fought fascists, come face-to-face with the Ark Of The Covenant (albeit with his eyes closed), restored the Sankara Stones, drunk from the Holy Grail, and encountered interdimensional life. And he’s not done yet: 15 years after his last Indy outing, Harrison Ford is donning the fedora one last time in the as-yet-untitled Indiana Jones 5. Now, in a major world-exclusive, Empire presents your first look at his epic comeback.
In the new issue, we get the first word on the film that brings the iconic hero back to the screen – and its star promises all the excitement, emotion, spectacle, and unexpected turns that only Indiana Jones can provide. “It’s full of adventure, full of laughs, full of real emotion. And it’s complex and it’s sneaky,” Harrison Ford tells Empire. Stepping back into the world of Indy was no mean feat. “The shooting of it was tough and long and arduous,” he says. “But I’m very happy with the film that we have.”
Why go back, then? 2008’s Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull left our hero happily married to Karen Allen’s Marion Ravenwood. But while it found Indy older and perhaps wiser than we’d ever seen him in the original trilogy, it wasn’t necessarily an ending. That’s where Indiana Jones 5 comes in. “I just thought it would be nice to see one where Indiana Jones was at the end of his journey,” Ford explains. “If a script came along that I felt gave me a way to extend the character.”
That script comes from Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, writing alongside director James Mangold – the Logan and Ford V Ferrari filmmaker, now facing the daunting task of following up a certain Steven Spielberg (on board here as producer). For Mangold, it was all about the challenge of making a final Indiana Jones film. “It became really important to me to figure out how to make this a movie about a hero at sunset,” he says, noting that he steered the film further in that direction. “The issues I brought up about Indy’s age were not things I thought were being addressed in the material being developed at the time. There were ‘old’ jokes, but the material itself wasn’t about it. To me, whatever you greatest liability, you should fly straight towards that. If you try to pretend it’s not there, you end up getting slings and arrows the whole way.”
But let’s not get too hung up on the end just yet – the adventure is only just beginning. Stay tuned for more Indiana Jones exclusives coming soon from Empire, and seek out the world-exclusive Indiana Jones 5 issue – packed with the very first images and interviews, speaking to Harrison Ford, James Mangold, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Boyd Holbrook, James Mangold, Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Simon Emanuel – when it hits newsstands on Thursday 24 November. Pre-order a copy online here.
Indiana Jones 5 comes to UK cinemas on 30 June 2023.
Queen Elizabeth’s funeral: Britain bids farewell to monarch with an outpouring of emotion
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Britain is bidding farewell to Queen Elizabeth II with a majestic funeral steeped in tradition and a send-off reflective of the broad popularity she managed to retain over her remarkable seven-decade reign.
Thousands of people have flocked to Westminster Abbey and streets along the 25-mile (40-kilometer) procession route from central London to Windsor, hoping to catch a glimpse of the sovereign’s flag-draped coffin as it travels by hearse to her final resting place in St. George’s Chapel, within the grounds of Windsor Castle.
Though the death of Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, had been anticipated and carefully planned for for years – funeral arrangements, codenamed “Operation London Bridge,” were long the subject of speculation – the magnitude of this moment of mourning and the public outpouring of emotion has still caught many off guard. Even for those who are not fans of the royal family, her death marks the end of an era, a shift in the national landscape.
At 96, the Queen had become an almost mythical symbol of stability amid constant change. Her 70-year rule was bookended by war and pandemic, punctuated by uncertainty about Britain’s role on the world stage. She came to power as the sun had started to set on the British Empire, and her death has renewed a conversation about the country’s dark colonial past. It comes at a time of great political and economic upheaval, not only in the United Kingdom, but across the globe.
Presidents, prime ministers, princes, an emperor and empress, and other public figures sat side-by-side in pews at Westminster Abbey to pay their last respects – a testament to her far-reaching appeal and deft diplomacy. More than 200 foreign dignitaries were invited, including US President Joe Biden and Commonwealth leaders like Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Many traded limos for buses to arrive at the funeral, just one part of a plan that amounts to the single biggest security operation that British authorities have seen since World War II.
