New court documents revealed a lengthy collection of racist text messages showing a former San Jose officer candidly using the N-word and condemning a civil rights lawsuit brought against him by a Black man he shot last year.
Former officer Mark McNamara was sued for shooting college football player K’Aun Green last March after Green had broken up a fight inside a restaurant. Three drunken men reportedly jumped him and one of them pulled out a ghost gun. Green wrestled the gun away from the man and tried to back out of the restaurant to keep other customers safe while keeping the gun away from the men who attacked him.
McNamara shot 22-year-old Green four times after officers arrived. Police initially thought he was connected to a homicide that happened less than a mile from the restaurant that they were investigating when they got the call about the fight.
Green survived the shooting, but it took months for him to recover from his injuries. He filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the San Jose Police Department and the city of San Jose last year.
McNamara ended up resigning from the department last November just days before a text conversation he had with another officer came to light in which he bragged about the shooting and made disparaging, racist remarks about Green and violent threats against Green’s attorneys.
That conversation, which happened last June, included McNamara saying of Green, “N***a wanted to carry a gun in the Wild West. Not on my watch haha,” and “I hate black people more than I hate being a cop.”
He also sent this racist text message about Green’s attorney, Adanté Pointer, after a deposition about the shooting: “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!!!!!”
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