Matthew Nutt’s lawyer pushed back against the prosecution’s description of a “vicious assault” of a handcuffed man, telling jurors that the former Antioch officer is being p…
PITTSBURG — In what has become the first criminal trial involving the scandal-plagued Antioch police department, jurors will soon decide the fate of a former officer charged with a misdemeanor for punching and kicking a handcuffed man during a 2022 arrest.
Nutt, the only officer to use force that day, “viciously assaulted” Robinson while he was cuffed and “utterly defenseless,” Assistant District Attorney Simon O’Connell told jurors in his opening statement Tuesday morning. Nutt was with two other officers that day, Sgt. Joshua Evans and Officer Dustin Dibble. Evans would later find himself in hot water that resulted with his ouster from the department, after revelations that he’d used the N-word and referred to himself as a “racist” cop in text messages to colleagues.
A third-party firm investigated the incident and found Nutt liable for multiple use-of-force policy violations. He was later fired, and the case was referred to the Contra Costa District Attorney, resulting in the misdemeanor charge.
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