From humanitarian groups, to women’s rights and animal welfare, the Queen was patron of hundreds of charities. Representatives of those patronages, along with emergency service workers and public servants, are also among the 2,000-strong congregation.
The funeral, which serves as both a state and religious service and marks the culmination of 10 days of mourning, honors the Queen with the sort of pageantry that she used to promote the royal family and “brand Britain” throughout her life.
The service takes place in the same abbey nave where, 69 years ago, the Queen was crowned and where, 75 years ago, she was married to her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died last year. A sovereign who knew the soft power of spectacle, her coronation was, at her request, broadcast for the first time on television, bringing the splendor of the monarchy to millions around the world. On Monday, all eyes are on her once again.
Head of state of 15 countries in the Commonwealth realm, including the UK, and Supreme Governor of the Church of England, her appeal as a figurehead lay in her extreme sense of duty, diligent work ethic, and an ability to appear neutral yet personable. Admiration for the Queen has staved off a major reckoning of the crown’s brutal legacy in former colonies – including its historic links with the slave trade – but that already appears to be changing as some Commonwealth countries look to break away.
Last week, Antigua and Barbuda announced plans to hold a referendum on whether to become a republic, and last November, Barbados became the first realm in nearly 30 years to remove the British monarch as head of state.
Many of the Queen’s subjects felt as though they knew her – the woman whose image is on coins and postage stamps, who surveys say appears most frequently in people’s dreams.
“She isn’t just a 21st century monarch, she’s something more,” Chris Rowe, 60, who was camped out on a grassy bank of The Mall to watch the funeral procession with his wife, told CNN. The Queen represents the “continuity of a hundreds-years-old tradition,” he said, adding that he came to London to see “the continuity of the nation.”
While there were no screens, mourners on The Mall were able to hear a radio broadcast of the funeral. People stood still, their gazes lowered.
Over the past four days, an almost familial sense of loss was palpable among mourners in a queue that snaked from Westminster Hall, where the monarch’s body lay in state, for miles along the south bank of the River Thames. In quintessentially British fashion, thousands lined up to say goodbye to the Queen, waiting up to 20 hours to file past her coffin.
Queen Elizabeth’s children, King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward, on Friday entered the cavernous chamber, heads bowed, joining guards to hold silent watch over the velvet catafalque bearing her coffin, adorned with the sovereign’s jewel-encrusted crown, orb and sceptre. A day later, Prince William and Prince Harry, dressed in military uniform, held their own sombre vigil, standing alongside the Queen’s six other grandchildren.
On Monday morning, the King and other members of the royal family followed the coffin as it was conveyed from Westminster Hall, on her final journey to the abbey. It was carried on the same gun carriage used for the funeral of the Queen’s father, King George VI, and Winston Churchill, the first of 15 British prime ministers who served under her.
Small details like the wreath of flowers atop her coffin provided a view into the Queen’s personal taste. Made from flowers and foliage cut from the gardens of Buckingham Palace and other royal estates, it included pink and gold pelargoniums, garden roses and dahlias, with myrtle cut from a plant grown from a sprig that featured in the Queen’s wedding bouquet.
Westminster Abbey’s Tenor Bell tolled throughout the procession, sounding out once a minute for 96 minutes before the service, marking each year of the Queen’s life.
As the coffin moved inside, the Queen’s great-grandchildren Prince George and Princess Charlotte formed part of the procession behind her coffin. The Choir of Westminster Abbey in the Nave sang the Sentences – lines of scripture set to music which have been used at every state funeral since the early part of the 18th century.
It is the sort of traditional, classical music that the Queen championed in life. Hymns chosen are “The Day Thou Gavest, Lord” and “The Lord is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want,” which was sung at her wedding to Prince Philip in 1947, and the anthem “O Taste and see how gracious the Lord is,” which was composed for the Queen’s coronation in 1953 by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
A choral piece was also especially commissioned for the day, composed by the master of the king’s music, Judith Weir, “Like as the hart.” It is said to be inspired by the Queen’s “unwavering Christian faith,” and is a setting of Psalm 42 to music.
