Brian Mulligan gruesome Los Angeles police beating photo goes public
A gruesome photo of former Fox TV chairman Brian Mulligan's beaten and bloody face is raising new questions about his bizarre confrontation with Los Angeles cops last May.
The image, obtained by TMZ.com, shows the Hollywood honcho with a busted nose, two black eyes, blood trickling out of his nostrils and facial abrasions.
"His nose was fractured in 15 separate spots. They did emergency surgery that night because they worried some of those fractures might float into his brain," Mulligan's lawyer J. Michael Flanagan told the Daily News Monday...
According to Mulligan, he was minding his own business the night of May 14 when police mistook him for a suspect going berserk near a fast food restaurant in Eagle Rock.
He claims police searched him, found at least $2,500 in his car and then took him to a nearby motel where they told him to stay put with the cash.
"It was against his will. This was some fleabag motel. He lives (about 10 miles away) in La Canada Flintridge," Flanagan said.
Worried he'd become bait in a sting operation, Mulligan bolted, and that's when officers attacked him, Flanagan said.
Police tell a different story, saying they got at least two calls that night saying a crazed man fitting Mulligan's description was trying to break into cars at a Jack in the Box drive-through.
Officers encountered Mulligan nearby, and he allegedly told them he was high on marijuana and "White Lightning," a bath salt, and hadn't slept for days, a police report obtained by CBS News states....
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