A couple weeks back, Deutsche Bank vice chairman and managing director Brian Mulligan filed a claim with the city of Los Angeles, letting people know he intended to sue for $50 million over an incident that took place involving the LAPD, which left the media banker with “a broken shoulder blade and 15 nasal fractures.” According to Mulligan, police officers abducted him from a street corner, drove him to a motel, told him to wait there for a few hours, and then beat him so “ruthlessly” he “barely looked human” when they were done. According the LAPD, several calls had been placed about a man in the area “trying to break into cars” that fit Mulligan’s description. They confronted the guy, who told them he was tired, which was why they drove him to the motel. He emerged hours later, started running through traffic, failed to heed their orders to get out of the street and assumed a “fighting stance,” hence the need to deal with him in an aggressive fashion. At the time, a spokesman for the LA County DA’s office said that there are no plans to file criminal charges and that the office would simply like to “have a discussion” with Mulligan to advise him on “how best to follow the law so that incidents like this don’t occur again.” Also, they’d like you to know, it’s possible he was experimenting with bath salts. Read more »