Rev. David Hoyle, the Dean of Westminster, is conducting the service. UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, who the Queen appointed just two days before her death, and Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland read lessons and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, delivered a sermon.
The hour-long service will conclude with a two-minute silence, after which the congregation will sing the national anthem, “God Save the King.” The Queen’s piper, who roused her every morning, will play a fitting lament, “Sleep dearie, sleep,” to close the proceedings.
The day’s events are a display of centuries-old rituals – a royal cavalcade flanked by guards in braided uniforms, kilted bagpipers and drummers, streets lined with soldiers saluting as the coffin passes. Minute guns will be fired in Hyde Park and Big Ben will toll throughout the procession to Wellington Arch, where the coffin will be lifted into a hearse and transported to Windsor.
In a committal service Monday afternoon, attended by members of the royal family and the Queen’s household staff past and present, her coffin will be lowered into a royal vault in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. Later in the evening, in a private burial, she will be reunited with her husband of 73 years, “her constant strength and guide,” the Duke of Edinburgh. The couple will be interred together in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, an annex of St. George’s Chapel that also houses the remains of the Queen’s father, her mother the Queen Mother, and her sister Princess Margaret.
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Queen Elizabeth’s Steely Daughter Princess Anne Shows Rare Emotion
On Monday, Anne, 72, dressed in the ceremonial uniform of a Navy admiral, walked alongside Charles. File
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Queen Elizabeth II’s steely only daughter Princess Anne rarely lets her emotions show but the grief has been etched on her face since her mother’s death.
With her elder brother King Charles III called to London, it was left to the queen’s second child to accompany the cortege through Scotland from Balmoral on Sunday.
Dressed in mourning black, she curtseyed as eight kilted soldiers carried the heavy lead-lined casket into the monarch’s official Scottish residence, the Palace of Holyroodhouse, in Edinburgh.
Her sister-in-law Sophie, who is married to her younger brother Prince Edward, was seen placing a comforting hand on her back afterwards.
On Monday, Anne, 72, dressed in the ceremonial uniform of a Royal Navy admiral, walked alongside Charles, Edward and their brother Andrew as the coffin was borne from Holyroodhouse to St Giles’ Cathedral.
She will also accompany the queen’s coffin on the flight back to London from Edinburgh on Tuesday.
Anne’s role may now change depending on whether Charles pursues a slimmed-down monarchy. But he may find his closest sibling a rock of support as he adjusts to his new role.
Learning the hard way
Anne has earned a reputation as the hardest-working royal, squeezing in a career as an Olympic horse rider alongside a lifetime of public engagements.
Cast much in the same plain-speaking mould as her late father Prince Philip, Anne is reported to have once described herself as “not everyone’s idea of a fairy-tale princess”.
“You learn the hard way,” she said. “There isn’t a school for royalty.”
She never sought to please the press, saying she did not “do stunts” and once told photographers to “naff off”.
Anne has carved her own path through the old-world royalty of her parents and embraced more modern ways for her own children.
She has also won respect for her work to support hundreds of charities and organisations.
In 1974, she was the target of a kidnap attempt when her car was ambushed. Two police officers, her chauffeur and a passer-by were shot and wounded.
An account released by the National Archives said assailant Ian Ball pointed his gun at Anne and said: “I want you to come with me for a day or two, because I want 2 million pounds.
“Will you get out of the car?”
The princess replied curtly: “Not bloody likely — and I haven’t got 2 million pounds.”
Anne stuck to a mixture of classic chic and casual, keeping her voluminous, up-do hairstyle throughout her adult life.
She adopted a business-like demeanour that sometimes meant she came across as frosty, and resulted in her sharp, dry sense of humour often being mistaken.
