San Jose officer resigned after police released racist text messages where he referenced a 2022 incident in which he shot a 20-year-old Black college student.
A San Jose police officer has resigned after the police department found numerous "disgusting text messages that demonstrated racial bias," according to aby the San Jose Police Department . The text messages related to a 2022 shooting incident in which the officer shot a college football player who had wrestled a gun from a perpetrator during a fight in a local taqueria.
The other employee, who has not been identified by the SJPD, was immediately placed onadministrative leave pending an internal investigation, according to the statement. "I'm still processing," Green, now 22, said on Sunday during a press conference, speaking publicly for the first time since the text messages were released. "I never thought somebody could just have that much hatred in their heart to where they would want to kill me just 'cause of what I look like."
Green, who was a college football player at Contra Costa College and still dreams of a career in the NFL, said during the press conference he had to sit out the entire 2022 football season and has been suffering from depression since the shooting.
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