Hero Shot By San Jose Police Might Obtain Up To $8M Settlement

[ad_1] by Kandiss Edwards December 28, 2025

Okay’aun Inexperienced's wounds have been severe sufficient to derail the younger man’s soccer profession.

San Jose officers think about approving an $8 million settlement in a federal excessive-force lawsuit introduced by Okay’aun Inexperienced, a university soccer participant who was shot 4 occasions by a San Jose police officer whereas disarming a gunman in March 2022.

The settlement advice, anticipated to be voted on by the San Jose Metropolis Council on Jan. 13, 2026, would rank because the second-largest police payout within the metropolis’s historical past if authorised. The determine is second to an $11.3 million settlement paid in 2014 to a paralyzed capturing sufferer, KTVU reported.

Inexperienced, now 24, was wounded on the steps of La Victoria Taqueria in 2022. Police responded to a report of a murder on the taco store. As they approached the scene, officers noticed him holding a gun he had taken from an assailant throughout a brawl.

Video surveillance circulated on-line confirmed that Inexperienced was making an attempt to depart the restaurant after disarming the opposite man. It was then that former San Jose officer Mark McNamara fired 4 photographs, placing Inexperienced within the abdomen, arm, and knee. Not one of the bullets induced catastrophic harm. Nonetheless, the injuries have been severe sufficient to derail the younger man’s soccer profession.

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Inexperienced’s authorized group rejected earlier makes an attempt by the town to invoke certified immunity to defend the officer from legal responsibility. The turning level within the litigation got here after San Jose’s police chief disclosed that McNamara had despatched racist textual content messages about Inexperienced. A selected textual content stating “I hate Black folks” held weight within the determination. Texts additionally reveal McNamara utilizing the n-word. Subsequently, McNamara resigned and several other of his earlier instances have been dismissed.

Metropolis Legal professional Susana Alcala admitted that the settlement comes because of a number of elements, not essentially as a result of the town believes they're rightfully accountable.

“The quantity of this settlement displays the inherent dangers of litigation. The settlement displays the dangers of litigation when the officer concerned was later discovered to have made reprehensible assertion evidencing racial animus, “Alcala mentioned. “It might be tough for jurors to disregard in analysis how an inexpensive officer would have reacted when Mr. Inexperienced emerged with a gun in his hand. In gentle of Mr. Inexperienced’s accidents and the duty to pay his lawyer’s charges if a jury present in his favor, the town believes the settlement. . .limits the town’s publicity.”

Because the capturing, Inexperienced has earned a full scholarship to the College of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and is on observe to develop into the primary faculty graduate in his household.

A federal decide dismissed Inexperienced’s lawsuit after a settlement convention in November, clearing the way in which for the town and plaintiff to resolve the matter with out trial, attorneys mentioned.

Metropolis officers, together with representatives for the San Jose Police Division, declined to remark past public statements relating to the settlement course of.