Gifted horse rider
Born on August 15, 1950, Anne was taught at Buckingham Palace before beginning boarding school in 1963.
She inherited her mother’s passion for horses and the young princess became a skilled equestrian.
Anne won the 1971 European Eventing Championship and the British public voted her that year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
“I certainly saw it as a way of proving that you had something that was not dependent on your family and it was down to you to succeed or fail,” she said of her horse riding career.
She married equestrian Mark Phillips in 1972. The wedding was an international event watched by an estimated 500 million people.
Anne represented Britain at the Montreal 1976 Olympics, returning without a medal after a particularly nasty fall — memorable for TV viewers, though not for her.
Concussed, she remounted her horse but had no recollection of competing at all.
She became a member of the International Olympic Committee in 1988 and was on the organising committee for the London 2012 Games.
Anne and her army officer first husband had two children — sports events managing director Peter and equestrian Zara.
Breaking with tradition, the couple decided Phillips should not accept a title so their children would be free to determine their own lives.
Zara, who married former England rugby captain Mike Tindall, would follow her parents to the Olympics, winning silver in the team eventing at London 2012.
Divorce and remarriage
Anne was granted the title of Princess Royal, traditionally given to the monarch’s eldest daughter, in 1987.
Two years later, she split from Phillips and the couple divorced in 1992.
Nine months later, Anne married naval commander Timothy Laurence, a former equerry to Queen Elizabeth.
They wed in Scotland as the Church of England did not permit the remarriage of divorcees.
Anne supports more than 300 charities, organisations and military regiments, including an association with Save the Children that has lasted more than 50 years.
She regularly tops the charts for conducting the most royal engagements, and writes her own speeches.
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Metacognitive ‘stop-and-think’ training shows promise in improving emotion regulation among depressed patients
Cognitive training interventions appear to improve aspects of emotion regulation among patients with major depression, according to new research published in Behaviour Research and Therapy.
While the emotional toll of major depressive disorder is well known, the condition is also associated with various cognitive deficits, including problems with memory, processing speed, attention, and executive functioning. Previous research has indicated that improving cognitive function can improve depressive symptom severity. The authors of the current research were interested in learning more about potential cognitive training programs that could be of help.
“As a neuropsychologist I am interested in cognitive functions, and their relation to emotional health,” said study author Jan Egil Stubberud, an associate professor in clinical neuropsychology at the University of Oslo.
“Emotional regulation and cognitive deficits are common and major complaints in depression. Yet, these processes are not satisfactorily addressed by existing treatments. Knowing that depression is a leading cause of the global burden of disability and disease, I wanted to explore the potential of improving existing interventions, by using novel techniques that target underlying vulnerability factors, such as cognitive functions.”
The study included 60 participants aged 18-60 years who had received a diagnosis of mild or moderate major depressive disorder and reported executive dysfunction in everyday life.
Half of the participants were randomly assigned to complete Goal Management Training, which included exercises to facilitate planning, organizing, and following-through on a goal. The training also included a self-monitoring technique (“stop-and-think”) in which participants were encouraged to periodically stop their ongoing behavior to reflect on the present moment and identify negative automatic thought processes.
The other half of the participants were assigned to complete computerized cognitive training, which included intensive procedural learning tasks designed to improve basic cognitive functions, such as attention, memory, and processing speed.
The participants completed validated assessments of brooding rumination and emotional regulation prior to treatment, immediately following treatment, and 6 months following treatment completion.
The researchers observed a significant decrease of brooding rumination over time. Both those who completed Goal Management Training and those who completed the computerized cognitive training reported less brooding symptoms following the intervention.
Nonacceptance of emotional responses, an aspect of emotional regulation, also improved over time for both groups. But only the Goal Management Training intervention was associated with improved clarity of emotional responses, meaning the extent to which individuals can identify the emotions they are experiencing.
