Vegas Cops Have Video of Saints’ Kamara Savagely Beating Man

The New Orleans Saints should be thinking “running back” in their preparation for the 2022 NFL draft. After brutally beating a Las Vegas man Saturday night, Alvin Kamara is their star runner. While he might not be sentenced to a long term ban, it is likely that he will receive one. In fact, his merciless attack was caught on video, as was former Baltimore Ravens’ running back Ray Rice’s knockout punch of his fiancée in 2014.

Kamara was caught on video punching Darnell Greene eight times. Kamara’s friends stomped on him several times as he lay unconscious on the floor. According to police reports, Greene sustained an orbital fracture in his right eye as well as other injuries.

Kamara participated in the NFL Pro Bowl the next day. After the game, Las Vegas police questioned him, arrested him on a battery charge resulting in substantial bodily harm and took him to jail. The bail amount was $5,000. Given the horrific crime he was convicted of, this bail seems outrageously small. Rice’s crime ended his career. Kamara’s crime hasn’t reached that point yet, but that should strongly be considered by the National “Felons’’ League.

Additionally, police said Greene’s description matched Kamara’s appearance.

ESPN reported the victim said he engaged in conversation with a woman waiting for the elevator as he was leaving the Cromwell Casino at Drais After Dark Club. When the elevator door opened, the man attempted getting on but Kamara (a later identified) stopped him from physically touching the victim’s chest. Greene said he attempted to remove Kamara’s hand from his chest, but the 215-pound football player pushed him backwards, causing him to stumble.

That’s when Kamara’s punching and the other people’s stomping began, causing Greene to lose consciousness.

Video of the victim talking to Kamara. Kamara pushes the victim and other punches his face. “Then Kamara lunged toward the man and punched him approximately eight times — including three times after he had fallen to the ground,” ESPN reported. He was struck in the chest, face and legs with three different people. “One of Kamara’s associates stomped him about 16 times, according to the police report.”

After arriving on site, security staff escorted violent Kamara groups out of the casino. The arrest of the out-of control Kamara took a while because the victim required treatment before making a statement.

Kamara claims Greene insulted a friend and threatened to harm another. He also claimed the man was trying to get away, “so he chased him and punched him several times.” The video demonstrates the victim did not attempt to run away. Kamara was arrested after Kamara had been read Miranda Rights.

Mike Florio, of NBC’s Pro Football Talk, said Kamara “could be in extra-deep trouble with the league over this. It’s one thing for a player to run afoul of the law on his own time. Kamara visited Las Vegas to conduct NFL business. While he was technically doing his own thing a day before the game, the league surely won’t take kindly to a player being involved in this kind of thing while in Las Vegas for a league event. … Kamara definitely has a problem, both with the authorities and with the authority of the Commissioner.”

This is no time for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to go wobbly, as he initially wanted to do with Ray Rice eight years ago. Rice was fired by the Ravens, and he has never been back in the league. Goodell needs to throw the book at Kamara, the league’s 2017 Offensive Rookie Of the Year and now the league’s most offensive thug.

The public must be protected from the brutal NFL and violent NFL athletes.