Milwaukee On Edge As Video Of NBA Player’s Arrest Is On Verge Of Release

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee police are poised to release body camera footage Wednesday from the officers who used a stun gun on NBA Bucks guard Sterling Brown during a January arrest.

The release comes as city officials who’ve viewed the videos have expressed concern about how officers conducted themselves. Even leaders of the police department have hinted the video may make them look bad.

Bucks guard Sterling Brown talks about how “a simple parking ticket turned into an attempt at police intimidation, followed by the unlawful use of physical force, including being handcuffed and tased, and then unlawfully booked.” pic.twitter.com/wPMhZfS4iU

— Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpearsESPN) May 23, 2018

Brown was arrested in a Walgreens parking lot about 2 a.m. Jan. 26. Officers had been checking on a vehicle parked across two handicap spaces. Brown was not charged. Police have shown the body-camera footage to some local officials, including a closed session of a Common Council committee.

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