“Due to interplay between cognitive functions and emotion regulation, our findings suggest that there is great potential in supplementing other therapeutic interventions with cognitive remediation techniques,” Stubberud told PsyPost. “On balance, addressing cognitive (dys)functions may facilitate patients with depression to achieve greater benefit from cognitively demanding treatments, such as cognitive behavioral therapy.”
The researchers noted that the improvements in emotional clarity were still seen 6 months after the intervention had concluded. “The application of the metacognitive ‘stop-and-think’ strategy, in addition to practicing mindfulness techniques, and the monitoring of performance in real-life situations, are core aspects of GMT. We suggest that these elements were vital to effecting the self-reported long-term changes in emotion regulation observed after GMT,” Stubberud and his colleagues wrote in their study.
The initial findings act as an important stepping stone for future research. “Future studies should include a control group not receiving an intervention/or receiving a placebo intervention,” Stubberud explained. “Critically, the present findings need to be cross-validated in a larger and more representative depression sample, especially considering the small sample size.”
“Research on depression has identified cognitive processes that play a critical role in the onset and maintenance of depression, and our findings demonstrate the potential of cognitive remediation in reducing maladaptive emotion regulation in depression,” Stubberud added.
The study, “Improved emotion regulation in depression following cognitive remediation: A randomized controlled trial“, was authored by J. Stubberud, R. Huster, K. Hoorelbeke, Å. Hammar, and B.I. Hagenb.
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Translator chokes up with emotion as Zelensky addresses European Parliament
The leader of the self-declared separatist region in Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, says he expects his forces to surround the port city of Mariupol on Tuesday, adding in a television interview that the town of Volnovakha – which is half-way between Mariupol and Donetsk – was almost completely surrounded.
“Our task for today is encircle Mariupol,” he said.
Pushilin claimed without offering any evidence that nationalist elements in Mariupol were terrorizing the civilian population and were using them as a human shield. The city has a population of some 400,000.
Separately, the deputy head of the Donetsk People’s Militia, Eduard Basurin, said the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), along with Russian forces, would organize humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to leave Mariupol.
The corridors would be open through Wednesday, he said.
Basurin said several towns in the region had already fallen to the militia of the DPR.
Vadym Boichenko, the mayor of Mariupol, said on Ukrainian television that residential areas had been shelled for five days – with heavy artillery, rockets and aircraft.
“There are many wounded, dead local residents, women, children.”
“But today, the best sons of their fatherland on the borders of our city are doing everything, not to give Mariupol away,” Boichenko said.
“They have destroyed important infrastructure, there is no electricity in the city, there is no heat. We are fighting to [the] last bullet.”
Waukesha parade crash suspect appeared to have no emotion as officers tried to stop him, authorities say
At least six people were killed and another 62 were injured in the ensuing crash, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday in Waukesha County Circuit Court. The youngest victim who died was only 8 years old, according to his family’s GoFundMe. More than a dozen people remain hospitalized at a nearby children’s hospital, and three were released Tuesday, according to the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin.
Darrell E. Brooks, 39, was later apprehended by police and officially charged Tuesday with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide, according to the Waukesha County District Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors said they will consider an additional homicide charge following the death of a sixth person on Tuesday from sustained injuries.
One officer, identified in the complaint as Detective Casey, first heard a horn honking near his location along the parade route. As Casey went to investigate, he saw a red Ford Escape SUV driving past parade participants and “observed people jumping out of the way,” according to the complaint.
The SUV was moving at a slow speed at the time, the complaint said, and Casey pounded on the hood of the vehicle while yelling “Stop” multiple times. The SUV brushed past Casey and continued further toward the procession.
Casey chased the vehicle on foot as it began to be driven faster, the complaint said, and radioed for assistance. Seconds later, other reports came in over the police radio that people were being hit by the vehicle.
Another officer, identified as Officer Butryn, also tried to get in front of the SUV, yelling at the driver to “Stop, stop the vehicle,” according to the complaint. The officer estimated the vehicle was moving at around 25 miles per hour at the time.
“Officer Butryn observed the driver looking straight ahead, directly at him, and it appeared he had no emotion on his face,” the complaint said.
