(KRON) — Long chains of racist and homophobic text messages allegedly written by a former San Jose Police Department officer, Mike McNamara, were exposed in newly filed court documents.
McNamara is facing a federal civil rights lawsuit for the shooting of a Black man in 2022 who had just broken up a fight inside a crowded restaurant.
Half a dozen officers responded to La Victoria Taqueria on March 27, 2022, but McNamara was the only officer who decided to pull the trigger, attorneys said. College football star K’aun Green was shot four times and survived.
McNamara was allowed to resign from SJPD in November after earlier texts about the shooting came to light, attorneys said. In those, McNamara allegedly bragged about shooting Green, repeatedly used the N-word to describe the victim and his attorneys, and threatened to shoot the attorneys for accusing him of excessive force.
According to the lawsuit, text messages written by McNamara in June 2023 include one stating, “I hate black people more than I hate being a cop,” and another stating, “We gotta sculpt our bodies for the upcoming race war.”