New video of NBA’s Sterling Brown arrest shows cop standing on his ankle and singing

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While the body cam footage filmed back in January proved that there was foul play when police arrested Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown, new body cam video released shows an officer stepped on Sterling’s ankle as he lay helpless on the ground, reports the Journal Sentinel.

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“All this, for what?” Brown asked OfficerJames Collins as he stood on his right ankle.

“You’re stepping on my ankle, for what?”

“So you don’t kick us,” one of the officers answered.

“I ain’t got no reason to kick y’all, man,” Brown replied.

Then the officer asked if Brown played for the NBA.

“What you think? I look familiar, don’t I?” Brown said.

“I remember the name,” the officer said.

The officers proceeded to taunt Brown. One started singing, “Money, money, money, money!”

Then an officer admitted to an attempt to cover things up because of the possibility of backlash. An officer asked why more police were on the way, he replied:

“We’re trying to protect ourselves.”

“Because he plays for the Bucks, if he makes a complaint, it’s going to be a media firestorm,” the sergeant said.

Sterling Brown was assaulted and arrested by police over an alleged parking violation and the body cam footage shows the NBA player being tasered by cops.

Milwaukee police chief Alfonso Morales issued a statement explaining that the officers involved have been “disciplined.”

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“During the encounter, Mr. Brown was decentralized, tased and arrested,” Milwaukee police chief Alfonso Morales said in a statement, according to the Washington Post‘s Cindy Boren. “The department conducted an investigation which revealed members acted inappropriately, and those members were recently disciplined.”

But apparently not fired.

So far 11 Milwaukee police officers will be disciplined or retrained. Sgt. Sean Mahnkewas suspended for 15 days; Sgt. Jeffrey Krueger was suspended for 10 days; and Officer Joseph Grams received a two-day suspension.