The SUV passed Butryn, at which point he saw the vehicle increase in speed until it reached an intersection where it appeared to stop, the complaint said.
“The vehicle then appeared to rapidly accelerate, as Officer Butryn heard tires squeal,” the complaint read. “At this point, it was clear to Officer Butryn that this was an intentional act to strike and hurt as many people as possible.”
Butryn saw the vehicle driving in a zig-zag-like pattern, the complaint said, and saw “bodies and objects” flying.
“It was like the SUV was trying to avoid vehicles, not people. There was no attempt made by the vehicle to stop, much less slow down,” one witness told an officer, according to the complaint.
After witnessing the SUV running over people, another officer identified in the complaint as Officer Scholten shot at and struck the vehicle three times as it sped away. Authorities do not believe any shots were fired from the vehicle, Waukesha Police Chief Dan Thompson said Sunday.
Brooks sought help from a stranger
After Brooks allegedly fled the scene, he asked a stranger for assistance and stated he was homeless, according to a Waukesha resident.
Daniel Rider, 24, told CNN that he was unaware of what had happened Sunday when he heard the doorbell ring at his house.
A man — identified by authorities as Brooks — asked for Rider’s help, saying he was homeless and needed to borrow a phone to call an Uber. Rider said Brooks was not wearing shoes and only wearing a t-shirt on a cold day, so he said he believed him and allowed him into the home.
“He was pretty flustered,” Rider said of Brooks, but described him as polite during their encounter. Rider made Brooks a sandwich and let him borrow a jacket as he used his phone.
After a few minutes, Rider noticed police going up and down the street and had a feeling it was in relation to Brooks, so Rider asked him to step outside. As Brooks spoke on the phone, the two were outside when Rider said a nearby neighbor flagged him to the situation. Rider then went to Brooks and asked for his phone and jacket back, he said, and Brooks complied. Rider entered the home and then locked the door.
Shortly after, Brooks began “pounding on the door,” Rider said, claiming he left his ID inside. Rider refused and told him he would look for it. Moments later, police arrived and arrested Brooks.
Rider said Brooks had called his mother to have an Uber to pick him up. “Uber showed up maybe a minute after he was in custody,” Rider said. “So I just think about sometimes if he’d gotten in that car, what could have happened?”
Brooks’ bail has been set at $5 million following his initial court appearance Tuesday, with the judge citing potential flight risks.
Brooks had been out on bail after allegedly running over a woman who said she’s the mother of his child earlier this month, according to court documents.
6 people have died from injuries
On Monday, authorities identified five of the six people killed as Virginia Sorenson, 79; LeAnna Owen, 71; Tamara Durand, 52; Jane Kulich, 52; and Wilhelm Hospel, 81.
Another victim was identified Tuesday as Jackson Sparks, 8, according to the family’s verified GoFundMe page. It is not immediately clear if Jackson is the sixth parade death mentioned by prosecutors and confirmed by Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin.
“This afternoon, our dear Jackson has sadly succumbed to his injuries and passed away,” an update post to the page said Tuesday.
Two of the 16 children admitted to Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin were able to go home Monday, the hospital said in a statement. Three more children were sent home Wednesday, the hospital said. A total of 10 children remain hospitalized, with five in critical condition, two in fair condition and three in good condition, the statement said.
One of the injured, a firefighter’s son, has just been moved out of the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Intensive Care Unit, according to his father Don Tiegs.
Erick Tiegs was marching with Waukesha South High School Marching Band when he was struck by the SUV, according to a news release by Caledonia Firefighters Association.
“He has undergone surgery to repair a broken femur. He is still being treated for other injuries, including placement of a chest drainage tube, and is continuing to be assessed for any further complications. Unfortunately, he has a long road to recovery ahead of him,” read the release.
CNN’s Amir Vera, Holly Yan, Raja Razek, Joe Sutton, Jennifer Henderson, Claudia Dominguez and Dave Alsup contributed to this report.