If you thought this former San Jose, Calif. officer’s “I hate Black people” texts were bad, just hold onto your seat. In the pending lawsuit against him, he was exposed for 300 additional racist text threads and accused of destroying some of them.
Ex-San Jose Officer Mark McNamara has been absolutely grilled by the attorneys for K’aun Green, a Black college student shot and injured by McNamara after breaking up a bar fight. McNamara was previously exposed for a series of racist text messages he sent during depositions which pretty much declared his hatred for Black people and touted police violence against them as a badge of honor.
Following a motion filed by Green’s attorneys, they pulled another slew of racist messages from McNamara’s phone records dated to just this past summer. Just take a look at these excerpts from the filing:
“Yo nigga, what are your pronouns??? Mine are n***a, and n***er.”
“N***a now isn’t the time for drink! We gotta sculpt our bodies for the upcoming race war.”
“Another n***a year older.”
“You didn’t wanna arrest them for DWB [Driving While Black]”
“I hate black people more than I hate being a cop.”
There were even more messages, but I’ll save you the headache.
The reason for this latest exposé was because Green’s attorneys sought to place a sanction on McNamara, accusing him of intentionally purging his social media which potentially contained more racist trash.
Read more from the court filing:
On November 14, 2023, Plaintiff served Defendant McNamara with Rule 34 Requests for Production of Documents, No. 1-2 that specifically requested social media messages and posts that related to racial bias. (Ex. 2 – Pltf RPD 1). On November 16, 2023, Plaintiff filed a Third Amended Complaint with a Ralph Act Claim that explicitly alleged Defendant McNamara’s racial bias against African Americans motivated him to shoot Plaintiff citing to Defendant
McNamara’s electronic messages about race. On December 15, 2023, Defendant McNamara belatedly served discovery responses claiming that he deleted his Facebook and Instagram accounts “due to hate messages and threats he received.”
Back in 2022, McNamara and his former colleagues arrived at a restaurant after reports of a scuffle. Surveillance camera footage showed Green was apprehended at the door of the establishment while holding a firearm in his hand after disarming the patron who allegedly started the fight. However, McNamara shot Green four times within just seconds of ordering him to drop the gun.
Green filed a federal lawsuit against the officer, the department and the city of San Jose. Upon the first batch of racist messages, McNamara resigned from the department and was blacklisted from policing after his name appeared on California’s decertification list.