Former Antioch Officer Matthew Nutt, who was fired over the same incident, has not been charged with assaulting a man during a July 2022 traffic stop.
ANTIOCH — In the latest scandal to engulf the city’s beleaguered police department, a former officer has been charged with assaulting a man during a July 2022 traffic stop, court records show.
Matthew Nutt, who was fired from the Antioch police department over the same incident, was charged Tuesday with a single misdemeanor count of an officer unnecessarily assaulting a person. He has not yet entered a plea but is scheduled to do so on July 18. The Contra Costa District Attorney’s office started investigating Nutt earlier this year. He appealed his termination from the department but an arbiter upheld it last April.
This controversy is only the latest to hit the Antioch Police Department, which made national headlines last month over revelations that dozens of officers had communicated using racist, homophobic and sexist text messages and memes, sometimes making light of on-duty violence or talking about adding fake confessions to arrest reports.
Nutt is not a subject of the FBI probe, but his name did briefly come up in publicized reports as one of the officers who received offensive messages. Specifically, a DA senior inspector wrote that Nutt was one of more than a dozen officers who received a text from Officer John Ramirez offering a prime rib dinner to any officer who shot Mayor Lamar Thorpe with a non-lethal projectile during a 2020 protest over the George Floyd murder.
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