We compared Milwaukee police reports on Sterling Brown's arrest with the video. They don't match.
On body camera video, Milwaukee Bucks rookie Sterling Brown appears to show very little — if any — resistance to Milwaukee police before he is tased outside a drugstore on the city's south side.
Draft police reports offer a much different account.
The reports, recently obtained by the Journal Sentinel, describe Brown as "aggressive" and detail the initial explanations officers gave for their actions.
In the past, such incidents often resulted in a battle for credibility, with police saying one thing and the person they've arrested saying another. Witness cellphone video, squad cameras and police body cameras have changed that.
Police have always mistreated African-American men, but access to recordings has brought the problem more into the public eye, Brown said in an interview with the Journal Sentinel.
"It's become more visible nowadays now that technology has advanced," he said. "It's something that happens all the time, but now it's becoming more, you know, public and viral."
Police Chief Alfonso Morales released 30 minutes of video from the body camera of officer Joseph Grams, the first officer to confront the NBA guard. In a statement to reporters, Morales said officers "acted inappropriately."
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