Global Courant 2023-05-16 18:27:52
The San Francisco District Attorney has released surveillance video showing a Walgreens security guard fatally shooting an alleged shoplifter in late April.
The release of the footage showing the events leading up to Banko Brown’s death comes as District Attorney Brooke Jenkins reiterated Monday that she will not charge the incident’s security guard, identified as Michael-Earl Wayne Anthony, after she failed to charge. could find evidence to refute his “reasonable self-defense claim in court.”
“With the video with no sound, no audio, it’s hard to have context for what’s going on, so we have to listen to the guard’s statement, the witness statements and everything else to look at the full picture of what’s going on. incident,” Jenkins said Monday, while also releasing police data on the April 27 shooting.
“I would also like to remind everyone that as prosecutors it is our job to make sure we can prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt to 12 jurors. That is the standard of proof when we make an indictment decision,” she added. “And in this case, we had to decide whether or not we had enough evidence to prove this case to 12 jurors beyond a reasonable doubt. It was our conclusion that we had no such evidence and that’s why we came to this decision.” currently.”
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Michael-Earl Wayne Anthony and Banko Brown got into a physical fight at the Walgreens at 901 Market Street on April 27. (San Francisco District Attorney)
The footage begins with Anthony standing at the door of the Walgreens before confronting Brown, who appears to be trying to leave the store while clutching a bag of supplies.
The pair then engage in a physical battle, and Anthony can be seen throwing punches at Brown.
Anthony is later seen holding Brown to the floor as customers walk in and out of the store. After releasing her, she stands up, grabs her bag and walks out of the shop before turning around and appearing to gesture to Anthony.
That’s when Anthony fired a shot at Brown, causing her to fall backwards on the sidewalk outside.
Brown, 24, was taken to a hospital and died from gunshot wounds.
In a police report released Monday, Anthony told investigators Brown said, “I’m going to stab you! I’m going to stab you–!” during battle.
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Anthony appears to have a gun in his hand at the moment before Brown was shot. (San Francisco District Attorney)
“She looked like she was about to leave, but then she turned back to me. I didn’t know what her intention was at the time, but it turned out that her intention was to spit on me…by turning her and as I advanced, I raised my rifle and fired once,” the report added, citing Anthony.
“I didn’t want to end any life. That was not my intention. I just wanted to stop the threat,” Anthony said, according to police.
While Anthony kept Brown on the ground, a witness who police said had “a clear view of the incident from start to finish” told police they heard Brown say “let me go and I’ll go one-on-one with you fight” before Anthony responded “I’ll let you go if you calm the bastard down.”
But San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton said in a statement Monday that the video shows no justification for the shooting. He, along with board chairman Aaron Peskin, plans to appeal to the attorney general for an independent review of the prosecution’s decision.
San Francisco Attorney General Brooke Jenkins is not pursuing charges in the case. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Brown, who struggled with homelessness according to The Associated Press, worked as a community organizer for the Young Women’s Freedom Center, a nonprofit organization that provides support to young women and trans youth.
“We don’t have to see the video to know that Banko Brown’s murder was unjustified. Gun violence is not a justifiable answer to poverty,” Julia Arroyo, the center’s co-executive director, said in a statement Monday. “We have to live with the sobering reality that (she) was murdered for no other reason than $14.”
Louis Casiano of Fox News and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.
