Bailey immediately called Captain Mark Witek (“Witek”),
commander of the Airport Division of the Milwaukee County Sherriff’s
Office, to relay the information he had just received from Clarke.
Separately, Clarke sent a text message to Witek instructing him to have
deputies conduct a field interview of Black after the plane landed. Before
the plane arrived in Milwaukee, Witek told Deputies Steven Paull
(“Paull”) and Jeffrey Hartung (“Hartung”) that there was an individual on
Clarke’s flight that had possibly harassed him, and that the deputies were
to conduct a field interview of that individual to identify him and obtain
basic information.
After the plane landed, Clarke exited the plane, entered the
concourse at Gate D54, and walked up to several waiting Milwaukee
County Sheriff’s Office personnel. Witek, Sergeant James Sajdowitz
(“Sajdowitz”), Deputy Karen Mills (“Mills”), and Mills’ canine were there
to greet Clarke as part of standard procedure for the sheriff’s airport
arrival. Paull and Hartung were there solely for the field interview. Clarke
stayed in the gate area with the other Sheriff’s Office personnel until Black
exited the plane and entered the concourse. Clarke identified Black to
Witek, Paull, and Hartung and then left the gate area with Witek,
Sajdowitz, and Mills.
Paull and Hartung approached Black and said they needed to
speak with him about an incident with Clarke on the plane. A brief
segment of security footage from the gate area shows that the deputies did
not use physical force when confronting Black. (Docket #22-10). They
walked with him to an open area at the center of Concourse D, near an
Amendment analysis.”); Tebbens v. Mushol, 692 F.3d 807, 816 (7th Cir. 2012)
(subjective intent of officers is irrelevant to inquiry into the nature of detention).
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