Senior Executive at Deutsche Bank Brutalized By LAPD Files Claim for $50 Million

LOS ANGELES -  Bankers are beginning to get beat down in the United States! But no, it is not due to a grassroots uprising. Instead, it is due to the immense police state that the United States is becoming. Americans don’t know who to fear most: bankers or cops.  Brian Mulligan, the senior executive who specializes in film and television deals for the Federal Reserve insured, Too Big Too Fail Deutsche Bank, claims that on the night May 15, he was kidnapped and held in a motel before beaten as he tried to escape.  Mr. Mulligan believes that the police officers were going Ultra-Banana Republic style, looking to steal the $5,000 he was holding.

It’s not everyday somebody who is schmoozing with welfare-made millionaires in banking and entertainment gets a potent dose of state-force. Los Angeles has been turned into a fortress over the last thirty years as the War on Drugs was rolled out like a bulldozer on US streets. LA is a fortress, as public space has been militarized and the police department has been outfitted as if it might have to one day deal with a real-life Terminator or Blade Runner.

The LAPD spokesman claims that officers responded to citizen complaints about Mulligan’s erratic behavior, where after they, out of the passionate benevolence of boots-and-triggers,  drove the banker to a hotel and not a hospital after Mulligan is said to have said he was tired.  If Mulligan claimed fatigue, why not take him to his home or to the hospital? Why to “a” hotel? LAPD claims they only subdued and arrested Mulligan after he attacked officers. The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office says it has yet to decide whether to file charges against Mulligan.

As managing director and vice chairman at Deutsche Bank, 53-year old Mulligan has been close to the Hollywood scene for more than a decade. Mulligan finances film and television projects that can be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He previously served as chairman of Fox Television for nine months in 2001. Before that, he was co-chairman of Universal Pictures and chief financial officer of its then-parent, Seagram Co.

The story reads like a bizarre suspense thriller, in which the mechanisms of the state get brought down on one of its own.  It’s collateral damage. A sacrifice of sorts is Mulligan. However, in this game of banker sacrifice, the banker who lives gets out alive with a $50 million lawsuit.

As yet, the police report has not been made available to the public, for the LAPD are conducting their own investigation into the officers’ use of force. The department says this is routine everytime the LAPD overpower and injure somebody during an arrest or in police custody. According to Mulligan’s lawyer, two police officers interfered with Mulligan’s evening by stopping him on a sidewalk 10 miles from his home. They searched Mr. Mulligan’s car, according to the banker’s lawyer, and found $5,000 in cash. They detained Mulligan and drove him to a motel. He was told to check in, and that he would be killed if he tried to escape.

After a couple of hours, Mulligan left the hotel. He was discovered by the officers who then beat him. Bones in his face were broken and other serious injuries were caused. Mulligan claims to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder from the beating. Mulligan has hired bodyguards and has finally learned to be afraid of the LAPD.

The LAPD says Mulligan was trying to get into cars with passengers at a Jack-in-the-Box drive-thru, though he was not thought to be under the influence of narcotics. LAPD admits to having taken Mulligan to a Highland Park Motel, because the banker was tired and “asked to be taken to a hotel to rest.” The same police officers then saw Mulligan, a few hours later, running through traffic and once again trying to get into occupied vehicles, the  spokesman said.  The officer ordered him to stop and Mulligan attacked them. He was arrested.

The officers are said to have taken note of the $5,000. They called in a supervisor because the $5,000 obviously seemed suspicious in a country where the wealth of the people LAPD encounters has been stolen.  For Mulligan, carrying around that sort of cash is normal during business travel. The cash absent the American people can be found in the accounts of some of Mulligan’s colleagues and cronies.

As an American, I am dumbfounded as to who to believe. the Los Angeles Police Department is a repressive regime, known over the decades as a paramilitary outfit in the United States. Deutsche Bank is one of the international banks which took TARP funds – in other words, partook directly in the largest wealth confiscation in history, gutting the United States taxpayer. I would not be surprised if the LAPD tried to steal $5,000 in green-folding cash or if a banker got caught running insanely through the streets as if he owned the place.