National City police officer suspended for alleged racist comments

CBS 8

A woman who said she is the officer’s former stepdaughter identified him as Officer Nick Matthews.

NATIONAL CITY, Calif. — Content warning: The social media posts in this story contain racial slurs and expletives and may not be appropriate for all viewers. 

An officer with the National City Police Department was under investigation Wednesday for allegedly making racist statements in a private text-message exchange that wound up becoming public.

According to the NCPD, the officer will be on administrative leave pending the results of an in-house probe into the purported inappropriate communications, which were made to a member of his family before being posted on social media by a woman who said she is the officer’s former stepdaughter, Miranda Dykes.