Updated as of 11/25/2023 at 3:30 p.m. ET
San Jose Officer Mark McNamara was out of a job after his racist texts were exposed. Now, he just took an even bigger L getting blacklisted from working in law enforcement.
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Police Chief Anthony Mata previously recommended the ex-cop get banned from policing and it seems his wish came true. A KTVU report revealed McNamara indeed made the state’s decertification list on the Peace Officer Certification Actions (POST) website this week. He was charged with “resigning upon pending investigation/demonstrating bias” which is translation for “jumped ship after he was caught using the N-word and saying he hates Black people.”
Boom! Six years of policing down the drain and now no other department will bat an eye at him moving forward. Though, his certification is under “temporary” suspension, according to The San Fransisco Chronicle. Either way, he’s still out of a job.
Now, Chief Mata plans to collaborate with the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office to look over any case McNamara put his paws on - including that of K’aun Green. Green was shot and injured by McNamara and his colleagues and was also the target of the racist messages.
McNamara was placed under an internal investigation in connection to a criminal matter when his messages were exposed, according to Chief Anthony Mata. Investigators released a 10-page long document of McNamara’s message threads containing racial slurs and honestly, a glimpse into how he really feels about Black people. (I fixed the typos for y’all.)
“The other day this n—— lawyer is like Mr. McNamara, you know we can still find you guilty of excessive force right? Think I give a f-ck what y’all n—- think?! I’ll shoot you too!” read one text.
“There was like 65 African lookin motherf-ckers in there. All just mean mugging … They should be bowing to me and bringing me gifts since I saved a fellow n—- by making him rich as f-ck. Otherwise he would’ve lived a life of poverty and crime,” read another.
Among the rest of the racist junk, McNamara questioned why Black people “don’t have any sense,” dismissed the chances of him being charged with excessive force and said blatantly, “I hate Black people.”
The probe into his foul words led him to take the easy way out and resign, per the department.
Read the chief’s reaction from his statement:
There is zero tolerance for even a single expression of racial bias at the San José Police Department. The messages were found due to the expansion of our Internal Affairs Unit’s efforts to thoroughly investigate all questionable conduct and is why we have made investments in a new early warning system. I made it clear last year when I expanded our investigation systems that we would be proactive and transparent in identifying patterns of policy violations. This is the promised accountability resulting from that work.
If any employee’s racial bias rears its ugly head, rest assured that I will take immediate action to ensure they are not part of this organization. I am extremely proud of the 99.9% of officers whose achievements and dedication to this community are unmatched and I will not let the actions of a few officers cloud the extraordinary work being done in our city every day.
Oh, you must be wondering where all these court references are coming from in McNamara’s messages. He was basically live-tweeting the moment he was due in civil court for the shooting of K’aun Green, that 21-year-old football player who was shot by police while trying to break up a bar fight last year.
“N— wanted to carry a gun in the Wild West. Not on my watch haha,” read one of McNamara’s texts, seemingly in reference to the gun Green confiscated to disarm one of the brawlers. It was the revealing of his shooter’s racial bias that brought Green to speak out again since the 2022 incident.
“It pains me to know how much hate someone has in their heart,” Green said via KTVU. “I went in there to help, and I came out of there needing help [and] almost [got] killed.”
His attorneys filed a civil rights lawsuit against the SJPD but said in a press conference that the messages warrant attempted murder and hate crime charges. Chief Mata said no criminal charges are anticipated to be filed as a result of the messages.
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