A police official in Arizona has been placed on administrative leave after showing up armed to a student-led protest and provoking an altercation that led to the arrest of a teenage girl. The officer told fellow police who arrived on the scene that he attended the students’ immigration rights protest with the intent of acting as an agent provocateur, according to a news report.
Dusten Mullen, a sergeant with the Phoenix Police Department, has been suspended with pay pending an internal review of his conduct at a protest at Hamilton High School in Chandler, Arizona, on January 30, according to Phoenix Police Chief Matthew Giordano.
“As law enforcement professionals, we are held to higher standards of conduct — both in and out of uniform,” Giordano said. “When we fall short, we must be accountable, and we will not tolerate actions which undermine the trust the community has placed in the Department.”
Fox 10 Phoenix, the outlet to first identify Mullen, reported that Mullen told Chandler Police Department officers on the scene that he was there in the hopes of getting a rise out of the kids that would then allow the local cops to cuff them.
Cops in my town arrested parents that were handing out water to the students that walked out.
The officer told fellow police who arrived on the scene that he attended the students’ immigration rights protest with the intent of acting as an agent provocateur, according to a news report.
Dusten Mullen, a sergeant with the Phoenix Police Department, has been suspended with pay pending an internal review of his conduct at a protest at Hamilton High School in Chandler, Arizona, on January 30, according to Phoenix Police Chief Matthew Giordano.
So he picked a fight with a teenage girl, she gets arrested and he gets a paid vacation?
He doesn’t get the same charges?!
This is the type of stuff a Union can get you. The Police Unions in the US are the single greatest advertising for unions and collective bargaining on the planet. Everything you can think of to complain about the double standard with police, comes back to union negotiated requirements.
The reasoning behind the whole suspension with pay stuff is essentially to not punish officers who are falsely accused while investigations are under way. Let that sink in for a minute as you think about everyone arrested for a crime and waiting months or years for trials…
Police officers are falsely accused of things all the time. There are also a ton that are correctly accused and end up receiving no punishment. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Unions are supposed to protect workers from capitalism. But the police union has gone past that. How can we support unions in general, yet prevent them from going this route? (Asking seriously)
State employees don’t need a union.
I disagree, because the state is still operating within the bounds of capitalism. In a perfect world, state employees wouldn’t need a union. But for example, teachers are state employees. The meager protections that teachers have can largely be attributed to unions.
The bigger issue is that police largely work as state-sponsored union busters. Any job that involves union busting shouldn’t be allowed to have a union.
“As law enforcement professionals, we are held to higher standards of conduct — both in and out of uniform,”
Everyone laughed
The higher standard of conduct here being not OPENLY ADMITTING to being agents provocateurs when infiltrating protests to be agent provocateurs.
Which I 100% guarantee is why they are pissed off with him. Cause he undermined their efforts to falsely arrest people now, and in the future, because protestors in that area are now gonna be on much higher alert for infiltrators intent on sowing discord and undermining the cause.
As always, ACAB.
Why does it seem that police depts seemingly hire the dumbest fucks?
As always, ACAB.
No…
This is literally an example that some actually give a fuck:
Fox 10 Phoenix, the outlet to first identify Mullen, reported that Mullen told Chandler Police Department officers on the scene that he was there in the hopes of getting a rise out of the kids that would then allow the local cops to cuff them.
“My plan is legitimately to just let them all assault me and you guys arrest them all and I’ll keep it on film,” Mullen said, according to a police report obtained by the local TV news site. “I also have other people filming from a distance.”
The department didn’t release it, but the cop who included that in their report 100% put their career if not life on the line to put that in their report and likely was pressured not to mention any of it.
The cops didn’t release it, but that one cop putting it in a report is why it was there when journalists request the records.
It’s wild so many people don’t understand that immediately…
Like, can anyone explain how they thought this got in a police report if all cops supported this shit?
Doing his job reporting a crime that points at profound corruption is the bare minimum and doesn’t disprove ACAB.
If they were all bastards, why did none of them go along with the plan?
Like. 99% are bastards sure, but this is a rare case of some cops doing the right thing.
People not being able to understand that is very very concerning.
You’re right, a cop writing a report that includes some evidence of bad faith behaviors from other cops proves it! Remember what they say, One bad apple is bad but the rest are probably totally fine!
How do you think things would work out of good people gave up on any system and never tried to fix it from within?
Like, it seems painfully obvious…
But “give up and don’t try” rarely gets the result we want. The fastest way to fix policing is for good people to become cops.
Acting like one cop not burying evidence of blatant corruption means we should give cops a chance is hilarious.
Did you not notice how the cops didn’t follow this guy’s plan?
Like, they didn’t go along with it then document. They didn’t do it, and then still documented that’s what he was trying to…
What more did you want the responding cops to do in this scenario?
They arrested a teenager, they did follow this guy’s plan. No one, including the guy that reported it, prevented the teenager from getting arrested.
They arrested a teenager,
…
“My plan is legitimately to just let them all assault me and you guys arrest them all and I’ll keep it on film,” Mullen said, according to a police report obtained by the local TV news site. “I also have other people filming from a distance.”
Is the problem arthimitic or critical thinking?
How about not give the guy who did it a paid vacation?
Pending an investigation where another cop has already documented his behavior and zero cops took part in his plan…
Like, he should absolutely be held without bail.
But are you seriously arguing being charged with a crime should result in immediate termination?
Are you aware that if found guilty that pay is almost always recouped?
Like…
That’s how it should work.
I get being mad at cops in general, but this is legit a one in a million case where shit is happening exactly as it should. If you just want to blindless cir lejerk about how cops are pieces of shit as demographic, there’s plenty of places where the article isn’t about one single piece of shit and literally every other cop seemingly doing what they should.
Don’t just blindly rage about shit, if you do you’re fall for a charismatic twitch streamer who just wants eyeballs and views.
If you’re mad (and we should all be) at least be productive
Ofc it’s not all cops, the same as not all men are rapists or paedophiles. But it’s enough cops and enough men that it is a massive issue.
Ofc it’s not all cops
What do you think “ACAB” means?
Jfc. C’mon now. Use that brain of yours.
Literally the only way I can find out what you think it means, is by asking you…
It means:
All Cops Are Bastards
I just want to know what you think it means since you immediately followed that with:
Ofc it’s not all cops
Why isnt he arrested?
If he wasnt a cop, he’d be arrested.
And in an ideal world, any crime a cop commits would be an automatic felony for betrayal of the power invested in them and of the public trust.
Nah cops protect instigators all the time.
cause most the time its cops out of uniform doing the instigating.
The reason this came out is at least one cop did the right thing and put it in their report.
We don’t need to just prosecute the cop antagonizing protestors, but every cop who didn’t mention in their own report all the shit this guy was saying.
If they ommitted any of it to protect a cop, they’re not fit to be cops.
