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Milwaukee mulls $400K offer to Bucks player to settle suit

By: Associated Press//May 31, 2019//

Milwaukee mulls $400K offer to Bucks player to settle suit

By: Associated Press//May 31, 2019//

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — The city of Milwaukee wants to offer the Bucks guard Sterling Brown $400,000 to settle his lawsuit alleging that police used excessive force when they used a stun gun to arrest him over a parking violation.

The Journal Sentinel reports that the city’s Common Council has scheduled a vote on June 10 to decide whether to extend the offer. City attorneys are asking officials to authorize it.

Brown filed a federal lawsuit last year that also accuses police of targeting him because he’s black. There’s no indication that Brown would accept such an offer.

Brown illegally parked in a spot for disabled people outside a Walgreens on Jan. 26, 2018, and was talking with a group of officers while waiting for his citation when the situation escalated. Officers took him down and used a stun gun because he didn’t immediately remove his hands from his pockets, as ordered.

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