Green is now recovering after being shot in the abs, an arm, and a leg. His lawyer says at this point they plan to file a lawsuit and bring this case in front of a jury.
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The lawyer for a man shot by a San Jose Police officer says his client was a hero who was treated like a criminal and is now recovering in the hospital.
Pointer says his client, 20-year-old Kaun Green, who is a football player for Contra Costa City College, was eating at La Victoria Taqueria near San Jose State University with a friend early Sunday. He was approached and threatened by someone who was part of a group. Another person in that group had a gun and a brawl broke out.Surveillance video released by police shows the may lay. Police confirm that Green disarmed the man with the gun, but say officers responding didn't know that.
"Officers gave repeated commands to drop the gun, however the individual does not drop the gun and one officer shot more than one time striking the individual," said San Jose Police Chief Anthony Mata. In any shooting investigation, we invariably learn more tomorrow than we know today, so let’s refrain from jumping to conclusions until the investigation’s completion. In the meantime, we can all agree that this is a tragic conflation of circumstances: 1/3The chief says officers had been searching for a homicide suspect in a case that had just happened a few hundred feet away. He says commands were clearly given to Green, but he did not drop the gun."The officers were walking up the stairs.
Green is now recovering after being shot in the abs, an arm, and a leg. Pointer says at this point they plan to file a lawsuit and bring this case in front of a jury.San Jose police say they found out that the man they shot, was not the one who brought the gun.Mata explained more about what the officer who shot knew and didn't know leading to the shooting.
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