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.