An ex-San Jose police officer who resigned after his police chief released 10 pages of racist text messages, including one where he declared, “I hate Black people,” is facing a lawsuit that was filed after he shot one of the Black people that he hates in 2022. Now, the former cop, Mark McNamara, is asking a judge to move his case 300 miles away from Santa Clara County, where his attorneys argue he can’t get a fair trial due to the negative attention he has gotten in the media.
According to KTVU, McNamara’s attorney cited in court filings 12 print and TV news stories that were reported on the KKKop who shot K’aun Green, a Black man who reportedly walked outside of a bar holding a gun he had wrestled away from a patron who was involved in a physical confrontation with other patrons. Apparently, McNamara is afraid a bigot in blue will be treated as unfairly in a local courtroom as he likely treated every Black citizen he encountered while on patrol.
From KTVU:
Last month, McNamara’s attorney, Susan Coleman, asked U.S. District Court Nathaneal M. Cousins to move his upcoming civil trial to the Eureka-McKinleyville area, just south of the Oregon border.
In an opposing motion, attorneys for K’aun Green, a Black college football player whom McNamara shot and injured on the steps of a taqueria two years ago, said there is no need to move the trial. The stories have not been voluminous and all have been factually accurate.
“There’s no way this should be granted,” Green’s attorney, Adante Pointer, said on Tuesday.
Another attorney for the plaintiff, Angel Alexander, noted that McNamara’s legal team appears to be blaming the media for reporting a story presented to the media by the defendant’s own former police chief.
“The irony is that the police chief released this in a press conference to the press, and then, in turn, the city is now blaming the press for the coverage of this story, which the police broke…
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