Insane jumps to conclusions and fantasy-level speculation continue to fill the pages of both kiwi and here. Everyone's pretending the city is playing hardball and PWNing Pat ("it's like the city's lawyers are harry and pat's lawyers are voldemort!") when they continue to do the absolute. bare. minimum. and a fucking dogshit job.
Besides that one answer in response to Plaintiffs that Pig was drunk and rude to the officers, they have presented
nothing. They've responded to Plaintiffs claims confirm/denying and other than those one-word answers have NEVER argued ANYTHING to judge of why Pig is full of shit. Instead of disemboweling Pig's ridiculous claims and exposing how he disregarded all advice, had insane tantrums at cops, never tried to work out a system with the MPD, and was likely involved in placing the calls himself, they've just said "no u" & "qualified immunity" and not a peep else.
Both the joint briefs to the judge were OBVIOUSLY written by Odell. Not only did the city attorneys let him get away with such biased language, but
serial loser Hotchkiss filed the first, more horrendous one in his name despite clearly not writing it. Hats off to Team Pig for pulling a fast one here. They managed to turn yet another boring joint extension request into a 3-page ramble about how terrible MPD is and how Pat should be given a huge judgement and made the MPD/City's lawyer file it. The judge is going to see this as the city agreeing that Plaintiff's claims have merit. Frankly, why wouldn't he!? The city has let Pig's lawyers run the show this entire suit with no pushback.
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Based on these motions it looks like the city's goal here is to merely save the individual MPD officers from legal action and then give Ricky a fat chunk of change. Reminder to all that Maria Mesoloras has zero experience (was a public defender her whole career until a year ago) and, more glarily, William Hotchkiss has represented the city in several prior lawsuits concerning MPD actions and every single one of them has ended in a settlement. This includes several where Odell was representing the plaintiffs. Milwaukee is nigger city and politicians would rather just give pig some tax money (it's not like it's theirs they're burning) than dedicate any resources to fighting. It is what it is.