Surveillance Video of Biker Shooting Leaked

KCEN-TV ^ | July 10, 2015

[don-o]

Surveillance video from the Twin Peaks shooting has been leaked.

The video from Don Carlos, the restaurant next door to Twin Peaks, was obtained by KCEN late Friday afternoon through an anonymous email sent to various local and national media outlets. The email contained a web link and a password to a section of www.brodenmickelsen.com, the law firm of Clint Broden who represents Matthew Clendennen, a local biker arrested in the shooting. The password takes you to a YouTube page for the law firm.

KCEN notified Mr. Broden of the email and password late this afternoon, and hours later, access to the site was still not denied. The hour-and-a-half long video shows people running, then cops approaching Twin Peaks and crouching behind cars in the Don Carlos parking lot. There was no audio.

Both Mr. Broden and McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna said they could not comment on the video because to do so would be a violation of a gag order in the case.

In an email Friday evening regarding a motion to be filed Monday to no longer subpoena the video from Don Carlos since the restaurant had already complied, Broden explains that unlike the surveillance video from the Twin Peaks restaurant, the video from Don Carlos restaurant was not under a protective order. Broden also stated he made the video password protected just to be cautious and only shared it with other biker's attorneys.

A link to the full 90-minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpPNX4PHKVQ

[don-o]

Background to origin of the video

[USNBandit]

I thought this video was in possession of the government? At least when the Don Carlos lawyers filed for relief from the Broden subpoena, that's what they said.

Regardless of the facts in the case, if Broden got the video through the court and then posted it to YouTube in violation of the gag order, things could get interesting in court.

There wasn't a whole lot on the video. Doesn't really show much other than some guys in cuts running to a vehicle, somebody down behind the car on the left, and some police moving around. Can't even tell if they were shooting.

[don-o]

The Twin Peaks video was the one in question and on which the gag order was applied.

I have lost track for a couple days (tree fell on my house) but, last I knew, there the Don Carlos lawyers had applied to quash a subpoena for their video.

Perhaps others can fill in my gaps.

[Cboldt]

I haven't found the Don Carlos motion, but I think the facts are that the state has the original, and Don Carlos has a copy.

Don Carlos motion requests a gag order (if the court were to grant Broden the evidence), but the motion hasn't been heard and decided, so no gag order presently exists over video from Don Carlos.

It appears to me that Don Carlos decided it was easier to comply with the subpoena than to fight it, and that compliance doesn't harm their civil claim against Twin Peaks.

[G Larry]

The field of view for this video isn’t very helpful.

[Dusty Road]

“The field of view for this video isn’t very helpful.”

Yes but if the police was firing on the crowd then why was the crowd running in the direction the police approached from?

[don-o]

But it does raise the question of what more is there to be seen.

[Texas Fossil]

A lot of police from a very small field of view. Lots of rifles, but we are told that only 3 fired a total of 12 rounds. (I’m sceptical)

It is also telling that only 4 bikers remain in jail.

And it took 2 months and finally state of Texas oversight began to force judges to begin to release suspects. Headshake