100%!
Posted on 08/12/2012 6:05:17 AM PDT by RummyChick
A powerful honcho at Deutsche Bank is suing the LAPD and the City of L.A. for millions of dollars -- we're told up to $100 mil -- for allegedly being forced into a motel room by cops and then beaten to a pulp.
Brian Mulligan, the Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Media and Telecommunications for the Bank, claims on May 15, he was in the L.A. suburb of Highland Park -- near a marijuana dispensary -- when he was approached by 2 LAPD officers.
We're told Mulligan claims the cops walked up to him and asked why he was in the area, and then proceeded to search both him and his car. Mulligan says the officers found a large amount of cash in the car -- thousands of dollars -- and then put him in a police car and drove to a nearby motel.
We're told Mulligan says the cops told him to stay in the room until they returned. He claims he waited several hours, but the cops never came back. He says he felt he was being set up to be robbed or killed, so he made a run for it. As he ran out, he says cops were right there and began beating him mercilessly.
Mulligan says he was taken to a hospital, where doctors treated him for 15 fractures to the nasal area, a broken scapula, and severe facial laceration to a point where he "barely looked human."
Mulligan was booked for resisting arrest and interfering with law enforcement.
The L.A. County D.A. declined to prosecute Mulligan and referred the case to the City Attorney where a lesser charge could be filed. But all indications are the City Attorney won't file a criminal case either.
Sources tell us Mulligan will file a claim next week against the LAPD and the City of L.A. -- something he's required to do before filing a lawsuit. We're told the lawsuit will demand $100 million.
The LAPD tells TMZ ... cops were in the area looking for a suspect who was jimmying car doors, and Mulligan matched the description. The LAPD says when they approached Mulligan, he seemed to be under the influence of something, but they determined he was sober. Cops say Mulligan told them he was tired and needed to sleep, so they took him to the motel as a courtesy.
A few hours later, cops got another call from someone who said a man matching Mulligan's description was jimmying car doors near the motel. When they approached him he charged the cops so they took him down.
We're told the LAPD is conducting an internal investigation, which is standard in major injury cases.
comments on TMZ keep bringing up the point..since when does LAPD take someone to a motel because they say they are tired.
And what kind of motel???????
Seedy , low rent, drug dealing motel or what????
I can’t figure out whether you forgot to put the “sarc” tag on your post or you’re crazier than all hell?
100%!
Obviously the corruptin in the LAPD is in the DNA and can’t be erased. Lower the standards get the worst.
Seems to me the cops were on the take and trying to get more than those few thousand.
“Appearances can reveal a lot about a personality. And what the hell was he doing out so late in a depressed neighborhood anyway?”
Sounds like a reasonable excuse for an assault...plus he didn’t have a dog with him that they could kill. Guess he was asking for it.
Hope they learn their lesson good and hard.
“I dunno”, said the officer, “When we asked how many cars he’d broken into, he confessed and kept saying, “nine, nine, nine” “.
This is still the United Staes of America. He doesn't need a reason.
Appearance is a solid reason to break somebody’s face 17 times? I sincerely hope you are not a police officer or in training to become one. Stories like this are the reason I strive to avoid all interaction with law enforcement personnel.
GREAT JOKE
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And even if what he did was illegal, then the proper response would have been to arrest him immediately, handcuff him and book him at jail instead of stashing him in a hotel room. Right now my bet is that it was a little "off the books" civil forfeiture with his cash and the cops wanted to keep him out of the way but without a paper trail.
“He doesn’t need a reason.”
Apparently you haven’t gotten the memo.
You're right, he looks weird. That makes all the difference, its perfectly acceptable for the Police to beat the snot out of anyone who looks weird. You don't have a right to look weird in this country, wouldn't you say.
This is still the United Staes of America. He doesn’t need a reason.
And even if what he did was illegal, then the proper response would have been to arrest him immediately, handcuff him and book him at jail instead of stashing him in a hotel room.
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The cops are simply following the lead of the President of the United States, the president doesent need a legeslative branch or judicial branch, he does all the jobs. The cops are now doing the same, they don’t need prisons, judges or juries, they can take care of all of it, so they do.
Until we starting treating cops that act as Judge, Jury and punishers as criminals and putting them in prison for a long time they will think it is ok to do these terrible things.
Even if the guy was there to buy dope it was not the job of the cops to punish him or judge him guilty of sometihg. You take him to a judge and let the court decide if he did something wrong or not. Innocent people go to jail all the time, they get out on bond, go to trial and are found innocent. They had the hasstle of having to defend themselves but were not “punished”. That is the way it is supposed to be in our society.
There is not much that is worse than a bad cop.
Maybe he went to the area to score some drugs. Doesn't matter. He wasn't doing anything but fitting a description. The cops (if entirely true) beat the crap out of him because he was there.
I usually stand on the side of police in any instance of brutality claims but I am sometimes very disappointed that I did.
I know the cops in my town take people to motels “as a courtesy” and the stand watch over them for several hours all the time. /s
The problem is that, by and large, these exceptional specimens are not drawn to the job. So in (far too) many cases, society is left with the kid who got picked on in high school, the megalomaniacs, the sadists, the bullies, the dorks who tried but failed to get into the military, and the insecure schmucks who don't feel adequate without a badge, a gun, and the ability to shoot you dead if they want to.
These untermensch will shoot your dog just because they can. They will immediately escalate any situation to critical mass in the hopes that they get to draw their taser, nightstick, or service sidearm.
They will lie like a Democrat (without provocation or need) just beacuse they can, and because it increases their sense of power and self-importance to do so. It reafirms how much "better" they are than the civilian scum they dispense their judgement upon.
Give me two minutes alone in a room with any of them. Please.
and prolly paid well too...
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