Desmond Carter, 21, who is charged for gang raping Madison Brooks, is raising concerns that her family wearing the color pink—her favorite color.
Brooks, 19, was gang raped in 2023, just minutes before she was fatally hit by a car. Carter is now asking that all of her supporters be banned from wearing her favorite color because the creates a “carnival atmosphere.”
Carter’s lawyers pointed to several social media posts of supporters encouraging people to attend court sessions wearing the color pink to ensure Carter spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Prosecutor Sonya Cardia-Porter, who has asked the motion be denied, called the allegations an “absurd exaggeration” and “unpersuasive,” describing Brooks’ supporters as “silent, passive spectators wearing a particular color.”
Cardia-Porter asked the judge to instruct the jury to “disregard any attire or display from spectators.”
Brooks, was a sophomore, who was raped in the backseat of a car by Carter, who was 17 at the time—but being tried as an adult—Kaivon Washington, 21, and Casen Carver, 22 after the group left Reggie’s bar in East Baton Rouge where Brooks worked and they had been drinking heavily in Jan. 2023.
The defendants have claimed that the encounter was consensual before they left her on the side of a roadway.
Carter currently faces charges of first-degree and third-degree rape.
Footage from the car shows Brooks arguing with her alleged attackers before she stumbled out of the car.
Investigators said Brooks had a blood-alcohol content of 0.319%—nearly four times the legal limit—when she stumbled onto the busy road.
The East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Office concluded that Brooks died from “traumatic injuries” after she was raped.
Giving him a trial is already too clement.
This reggin is lucky not to be lynched in the cell.