Racist white American cop of California sacked after making derogatory text messages against Black-American people 

‘I hate Black people’: Mark McNamara in controversial police shooting fired over racist texts

By Edward Era Barbacena 

A San Jose, California, police officer was fired after an investigation revealed he had sent "disgusting text messages that demonstrated racial bias," San Jose Chief of Police Anthony Mata said in a release Friday.

The former officer, Mark McNamara, allegedly sent a number of racist text messages. The department’s internal affairs investigators discovered the messages during an unrelated criminal investigation into the officer, according to the release.

McNamara had been involved in an officer-related shooting at La Victoria Taqueria in downtown San Jose on March 27, 2022, according to the release. He was placed on routine administrative leave after the shooting, according to a police briefing.

Text messages shared by the department, with the names and phone numbers of the people involved partially redacted, were sent the day after the shooting and in June and July 2023.

Mata said that when the text messages were discovered, a separate investigation into McNamara was launched "immediately."

"I hate black people," one of the texts McNamara sent said, according to documents released by police. In another message, McNamara identifies himself as white.

He also used variations of the N-word multiple times, according to the set of messages police released.

A current employee of the police force who was found to be on the receiving end of some of McNamara's messages "engaged in other concerning dialogue with the former officer," Mata said in the release. That unnamed employee has been placed on administrative leave pending an internal investigation.

"There is zero tolerance for even a single expression of racial bias at the San Jose Police Department," Mata said in the statement, adding that "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."

Mata said this is the "promised accountability" resulting from his department being "proactive and transparent" in all investigations.