Bucks guard Brown agrees to $ 750,000 settlement over arrest

Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown and the Milwaukee city attorney have agreed to a revised $ 750,000 settlement of a lawsuit Brown filed after getting taken to the ground, shocked with a Taser and arrested during an encounter with police in 2018.

City Attorney Tear man Spencer is recommending the payment plus an admission that Brown’s constitutional rights were violated during the arrest that began with a parking violation outside a Walgreen’s store. Brown’s attorney signed the agreement on his behalf Friday. Spencer’s recommendation came in a letter sent to Milwaukee Common Council members. The settlement is subject to approval by the city; it wasn’t immediately clear when the council would take it up.

The Bucks said in a statement that “we are pleased that Sterling’s lawsuit has been mutually resolved and that there’s been an important commitment by the City of Milwaukee and its Police Department to make changes to the MPD’s standard operating procedures.”

Brown rejected the Milwaukee City Council’s original offer of $ 400,000 made in 2019. Brown’s attorney, Mark Thomsen, said at the time that any settlement without an admission of a civil rights violation would go nowhere.

Brown contends police used excessive force and targeted him because he is Black when they confronted him for parking illegally in a handicap spot. He was talking with officers while waiting for a citation before 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.