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OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — We’re studying extra a couple of rising controversy involving racist texts despatched by a now former San Jose police officer. The offensive texts had been despatched within the wake the capturing of a Black man final spring.
Now the identical Black man on the middle of the texting controversy spoke out along with his attorneys on Sunday.
“It hurts and scares me, figuring out how a lot hate an individual may have of their coronary heart,” stated 22-year-old Ok’Auan Inexperienced.
Inexperienced reacting to the newly revealed racist texts despatched by the previous San Jose police officer who shot him final spring exterior La Victoria Taqueria, the place Inexperienced says he disarmed somebody concerned in a combat.
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San Jose Police Chief Anthony Mata confirmed Friday that ofc. Mark McNamara is now not employed by SJPD after he allegedly despatched racist texts.
“I really feel just like the hero of the scenario that passed off on March 27,” Inexperienced stated.
Officer Mark McNamara shot Inexperienced as he was backing out of the restaurant with the confiscated gun.
In a newly surfaced textual content dated the day after the capturing, McNamara wrote to fellow officers.
“‘N**** wished to hold a gun within the Wild, Wild West. Not on my watch,'” learn civil rights lawyer Adante Pointer.
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The capturing despatched Inexperienced to the hospital, the place he confronted a protracted restoration. He was pressured to take a break from his soccer profession at Contra Costa Faculty. His lawyer, Pointer, says the racist texts are the ultimate insult.
“These had been disgusting textual content messages — vile textual content messages,” Pointer stated.
In a number of the texts, McNamara stated: “I am fairly positive the district lawyer would have charged me if I used extreme drive, however she did not, as a result of I did not use extreme drive, I will shoot you too.”
McNamara stated of Inexperienced’s authorized workforce, texting: “They need to all be bowing to me and bringing me items, in any other case he would have lived a lifetime of poverty and crime.”
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In one other textual content writing that he hates Black folks.
McNamara resigned from the SJPD final week after texts surfaced.
Legal professionals are demanding McNamara be charged criminally with a hate crime and be decertified as a police officer.
“California’s police officer’s affiliation must decertify McNamara so he can by no means convey his racist ideas to reveal in the neighborhood once more,” Pointer stated.
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“I by no means thought someone would have that a lot hatred of their coronary heart that they’d wish to kill due to what I seem like,” Inexperienced stated.
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan says his metropolis has a zero tolerance for racial bias.
“We aren’t going to tolerate racism. We’re going to proceed working laborious daily to construct a tradition of the utmost respect and professionalism in our group,” Mahan stated.
Inexperienced says he is transferring ahead, hoping to realize his dream in soccer.
“I Hope to play within the NFL,” he stated.
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