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.
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A few hours later, cops say they got ANOTHER call from someone who said a man matching Mulligan's description was in traffic, trying to open people's car doors. When cops approached him, they say Mulligan "took a fighting stance" and charged the officers, so they took him down.
I like the cops version - he looked tired so we took him to a motel. Then we got a call that the same guy we determined wasn't robbing cars before, really was the guy. He hopped out of the motel that we had taken him to (somehow he got back in there after being noticed again robbing cars in the interim) and was about to beat us senseless with his bare hands, so we had to render his face into ground round.
The city needs to look deep within a mirror to figure out the truth here. A thug with a badge is a betrayal, like a molester posing as a priest or teacher.
Any bets on the recording of that call getting lost?