The Common Council voted Wednesday to authorize the Milwaukee city attorney to offer a $400,000 settlement to Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown, who filed a lawsuit after Milwaukee police stunned him with a Taser over a parking violation last year.

The offer, first floated in a city resolution in May, appears unlikely to produce a settlement.

“I fully anticipate that any settlement that doesn't include an admission that they violated Mr. Brown's civil rights will go nowhere,” Brown's attorney Mark Thomsen said after the Common Council vote. “We can't heal in this city without that.”

He said the $400,000 approved is not sufficient and undervalues the insult inflicted on Brown. He hasn't talked with Brown about a specific sum.

Thomsen said the case is in the midst of depositions and there are "many more" to take.

There was "no doubt" he was prepared to go to a jury trial, if necessary, he said.

Thomsen also criticized police for not releasing the videos of the incident sooner, which he said subjected Brown to an undue storm of criticism online.

The measure passed the Judiciary and Legislation Committee 4-1 and the Common Council 12-2 with one abstention Wednesday. The committee, which all council members attended, debated the measure in closed session before coming into open session for the vote.

Common Council President Ashanti Hamilton said after the council vote that he wants the city's residents to know and understand that these types of engagements with the police department will not be tolerated by the city.

Ald. Mark Borkowski, who chairs the committee, was the lone vote against the measure at committee and voted against it at council as well. He said afterward that he didn't think he could justify the offer to his constituents.

"$400,000 is a lot of money, I recognize that it could be much, much more," he said. "But, again, I just felt in the best interests of my constituents that I'd vote against it.”

Ald. Cavalier Johnson, who voted for the measure, said he felt the committee took appropriate action.

"It was a tough case and the city had to take action," he said.

Brown's federal civil rights lawsuit, filed last year, seeks damages for the conduct of Milwaukee police during the incident on Jan. 26, 2018. The lawsuit claims wrongful arrest and excessive force.

The officers were confrontational with Brown from the beginning of the interaction, police body camera video showed.

About 2 a.m., an officer doing a business check at the Walgreens near West National Avenue and South 26th Street stopped to question Brown about his car, which was parked across two handicap spots. That officer called for assistance, and the situation got increasingly tense as more officers arrived.

Officers threw Brown to the ground and stunned him with a Taser, video shows.

Brown was never charged or cited. Police Chief Alfonso Morales fired Officer Erik Andrade over mocking social media posts he made in the aftermath of Brown's tasing.

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