Former San Jose police officer Mark McNamara, who resigned in early November as racist text messages emerged, had his private stockpile of weapons confiscated at the time due to a restraining order for allegedly threatening to shoot a Black lawyer, according to new reporting by the Mercury News.
McNamara, who joined the force in 2017, had an arsenal of 18 firearms taken away last month amid an ongoing civil investigation into a March 2022 shooting in which McNamara wounded a Black man at a Mexican restaurant in downtown San Jose, according to court documents filed last month.
Under the terms of the probe, McNamara can’t get his guns back until May 2024.
The officer resigned on Nov. 1, two days before the “disgusting” text messages came to light, while the restraining order against McNamara was ordered on Nov. 6, the Mercury News reports.
One of the text messages that prompted the order was sent to attorney Adanté Pointer — who is representing 21-year-old K’aun Green, a junior college football player who filed the civil action after McNamara and other officers shot him several times.
The text messages, meanwhile, led to the dismissal of another unnamed San Jose officer and internal discipline for a third officer who was placed on administrative leave.
One of the messages sent by McNamara was filled with expletives and included casual usage of the N-word.
“The other day this n— lawyer is like Mr. McNamara, you know we can still find you guilty of excessive force right? I’m like, hmmm yeah then (what) happens?? … Think I give a f— what y’all n— think?!???? I’ll shoot you too!!!!!” McNamara wrote after giving a deposition shooting Green.
Pointer has not commented publicly on the matter since the text messages were released to the public on Nov. 3 as a result of a separate internal investigation into McNamara, but officials have so far kept a tight lid on the details of the separate probe.
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