The offensive texts were sent in the wake the shooting of a Black man last spring by an SJPD officer. Now, the same Black man at the center of the texting controversy spoke out with his attorneys on Sunday.
Green reacting to the newly revealed racist texts sent by the former San Jose police officer who shot him last spring outside La Victoria Taqueria, where Green says he disarmed someone involved in a fight.
“I feel like the hero of the situation that took place on March 27,” Green said.
Officer Mark McNamara shot Green as he was backing out of the restaurant with the confiscated gun.
In a newly surfaced text dated the day after the shooting, McNamara wrote to fellow officers.
“‘N**** wanted to carry a gun in the Wild, Wild West. Not on my watch,’” read civil rights attorney Adante Pointer.
Fucking pig shot him in the back and tried to act the hero to his nazi buddies.
Fucking pig shot him in the back and tried to act the hero to his nazi buddies.