San Jose Police Officers’ Association President Steve Slack said the text message investigation “is a disconcerting reminder that not everyone has the moral compass necessary to be in the law enforcement profession … This behavior is beyond unacceptable, and we condemn it in the strongest possible terms.”Ĭopyright 2023 The Associated Press. Other messages from June 2023 appear to have been sent while McNamara was being interviewed by the City Attorney’s Office and Green’s legal team, which sued the city over the shooting.Īdanté Pointer, whose firm Lawyers for the People is representing Green, said the messages affirmed to him that the shooting of his client “was driven by racial animus.”Ĭontact information for McNamara could not be found Sunday. In a text message dated the day after the shooting, McNamara appears to refer to Green with a racial slur. Green disarmed one of the people in the fight, and was backing out of the front door, holding a confiscated handgun in the air, when he was shot, according to police. Casino giant MGM Resorts told federal regulators it might pay up to 800 million to settle liability lawsuits stemming from the 2017 mass shooting in Las. Initial reports are a glass door shattered causing a loud noise which startled people in the valet area. McNamara shot and wounded Green, who is Black, after Green appeared to have quelled a fight that broke out inside an eatery near San Jose State University. Reports of a shooting near the MGM tonight are unfounded.
