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 the first criminal trial of an officer from the scandal-plagued Antioch Police Department, jurors will soon decide the fate of a former cop charged with a misdemeanor for punching and kicking a handcuffed man during a 2022 arrest.
“This is not a man escaping. This is not a man fighting. This is a man who is cornered and being beaten by a police officer,” O’Connell said. “This is unlawful. This is unnecessary. This is unjustified. And this is a crime.” Pifari described Nutt as a “protector” no less than a half-dozen times during her opening statement and said that he was on the lookout for armed robbery suspects when a Honda with no license plates containing Robinson and his brother drove by. Nutt pulled the Honda over and asked both occupants for IDs.
Robinson’s warrant was for conspiracy and firing a gun into an occupied dwelling in Santa Cruz County. He was later convicted and sentenced to county jail, as were other involved parties, O’Connell said. Since the incident with Nutt, Robinson has publicly spoken out,State won’t file charges against four Antioch police officers who fired 45 times in fatal shooting of agitated residentA federal suit says East Bay cop shot a man whose hands were raised.
But it was Evans who, after the incident, reviewed body camera footage of Nutt’s actions, thought “this does not look good” and referred the case to internal affairs, according to police reports.
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