A California officer was fired after sending “disgusting” text messages to a co-worker after he was involved in the shooting of a college football player, including one that said, “I hate black people.”
Former San Jose police officer Mark McNamara resigned after it was discovered that he wrote “disgusting text messages that showed racial bias,” Police Chief Anthony Mata told the Mercury News on Friday.
The message came to light during an investigation into McNamara’s involvement in the 2022 shooting of a 20-year-old black college student who had just broken up a fight.
Much of the text seemed to refer to the shooting last year in which then-officer McNamara shot football player K’aun Green at La Victoria Taqueria San José.
Green disarmed the other man involved in the fight but ended up being shot when police arrived and saw a gun in his hand, police said at the time.
In one text, dated the day after the shooting, McNamara wrote, “N— wanted to carry a gun in the Wild West,” with a second text reading, “Not on my watch haha.”
The racist message was discovered during the investigation into K’aun Green’s shooting. San Jose Police Department K’aun Green had just broken up a fight at La Victoria Taqueria San José when he was fatally shot. San Jose Police Department
In another message filled with the use of the “n-word,” McNamara mentioned the case, writing things like, “I”m sure the district attorney would charge me if I used excessive force, but he didn’t, because I didn’t use excessive force … I’ll shoot you too.”
In one message McNamara stated that the black man “should all bow to me and bring me gifts … Otherwise he will live a life of poverty and crime.”
Another message referred to him having court “for blowing up that idiot.”
In one message McNamara explicitly wrote, “I hate black people.”
Former San Jose cop Mark McNamara used the n-word in multiple text messages.Facebook
“There is zero tolerance for even one expression of racial bias in the San José Police Department,” Mata wrote.
About two dozen of the messages were discovered during the criminal investigation into the shooting and a separate administrative investigation was launched “immediately,” according to the chief.
“These messages came to light in the last few days and hours and the officer no longer works in the city,” Mata said.
McNamara, who was part of the department for six years, apparently sent racist messages to employees during the department.
The second employee, who was not immediately named, was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, Mata said.
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