New footage shows more detail on how fast and how close the shooting unfolded.
SAN JOSE — Newly released police body-camera and security video reveal a new level of detail about a brawl inside a downtown taqueria and the police shooting that rapidly unfolded after K’aun Green backed out the front door holding a handgun taken from a man he and his friend were fighting.
The additional footage was publicly posted Tuesday in an edited video package from the San Jose Police Department that included a summary of the department’s in-progress investigation of the March 27 shooting at the La Victoria restaurant near San Jose State University. The police compilation also publicly names the officer who shot Green: Mark McNamara, a four-year member of SJPD. Security video from inside the restaurant, compiled by police, shows a man appearing to start a fight with Green by throwing a punch at the former McClymonds High School star quarterback. Green then rushes the man and takes him to the ground before landing several punches to his head. Seconds later, a man who police identified as 30-year-old Bryan Carter brandishes a handgun — prompting dozens of patrons to rush out of the restaurant — but Green’s friend wraps up Carter and attempts to take control of the weapon. Green then gets up and helps his friend take the handgun away from Carter, with Green taking sole possession of the firearm. Edited by Bay Area News Group to elucidate the handgun in the footage. Surveillance video released by San Jose Police captured Brian Carter brandishing a handgun, which K’aun Green wrested from him, before officer Mark McNamara shot Green four times at La Victoria Taqueria in San Jose, Calif., on March 27, 2022. At one point, the magazine of the handgun falls to the ground, and Green is seen loading it back into the gun. The struggle between the two pairs of men comes to a standstill that includes some light grappling between Green’s friend and Carter. Green is later shown walking backwards toward the front door as Carter and the man who Green fought continue walking after him, seeming to grab at the handgun, which Green is now holding up in the air in his left hand. Body-camera excerpts released for the first time show the vantage points of two officers who were walking up the steps leading to the restaurant and positioned behind McNamara, who is the front-most officer. A combination of security footage pointed directly at the officers, and audio from the body-camera videos, show that McNamara and other officers yelled at Green to drop the gun. Green still has his back to the officers as he exits the door, still fending off the two men trying to retake the gun. He turns slightly toward the officers and it appears that once he recognizes them he shows his hands, but by that point McNamara fires four shots in quick succession. The bullets hit Green twice in his left arm, once in his left knee, and once in his abdomen. Green was hospitalized after the shooting. Carter was arrested that day on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm, police said. In the days after the shooting, San Jose police Chief Anthony Mata defended his officers, saying they had no way of knowing about Green’s role in the fight or how he got the handgun. Mata added that they were responding strictly to the sight of the gun a few feet from where they were standing and what they said was Green’s refusal to drop the firearm. Mata added that officers had rushed over to the restaurant from a crime scene a few hundred feet away involving a fatal shooting, and feared that the shooter might be inside the restaurant after seeing “frantic customers fleeing” and saying someone had a gun. In the police video package, Sgt. Christian Camarillo emphasizes how Green broke the orbital bone of the man he was punching. Officers did not know that when they approached the restaurant, however. Green and his attorney, who have filed a federal civil-rights and excessive-force lawsuit against the city and McNamara, contend that Green was given no time to comply with officers’ orders before McNamara opened fire.Crime and Public Safety |Antioch police ID four cops who shot and wounded homicide suspect; one had spent just 4 days on the job “In all honesty I’m in pain. I’m hurting inside and out,” the 20-year-old Oakland resident said during a. “They treated me like a criminal even though I saved my friend’s life … I never thought I would be in this position, never did anything to put myself in this position.” Adanté Pointer, Green’s attorney, said Tuesday that the footage shows that his client didn’t point the gun at the police and the gun was out of his hands by the time he had been shot. “To me, it just proves the point that we’ve been making all along: K’aun is a hero and he did not deserve to be shot,” Pointer said. “This was the first time the police admit without any kind of fluff that Mr. Green didn’t bring the gun into the taqueria. We were happy to hear the police admit that but we still don’t see any apology; we don’t hear any words wishing him a speedy recovery or well wishes for him to reclaim the life he once enjoyed.”San Jose Police Chief, attorney give dueling accounts of police shooting that wounded man after restaurant brawl Among the damages claimed in the lawsuit is the potential end of Green’s college and professional football aspirations; he was attending Contra Costa College and was fielding offers to play linebacker or defensive end at Fresno State and other West Coast colleges. “It’s still surreal to me, it just hurts to know I can’t play football this year, I’m going to try my hardest to make a comeback,” Green said last week.Dear Abby: I just wanted to sit in their house for a few hours, and they wouldn’t let me inHarriette Cole: I'm seeing a huge red flag in my new marriageThousands of planned homes could vanish as 'builder's remedy' sweeps Bay Area citiesPhotos: Ex-49ers QB Trey Lance selling Morgan Hill mansion for $2.9MHarriette Cole: All the doors were locked, but there she was in my kitchenSouthern California has 33 of priciest US ZIPs for homes
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